Smoke (jazz club)
Smoke ( Smoke Jazz & Supper Club ) is a jazz club in New York City .
The Smoke Jazz & Supper Club is located on Broadway in the Upper West Side of Manhattan (2751 Broadway, New York, NY 10025). It was founded in 1999 on the premises of the former Augie's Jazz Bar (1976-98). Paul Auster , who was a frequent guest at Augie's , had written the screenplay for the feature film Smoke (1995); the new owners Paul Stache and Frank J. Christopher therefore named their new club Smoke .
Concerts with well-known groups (three sets each) take place in the club seven evenings a week; in the late evening there is also another concert with local bands (or a session) for which no admission has to be paid. There is a brunch concert on Sundays . From 2000 concert recordings were made there. a. by David Berkman , Freddie Bryant , Jimmy Cobb , Wayne Escoffery , Harold Mabern ( Right On Time , 2013), Jeremy Pelt ; further recordings (including by Cyrus Chestnut , Joe Farnsworth , Louis Hayes , Javon Jackson , Eric Reed , Eddie Henderson , Peter Bernstein ) or Harold Mabern's studio album To Love and Be Loved were released on the club's own label Smoke Sessions Records.
Discographic notes
- Freddie Bryant & Kaleidoscope: Live at Smoke (Fresh Sound), u. a. with Chris Cheek
- One for All: Live at Smoke, Vol. 1 ( Criss Cross Jazz , 2001), with Jim Rotondi , Steve Davis , Eric Alexander , David Hazeltine , Peter Washington , Joe Farnsworth
- Satoshi Inoue / Kiyoshi Kitagawa : Live at Smoke (What's New, 2002)
- The Uptown Quintet: Live in New York (Cellar Live, 2004), u. a. with Ryan Kisor
- The Smoke Sessions (Smoke Jazz, 2005-2009), u. a. with Bruce Barth , Steve Turre , Cedar Walton
- Eric Alexander & Vincent Herring : The Battle - Live at Smoke (HighNote, 2005), with Mike LeDonne , John Webber , Carl Allen
- Mike LeDonne: On Fire (Savant, 2006) with Eric Alexander, Peter Bernstein, Joe Farnsworth
- Wayne Escoffery: Veneration (Savant, 2006), with Joe Locke , Hans Glawischnig , Lewis Nash
- David Berkman: Live at Smoke (Challenge, 2006), with Jimmy Greene , Ed Howard , Ted Poor
- Jeremy Pelt: Shock Value: Live at Smoke (Maxjazz, 2007), with Frank LoCrasto, Al Street, Gavin Fallow, Dana Hawkins, Becca Stevens
- The Smoke Sessions (Smoke Jazz, 2009), with Eddie Henderson , Steve Turre , Mike LeDonne, John Webber, Joe Farnsworth
- Vincent Herring / Cyrus Chestnut / Brandi Disterheft / Joe Farnsworth: The Uptown Shuffle (Smoke Sessions, 2013)
- Javon Jackson: Expression (Smoke Sessions7, 2013), with Orrin Evans , Corcoran Holt , McClenty Hunter
- Eric Reed: Groovewise (Smoke Sessions, 2013), with Seamus Blake , Ben Williams , Gregory Hutchinson
- David Hazeltine / Seamus Blake / David Williams / Joe Farnsworth: For All We Know (Smoke Sessions, 2013)
- Cyrus Chestnut: Midnight Melodies (Smoke Sessions, 2013), with Curtis Lundy , Victor Lewis
- Good Fellows USA and Japan: Live at Smoke (Monky's, 2014), with Vincent Herring, Eric Alexander, Toru Dodo , Motoi Kanamori , Yoichi Kobayashi