Smalls (jazz club)

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The drummer Robert Rucker in the Smalls Jazzclub, June 28, 2011

The Smalls is a New York jazz club that was founded in 1994. Numerous recordings of the concerts appear on the SmallsLive label .

The Smalls , located at 183 West 10th Street (corner of Seventh Avenue South) in Greenwich Village of Manhattan is one of the famous venues of jazz in since its founding in 1994, New York City . Mitchell Borden started it just a few blocks from the Village Vanguard , in a room in the basement of a building in the West Village. In the early years, the artists performing there included young musicians such as Ehud Asherie , Gilad Hekselman , Ari Hoenig , Kurt Rosenwinkel , Avishai Cohen , Guillermo Klein , Mark Turner , Zaid Nasser , Sacha Perry and Jason Lindner (whose big band performed regularly in Smalls ) , as well as jazz veterans Lou Donaldson , Tommy Turrentine and Frank Hewitt . In sharp contrast to Manhattan's mostly tourist-oriented jazz clubs with gastronomy and mandatory consumption, the original Smalls was characterized by its "underground" character: affordable entry price of $ 10, self-catering for guests, especially with alcohol, and music until 6:00 am O'clock in the morning. The Smalls did not have a license to serve alcohol when it opened.

Mitch at the box office 1998

Borden had to close the club in 2003 and opened a new club called Fat Cat ; however, the strong demand for the Club Smalls , after briefly a Brazilian music venue, led to its reopening in 2005. The club is now run by Borden and Lee Kostrinsky. Affiliated with the club are the Mezzrow jazz club as well as the Smalls Records and SmallsLive labels , on which recordings by Cyrille Aimée , Omer Avital , Bruce Barth , Seamus Blake , Peter Bernstein , Jimmy Cobb , Steve Davis , Wayne Escoffery , Joel Frahm , Kevin Hays , Gilad Hekselman , Ethan Iverson , Jazz Incorporated ( Jeremy Pelt , Anthony Wonsey , Louis Hayes ), David Kikoski , Ryan Kisor , Bill Mobley , Tim Ries , Jim Rotondi and Neal Smith appeared.

In the 1990s, some jazz albums with live recordings from Smalls were also released on Impulse Records .

The Smalls is not to be confused with Small's Paradise , a jazz club that existed from the 1920s to the 1980s .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jazz Underground: Live at Smalls at Discogs
  2. ↑ Till Brönner: The most beautiful jazz clubs. Zeit Magazin No. 49, November 24, 2016, p. 82
  3. ^ Smalls Jazz Club Returns to West Village, NY Curbed
  4. ↑ Smalls Records website ( memento of the original from February 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.smallsrecords.com
  5. ↑ SmallsLive , on Discogs

Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′ 4 "  N , 74 ° 0 ′ 10"  W.