Smalls (Jazzclub)

The Smalls is a New York jazz club, which was founded in 1994. Numerous recordings of the concerts appear on the label Small Live.

The Smalls, located at 183 West 10th Street ( corner of Seventh Avenue South ) in Greenwich Village Manhattan counts since its foundation in 1994 to the famous venues of jazz in New York City. Mitchell Borden founded it only a few blocks from the Village Vanguard away, in a room in the basement of a building in the West Village. To occur there artists included in the first years young musicians such as Ehud Asherie, Gilad Hekselman, Ari Hoenig, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Avishai Cohen, Guillermo Klein, Mark Turner, Zaid Nasser, Sacha Perry and Jason Lindner (whose big band regularly at Smalls concerted ) and the jazz veterans Lou Donaldson, Tommy Turrentine and Frank Hewitt.

Borden had the club close 2003 and opened a new club called Fat Cat; However, the strong demand for the club Smalls after it briefly a Brazilian music venue was the re-opening in 2005. Meanwhile, the Club of Borden and Lee Kostrinsky is performed. Connected to the club are the label Smalls Records and Small Live, on which recordings of Omer Avital, Bruce Barth, Seamus Blake, Peter Bernstein, Jimmy Cobb, Steve Davis, Joel Frahm, Kevin Hays, Gilad Hekselman, Ethan Iverson, Jazz Incorporated (Jeremy Pelt, Anthony Wonsey, Louis Hayes ), David Kikoski, Ryan Kisor, Bill Mobley, Tim Ries, Jim Rotondi and Neal Smith.

The Smalls is not to be confused with the existing from the 1920s up to the 1980s jazz club Small's Paradise.