Opened in 2005 and run by the avant-garde saxophonist, composer and organizer John Zorn, the Stone operated out of a small room in Alphabet City until 2018, when he relocated it to a glass-box theater at the New School. ![]() Mezzrow, its sister club a block away, offers a more rarefied version of the same, with smaller bands centered around a 1923 Steinway piano.ĥ5 West 13th Street, Manhattan. If you’re looking for a dimly lit basement where bands still play the standards nightly, the drummers swing their tails off, and the jam sessions stretch far into the a.m., you’ve found it in Smalls. Today, their post-bop acolytes play every weekend and some weeknights. This Harlem supper club inhabits the same location as its midcentury namesake, where bebop’s inventors performed in the 1940s. Minton’sĢ06 West 118th Street, Manhattan. A gig on the Gallery’s red-curtained stage is a rite of passage for a certain strain of up-and-coming bandleaders. Today’s (nonprofit) version converts a warren of office space - up a rickety elevator, in a building just off Madison Square Park - into a handsome two-room venue. The stage is backed by windows overlooking Columbus Circle at this Jazz at Lincoln Center hub, where the genre’s straight-ahead heavy hitters preside on a nightly basis.ġ160 Broadway, Fifth Floor, Manhattan .Ī guardian of New York tradition, the Jazz Gallery inherits its name from a short-lived East Village club dating to the late 1950s. ![]() Dizzy’s Clubġ0 Columbus Circle, Fifth Floor, Manhattan /dizzys-club. It consistently hosts some of the world’s most popular jazz and crossover acts: Robert Glasper, Stanley Clarke and Chris Botti are all regular performers. In the heart of Greenwich Village nightlife, this tightly packed club is the flagship venue in a global chain of Blue Note establishments. Blue Noteġ31 West Third Street, Manhattan. Today, Birdland presents members of jazz’s elite every night of the week, including a longtime Sunday-night residency by the top-notch Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble. Named for Charlie Parker, the saxophone giant known as Yardbird, this is actually the third iteration of an iconic club that first opened off West 52nd Street in the late 1950s. The party rages at all times of the year groups hanging outdoors can rent firepits in the winter.ģ15 West 44th Street, Manhattan. Nowadaysĥ6-06 Cooper Avenue, Queens nowadays.nyc.ĭ.J.s spin house, techno and other electronic music late into the night at this expansive, outdoor-indoor dance complex in Ridgewood. But the basement does have private rooms for rent, with their own sound systems and light displays. ![]() ![]() Nebula hosts EDM parties with a focus on the dance floor, rather than bottle service. The ceilings are 27 feet high, and all told there’s more than 10,000 feet of space across three floors at this newish Times Square club. The venue’s calendar has diversified, but its focus is still on indie bands. Opened in the heart of Williamsburg during the 2000s indie-rock boom, MHOW soon became a standard-bearer for 21st-century rock clubs of its size (the capacity is roughly 600). Music Hall of WilliamsburgĦ6 North Sixth Street, Brooklyn. At this smallish club on the Lower East Side, bookings lean toward rising rock and indie bands.
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