Blue Note (New York)

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Blue Note in Greenwich Village

Blue Note is a jazz club in Greenwich Village of New York City , which was founded in 1981 by Danny Bensusan (131 West 3rd Street). The club came into being after a period of "mass extinction" of New York jazz clubs. Many famous jazz greats such as Sarah Vaughan , Dizzy Gillespie , Ray Brown , Oscar Peterson , Lionel Hampton , Chick Corea , Herbie Hancock , Tito Puente and Charles Lloyd , who had previously avoided appearances in jazz clubs, performed here. The club is also a restaurant and is now also a tourist attraction. Several live albums have been made in the club, e. B. by Oscar Peterson, Herbie Mann or Keith Jarrett .

Bensusan is an Israeli from Jaffa, born in 1949, who has lived in New York since 1969 and previously ran a Jewish restaurant and disco. In his own words, he came to jazz with no musical "priorities" when he recognized in the early 1980s that the disco wave was subsiding and that there was a need for something new. He built up a whole “empire” around the Blue Note, with branches in Milan (2003) and Japan ( Tokyo 1988, Nagoya 2002, Osaka 1990). Bensusan also owns other clubs in New York, such as the 1996 founded "BB King" in Times Square with soul music and the Highline Ballroom for " Indie Rock ", and a record label "Blue Note Live".

In addition to the main concerts at 8 p.m. and 10.30 p.m., there will be performances by local musicians (jazz, rhythm and blues , hip-hop , soul , funk ) on Friday and Saturday at 0.30 a.m. (“Late Night Groove”) and on Mondays (“Monday Night Series” “) For young jazz musicians.

The name is reminiscent of the Blue Notes or the famous jazz label Blue Note Records , with which it has nothing to do with. There were jazz clubs with this name before. B. Blue Note in Paris .

Web links

Commons : Blue Note  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ The emperor of jazz from Jaffa ( Memento of April 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Haaretz , August 1, 2007
  2. ↑ Bensusan, which was reacting to a changing jazz market, got the popular name from BB King , who received a small investment for it.

Coordinates: 40 ° 43 '51.2 "  N , 74 ° 0' 2.7"  W.