Jazz clubs in NYC
Jazz clubs are secular houses of worship, where audiences gather to witness musicians openly exhibit their emotions, skill, and life experiences. The clubs have their own ambience, dancing in musicians’ unblemished truth. The music swings, it jumps, it might hit you in the gut, but damn—what a hip happening. Call it what you want, good engaging music, all enthralling!
Although Bill’s Place opened in 2006, the brownstone stands in memorial salute to “Swing Street,” that 1920s strip between Lenox and Seventh Avenues where speakeasies in basement joints lined both sides of the street. The joints where Billie Holiday sang her young heart out, Willie “the Lion” Smith performed as house pianist, and Duke Ellington could often be seen just hanging. You are welcome to bring your own brown bag…BYOBB.
Further downtown, Max Gordon opened the Village Vanguard in 1935, where he presented folk music and those beat poetry cats. As time drifted into 1957, it became a jazz house that has since journeyed into a 21st-century jazz mecca.
HARLEM JAZZ CLUBS
Bill’s Place 148 W. 133rd Street (Open Friday–Saturday) 212-281-0777 billsplaceharlem.com
Room 623 Harlem’s Speakeasy Jazz Club 271 W. 119th Street (Open Wednesdays, Fridays, Sundays) 212-589-8979 room623.com
The Shrine 2271 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd. (World music, jazz) 212-690-7807 shrinenyc.com
New Amsterdam Musical Association 107 W. 130th Street (Live jazz and open mic, jam on Monday nights) 212-281-1350 namaharlem.wixsite.com
American Legion Post 398 248 W. 132nd Street (Live jazz on Sundays) 212-283-9701 Legion.org
Marjorie Eliot Parlor Entertainment Jazz (Open on Sundays) 555 Edgecombe Ave. 212-781-6595 Harlemonestop.com
Silvana Bistro 300 W. 116th Street (Live jazz and world music) (Downstairs) 646-692-4935 Silvana-nyc.com
Smoke Jazz & Supper club 2751 Broadway 212-864-6662 Smokejazz.com
The Porch 750A St. Nicholas Avenue 646-895-9004 theporchnyc.com
MANHATTAN
Dizzy’s Jazz Club 33 W. 60th Street 212-258-9595 2023Jazz.org
Jazz at Lincoln Center Broadway at 60th Street 212-258-9800 Jazz.org
Django Jazz Club & Restaurant 2 Avenue of the Americas 212-519-6649 Thedjangonyc.com
Birdland Jazz Club 310 W. 44th Street 212-5813080 Birdlandjazz.com
Blue Note Jazz Club 131 W. 3rd Street 212-475-8592 Bluenotejazz.com
The Jazz Gallery 1160 Broadway 5th floor/entrance on 27th Street info@jazzgallery.org
Zinc Bar 82 West 3rd Street 212-477-9462 info@zincjazz.com
The Stone 55 W. 13rd Street (near 6th Avenue) Avant garde jazz (Music Wednesday–Saturday) 917-474-0018 thestonenyc.com
Village Vanguard 178 7th Avenue South 212-255-4037 villagevanguard.com
Mezzrow Jazz Club 163 W.10th Street 646-476-4346 smallslive.com/mezzrow/
Small’s Jazz Club 183 W. 10th Street 646-476-4346 Smallslive.com
Nublu 151 Avenue C (between 9th and 10th Streets) 646-546-5206 Nublu.net
Arthur’s Tavern 57 Grove Street 212-414-4314 Arthurstavern.nyc
BROOKLYN
Sista’s Place 456 Nostrand Avenue 718-398-1766 Sistasplace.org
Orinthology Jazz Club 6 Suydam Street 917-231-4766 Orinthologyjazzclub.com
Bar LunAtico 486 Halsey Street, Bed-Stuy 718-513-0339 Barlunatico.com
Bar Bayeaux 1066 Nostrand Ave 347-533-7845 Barbayeaux.com
Barbes 376 9th Street, Park Slope 347-422-0248 Barbesbrooklyn.com
The Brownstone Jazz 107 Macon Street 917-704-9237 (Open Friday–Sunday) brownstonejazz.business.site
Wilson Live 637 Wilson Avenue wilsonlivebk.com
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