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on Columbus Circle perched worth checking out is the 75 years the near-legendary
above Central Park. If you’re Sidewalk Café, with its wide Wednesday Amateur Nights
in New York in January, don’t range of emerging performers have been responsible for
miss the annual NYC Winter and Postscrypt Coffeehouse, discovering and launching
Jazzfest, where famous jazz run by Columbia University stars, including the much-loved
acts play at various clubs students. In Brooklyn, the James Brown and Dionne
around Manhattan. tiny Jalopy Theatre and Warwick. Also in Harlem,
School of Music offers Shrine features Afro-beat,
low-key folk, traditional jazz, World Music and jazz.
Folk and Country Music
international music and The B.B. King’s Blues Club
Folk, rock music, and R&B blues, and even has its own lineup often features legendary
(rhythm and blues) can be radio station. jazz and gospel performers.
found at the rather faded Don’t miss “After Work Fridays”
Bitter End, which once show- Blues, Soul, and at SOB’s (Sounds of Brazil), a
cased James Taylor and Joni world music club specializing
Mitchell but now special izes in World Music in Afro-Latin rhythms.
promising new talent (Lady For blues, soul, and world The blues artists that appear
Gaga got started here in 2007), music, options include the at Terra Blues range from
as does the Lower East Side’s Apollo Theater in Harlem authentic Chicago acoustic
Rockwood Music Hall. Also (see p224). For more than players to modern blues acts.

DIRECTORY
Music Venues Bowery Ballroom Café Carlyle Folk and
6 Delancey St. Map 4 F3. 95 E 76th St. Map 17 A5. Country Music
Barclays Center Tel (212) 533-2111. Tel (212) 744-1600.
620 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn. Bitter End
Map 23 B4. Knitting Factory Cotton Club 147 Bleecker St. Map 4 E3.
Tel (917) 618-6100. 361 Metropolitan Ave, 656 W 125th St. Map 22 Tel (212) 673-7030.
Brooklyn. F2. Tel (212) 663-7980.
Beacon Theater Tel (347) 529-6696. Jalopy Theatre &
2124 Broadway. Map 15 Iridium School of Music
C5. Tel (212) 465-6500. Le Poisson Rouge 1650 Broadway. Map 12 315 Columbia St,
158 Bleecker St. Map 4 D3. Brooklyn. Map 23 A4.
Central Park Tel (212) 505-3473. D2. Tel (212) 582-2121. Tel (718) 395-3214.
SummerStage Jazz at
Rumsey Playfield. Mercury Lincoln Center Postcrypt Coffeehouse
Map 12 F1. Lounge 150 W 65th St. Map 11 C2. 2098 Broadway. Map 211
Tel (212) 360-2777. 217 E Houston St. Map 5 Tel (212) 258-9800. C1. ∑ blogs.cuit.
A3. Tel (212 260-4700). columbia.edu/
Hammerstein Jazz Standard postcrypt.
Ballroom Music Hall of 116 E 27th St. Map 9 A3
311 W 34th St. Map 8 D2. Williamsburg Tel (212) 576-2232. Rockwood Music Hall
Tel (212) 279-7740. 66 N 6th St. Map 6 F1. 196 Allen St. Map 5 A3.
Tel (718) 486-5400. Minton’s Tel (212) 477-4155.
Madison Square
Garden The Rock Shop 206 W 118th St. Map 21 Sidewalk Café
7th Ave & 33rd St. Map 249 Fourth Ave, Gowanus, A3. Tel (212) 243-2222. 94 Ave A. Map 5 B2.
8 E2. Tel (212) 465-6741. Brooklyn. Map 23 B4. NYC Winter Jazzfest Tel (212) 473-7373.
Tel (718) 230-5740
PlayStation Theater ∑ winterjazzfest.com Blues, Soul, and
1515 Broadway. Map 12 Jazz Showmans World Music
E5. Tel (212) 930-1950. Jazz Club
5C Café Apollo Theater
Prospect Park 68 Avenue C. Map 5 C2. 375 W 125th St. Map 20 F1. 253 W 125 St. Map 19 A1.
Bandshell Tel (212) 477-5993. Tel (212) 864-8941.
62 West Drive, Prospect Tel (212) 531-5305.
Park, Brooklyn Map 23 C5. Bill’s Place Smalls B.B. King’s Blues Club
Tel (718) 683-5600. 148 W 133rd St. Map 19 183 W 10th St. Map 3 C2. 237 W 42nd St. Map 8 E1.
Tel (212) 252-5091.
Radio City Music Hall C3. Tel (212) 281-0777. Tel (212) 997-4144.
See p341. Birdland Smoke SOB’s
315 W 44th St. Map 12 D5. 2751 Broadway. Map 20 204 Varick St. Map 4 D3.
Rock Music Tel (212) 581-3080. E5. Tel (212) 864-6662. Tel (212) 243-4940.
Arlene’s Grocery Blue Note Village Vanguard Terra Blues
95 Stanton St. Map 5 A3. 131 W 3rd St. Map 4 D2. 178 7th Ave S. Map 3 C1. 149 Bleecker St. Map 4 E3.
Tel (212) 995-1652. Tel (212) 475-8592. Tel (212) 255-4037. Tel (212) 777-7776.

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