OAKLAND — Many of the self-proclaimed “jazz cats” that frequent the Birdland Jazzista Social Club on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard reminisce about the East Bay’s rich jazz history. They rattle off names of former spots stretching from Berkeley to Seventh Street in West Oakland, where musicians could jam late into the night without the stuffy constraints felt in upscale venues.

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Birdland will join the ranks of shuttered Oakland jazz clubs after its final jam session Monday night.

Birdland, which is run by volunteers and has a BYOB policy, established itself as a no-frills hotspot attracting amateur and professional musicians across the Bay Area. It was also known for the hundreds of handmade birdhouses lining the building’s walls both inside and out.

Despite drawing musical talent to its jam nights, Birdland’s founder Michael Parayno said he struggled to fill seats consistently. The financial strain led Parayno in December to make this month Birdland’s last. He blamed the low turnout on an aging fan base and the influx of young wealthy residents who aren’t interested in live jazz and blues.

Birdland originated in 2010 as a raucous live jazz party run out of Parayno’s house in Berkeley. He converted his garage into a live venue with electrical wiring rigged with a kill switch to fool police when they routinely showed up. Parayno called the makeshift jazz club Birdland for the thousands of birdhouses he built, sold and used for decoration.

After several years of continuous run-ins with the city over noise and permits, Parayno took Birdland and hundreds of his birdhouses to its current space in Oakland, a former cocktail lounge near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and 43rd Street. The move didn’t bode well for business.

“A lot of our supporters from our Berkeley days didn’t follow us down here,” Parayno said.

Birdland’s imminent closure also signals the death of Parayno’s vision to create a jazz district in the north Oakland neighborhood. He enlisted several neighboring businesses to host jazz acts once a month, hoping to enlighten the gentrifying neighborhood with the history of jazz and its African-American roots. He called his effort “jazzification.”

Parayno noted the music scene in Oakland lacks other small “do-it-yourself” spaces dedicated solely to jazz.

Shara Abrahamian, a pianist and vocalist, said he will miss Birdland because it allowed him to be a computer scientist by day and jazz musician by night.

“I hope we can replace the warmth that I’ve felt here at Birdland,” Abrahamian said outside the club after singing at a recent jam session.