The Blue Note is a jazz club and restaurant located at 131 West 3rd Street in Greenwich Village, New York City.[1] Opened in 1981 by owner and founder Danny Bensusan, the club is now considered one of the world's most famous jazz venues.[2] The club's performance schedule features shows every evening at 8:00pm and 10:30pm, a Sunday jazz brunch with performances at 12:30pm and 2:30pm, and a Late Night Groove Series with performances at 12:30am on Saturday and Sunday mornings. [3]
In addition to its main New York City branch, the club also currently maintains locations in Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan; and Milan, Italy. Previous locations included Osaka and Fukuoka, Japan; Seoul, South Korea; and Las Vegas, Nevada.
The club is not affiliated with the Blue Note Records label.
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Half Note Records is the Blue Note's live record label. Numerous musicians have recorded live albums at the Blue Note and released them on this label, including James Carter, Avishai Cohen, Elvin Jones, Odean Pope, Charles Tolliver, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Kenny Werner, and others. Since its founding in 1998, the label has also expanded its scope to include studio releases, including McCoy Tyner's 2008 album Guitars and Kenny Werner's 2010 release No Beginning, No End.
Many of the label's albums have garnered critical acclaim. Paquito D'Rivera's album Live from the Blue Note won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album in 2001, and several other albums have received Grammy nominations, including Gil Goldstein's Under Rousseau's Moon; Conrad Herwig's The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter and Another Kind of Blue: The Latin Side of Miles Davis, and the Omar Sosa Sextet's Across the Divide: A Tale of Rhythm & Ancestry.[4]
Many of jazz's most prominent artists have performed at the Blue Note, including Keith Jarrett, Chet Baker, Bobby Caldwell, Kenny Barron, Tony Bennett, Paul Bley, Chris Botti, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ray Brown, Dave Brubeck, Gary Burton, Larry Carlton, Betty Carter, Ron Carter, Ray Charles, Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette, Billy Eckstine, Maynard Ferguson, Bill Frisell, Kenny Garrett, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Haden, Jim Hall, Lionel Hampton, Herbie Hancock, Roy Haynes, Joe Henderson, Woody Herman, Earl Hines, Dave Holland, Freddie Hubbard, Milt Jackson, Ahmad Jamal, Elvin Jones, Hank Jones, Chaka Khan, Lee Konitz, Chuck Mangione, Wynton Marsalis, Pat Martino, Christian McBride, Bobby McFerrin, Jackie McLean, Carmen McRae, James Moody, Gerry Mulligan, Joe Lovano, Eddie Palmieri, Oscar Peterson, Tito Puente, Joshua Redman, Buddy Rich, Paquito D'Rivera, Max Roach, Kurt Rosenwinkel, David Sanborn, Arturo Sandoval, John Scofield, George Shearing, Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver, Nina Simone, Zoot Sims, Billy Taylor, Clark Terry, Toots Thielemans, Stanley Turrentine, McCoy Tyner, Sarah Vaughan, Kenny Werner, Cassandra Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Michael Bublé, and Phil Woods.[5]
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of its founding, the Blue Note is presenting the inaugural Blue Note Jazz Festival in June 2011. This month-long event will feature performances at the Blue Note and numerous other venues across New York City by artists who have been integral parts of the club's history, including Chris Botti, Dave Brubeck, McCoy Tyner, Nancy Wilson, and many others.[6]