Blue Note
131 West 3rd Street | Greenwich Village | built 1930
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- 1981
Danny Bensusan opens the Blue Note jazz club
Danny Bensusan opened the original Blue Note at 131 West 3rd Street. Musicians who have played the club include Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson, Lionel Hampton, Ray Charles and the Modern Jazz Quartet.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1988
The Blue Note opens its first location abroad, in Tokyo
Seven years after Danny Bensusan opens the Greenwich Village club, the Blue Note brand expands overseas with a room in Tokyo. Osaka and Fukuoka locations follow in 1990, and Milan opens in 2003, launching a franchise that eventually reaches Beijing, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, and Hawaii. The West 3rd Street club remains the flagship as the name grows into an international chain of jazz rooms.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1990
Oscar Peterson's quartet records a live album at the Blue Note
On March 17, 1990, the pianist Oscar Peterson, with guitarist Herb Ellis, bassist Ray Brown and drummer Bobby Durham, recorded a set at the club that Telarc issued in 1991 as Saturday Night at the Blue Note. It followed the 1990 release Live at the Blue Note and preceded Last Call at the Blue Note in 1992.
“Saturday Night at the Blue Note is a 1991 live album by Oscar Peterson. Recorded March 17, 1990, The Blue Note, New York City.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2001
The Blue Note starts its own live record label
The club founded Half Note Records in 2001 to release live recordings made at the Blue Note. Artists who have recorded live albums there include James Carter, Avishai Cohen, Elvin Jones and Kenny Garrett. The Blue Note had begun opening clubs abroad in 1988 with Blue Note Tokyo.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2011
The Blue Note marks its 30th anniversary with its first jazz festival
Throughout June 2011 the club hosted the first Blue Note Jazz Festival, with more than 80 shows at its West 3rd Street home and at other venues around the city. The lineup stretched past jazz to blues, funk, R&B, gospel and world music, and the 90-year-old pianist Dave Brubeck came back for three performances. Danny Bensusan said musicians return because the room gives them closeness with the audience.
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