Blue Note Jazz Club

Blue Note is a jazz club in Greenwich Village in New York City, which was founded in 1981 by Danny Bensusan (131 West 3rd Street), after a period of " mass extinction " of the jazz clubs in New York. Here were many famous jazz greats like Sarah Vaughan on, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Oscar Peterson, Lionel Hampton, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Tito Puente and Charles Lloyd, who had previously shunned appearances in jazz clubs. The club is at the same restaurant and now also a tourist attraction (reservation recommended). The club also emerged already several live albums, such as Oscar Peterson, Herbie Mann and Keith Jarrett.

Bensusan is an Israeli from Jaffa, born in 1949, who lives in New York since 1969 and previously ran a Jewish restaurant and a disco. In his own words, he came without musical " preload " to jazz when he realized early 1980s, that the disco wave subsided and demand for novelty consisted. He built at the Blue Note a whole " empire " on, with branches in Milan (2003 ) and Japan ( Tokyo, 1988, Nagoya 2002, Osaka 1990). Bensusan also has other clubs in New York, founded in 1996 as the "BB King " in Times Square with soul music and the Highline Ballroom for" Indie Rock ", and a record label " Blue Note Live ".

In addition to the main concerts by 20 clock to 22:30 clock, there are performances of local musicians (jazz, rhythm and blues, hip hop, soul, funk ) on Friday and Saturday at 0.30 clock ( "Late Night Groove" ), and Monday ( "Monday Night Series " ) for young jazz musicians.

The name recalls the Blue Notes and also at the famous jazz label Blue Note Records, with whom he has nothing to do. There was also earlier jazz clubs with this name, for example, in Paris ( Blue Note (Paris) ).