Blue Note

Blue Note Jazz Club is a jazz club and restaurant located at 131 West 3rd Street in Greenwich Village, New York. The club was opened on September 30, 1981 by owner and founder Danny Bensusan with the Nat Adderly Quintet being the featured performers for the night. It is still considered one of the world’s most famous jazz venues and one of the best known and most expensive in New York. The club’s performance schedule features shows every evening at 8:00 pm and 10:30 pm and a Sunday jazz brunch with performances at 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. The venue has also started a bi-weekly Late Night Groove Series giving New York's up-and-coming jazz, soul, hip-hop, R&B and funk artists an opportunity to showcase their talents on Saturday and Sunday mornings at 12:30 am. The club currently maintains locations in Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan and in Milan, Italy.