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Midtown West54 BelowAt 54 Below, every table is within 24 feet of the stage, putting Broadway performers on the scale of a supper-club conversation.Next: Fri Oct 16 · 7:00 PM · Sapphira Cristál: Sapphi Don't Sing The BluesKingsbridgeAn Beal Bocht CafeAn Beal Bocht combines an Irish pub's food and pints with live music, poetry and small-scale theater in Kingsbridge.Next: Wed Oct 28 · 8:00 PM · Riverdale Jazz SeriesProspect Lefferts GardensBar BayeuxBar Bayeux offers jazz without advance tickets or reservations, bringing small ensembles into a Prospect Lefferts Gardens cocktail bar.Next: Thu Oct 15 · 5:30 PM · Thurs Happy Hour w/Max LightMidtown WestBirdland Jazz ClubBirdland pairs jazz ensembles with vocal performances in Midtown West, with separate club and theater programs under one name.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 5:30 PM · Birdland Big BandGreenwich VillageBlue NoteBlue Note brings established jazz musicians into a Greenwich Village club that also makes space for soul, hip-hop and younger artists.Next: Wed Oct 28 · 8:00 PM · Robert Glasper feat. Derrick Hodge & Chris DaveDowntown BrooklynBRIC HouseBRIC House is the Downtown Brooklyn home of the nonprofit behind Celebrate Brooklyn! and BRIC JazzFest, with a calendar of shows, screenings and exhibitions.Next: Fri Oct 16 · 6:00 PM · BRIC JazzFest 2026Fort GreeneBrooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn Academy of Music has programmed adventurous work for more than 150 years, spreading opera, dance, film and theater across several Fort Greene buildings.Next: Fri Oct 23 · 7:30 PM · Meshell Ndegeocello, Samora PinderhughesWilliamsburgBrooklyn BowlBrooklyn Bowl puts a concert stage, bowling lanes and a full-service restaurant under one Williamsburg roof.Next: Fri Nov 27 · 8:00 PM · AntibalasDowntown BrooklynBrooklyn ParamountBrooklyn Paramount stages modern concert tours inside a 1928 movie palace, with the old theatrical architecture still surrounding the crowd.Next: Wed Oct 21 · 7:00 PM · Sienna Spiro: My House TourEast WilliamsburgBrooklyn SteelBrooklyn Steel makes a former steel factory work as an East Williamsburg concert hall, with a broad standing floor and a balcony above it.Next: Thu Oct 29 · 8:00 PM · Patrick DroneyBedford-StuyvesantBrownstoneJAZZNext: Fri Oct 9 · 7:30 PM · BrownstoneJAZZ FEST CONCERT SERIESBushwickCafe ErzulieCafe Erzulie shifts from jazz and live music into a dance club, giving its Bushwick address more than one musical identity.Next: Thu Oct 22 · 6:00 PM · Fall Jazz w Jayden RichardsonMidtown WestCarnegie HallCarnegie Hall offers several sizes of close listening, from a solo recital to a full orchestra filling its main auditorium.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 6:30 PM · Sean JonesWest VillageCellar DogCellar Dog puts live jazz alongside billiards and ping-pong, making a West Village bar visit as active or attentive as you choose.Next: Tue Oct 20 · 7:00 PM · Double TrioChelseaCity Winery New YorkCity Winery pairs a seated concert with food and its own wines at Pier 57, beside the Hudson River in Chelsea.Next: Thu Nov 5 · 8:30 PM · Preservation Hall Jazz Band and FriendsEast VillageDromDrom brings international artists and local audiences together on Avenue A, with a program that moves readily between musical traditions.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 6:30 PM · Aggeliki - from Jazz to HijazFlushingFlushing Town HallAn 1862 civic building now gives Flushing a stage for jazz and traditions drawn from across Queens and beyond.Next: Wed Oct 14 · 7:00 PM · Monthly Jazz Jam: Celebrating Thelonious Monk and the Bebop PioneersRidgewoodFreda - BasementThe basement rock venue at Freda in Ridgewood, underneath the bar, booking live music most nights of the week.Next: Sun Oct 18 · 9:30 PM · Bad Jazz (Good Comedy)West VillageGreenwich House Music SchoolA working music school in a West Village townhouse, Greenwich House puts student recitals and professional concerts under the same roof.Next: Tue Nov 24 · 7:30 PM · GHMS Jazz Vocal Workshop RecitalMidtown WestHammerstein BallroomHammerstein puts amplified concerts inside a former opera house, with balconies and a painted ceiling that keep the original ambition visible.Next: Tue Oct 20 · 8:00 PM · Sienna Spiro: My House TourInwoodInwood Art WorksInwood Art Works brings film, music and theater into neighborhood life, with local artists and outdoor screenings sharing the program.Next: Sun Oct 25 · 6:00 PM · John Coltrane at 100 - A Night of Jazz, History and CommunityUpper West SideJazz at Lincoln CenterJazz at Lincoln Center offers a concert hall, a smaller stage and a club, giving the same music several different kinds of audience.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:00 PM · Akira Tana and Friends featuring Atsuko Hashimoto and Skylar TangNoHoJoe's PubThe cabaret stage inside the Public Theater's Lafayette Street building, booking named comedy and variety acts alongside music, in front of a seated audience.Next: Wed Jan 27 · 7:00 PM · Toshi Reagon's 43rd Annual Birthday ConcertsMaspethKnockdown CenterKnockdown Center turns a former door factory in Maspeth into a concert and art complex, with enough space for festivals to take different forms.Next: Mon Oct 12 · 6:00 PM · Cortex w/ Adrian Younge & J.RoccFlushingKupferberg Center for the ArtsKupferberg Center brings touring music, dance and family productions onto the Queens College campus, with separate halls for different scales of performance.Next: Fri Nov 6 · 8:00 PM · Malika ZarraGreenwich VillageLe Poisson RougeLe Poisson Rouge treats contemporary classical music, metal and electronic acts as plausible neighbors on one Greenwich Village calendar.Next: Wed Nov 4 · 7:30 PM · Dawn RichardUpper West SideLincoln Center for the Performing ArtsLincoln Center gathers opera, ballet, orchestral music, theater and film on one Upper West Side campus, with several calendars running at once.Next: Sun Oct 11 · 7:30 PM · Temple University Studio, Symphony and Jazz OrchestrasLower East SideMercury LoungeMercury Lounge keeps touring bands and local acts close to the audience on the Lower East Side, with opening sets worth making time for.Next: Mon Oct 12 · 9:00 PM · Gengis Don with Luke WaldronGarment DistrictMichiko StudiosMichiko lets audiences hear jazz inside working rehearsal studios, where the piano is everyday equipment as well as a concert instrument.Next: Sun Oct 11 · 3:00 PM · Lew Tabackin's Dual Nature Trio: Midtown Jazz GemWilliamsburgMusic Hall of WilliamsburgMusic Hall of Williamsburg gives a standing concert more than one vantage point, with a mezzanine above the floor and bars across three levels.Next: Sat Oct 24 · 8:00 PM · Mac DeMarcoWilliamsburgNational SawdustNational Sawdust hides a carefully isolated concert hall inside a former Williamsburg factory, built for close attention to sound.Next: Tue Oct 13 · 8:00 PM · Alune Wade & Family Affair / faiith (presented by the JGI)Downtown NewarkNew Jersey Performing Arts CenterNJPAC pairs major touring performers with a substantial local program, bringing music, dance and comedy to Downtown Newark.Next: Thu Oct 15 · 6:00 PM · jazz jamsBushwickOrnithology Jazz ClubA jazz club on Suydam Street in Bushwick built around a Bechstein grand piano, with seating close enough to the players to watch their hands.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 6:30 PM · Noah Haidu TrioEast VillagePangeaPangea puts cabaret inside an East Village restaurant, with singers and other performers close enough to make the show feel like a conversation.Next: Wed Oct 14 · 7:00 PM · Cabaret Room: Pangea Jazz Night Series: JULIE MACKGowanusPublic RecordsPublic Records puts live music and DJs inside a former ASPCA headquarters in Gowanus, with a plant nursery among its performance settings.Next: Sat Oct 24 · 7:00 PM · Mark Guiliana - BEAT MUSICChelseaRacketRacket puts a 650-person concert upstairs across from Chelsea Market, keeping the stage on a scale where the crowd still feels gathered together.Next: Tue Oct 13 · 8:00 PM · Shawn JamesMidtown WestRadio City Music HallRadio City's Art Deco interior makes the walk to your seat part of the show, before the curtain or the band moves.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 8:00 PM · Steve LacyWest VillageSmalls Jazz ClubSmalls puts you close to working jazz musicians in a West Village basement, then preserves their sets in a growing performance archive.Next: Sun Nov 1 · 12:00 PM · Upcoming ShowsUpper West SideSmoke Jazz ClubSmoke keeps jazz on a small scale on the Upper West Side, with the band close enough to hold your attention without spectacle.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 10:00 PM · Monk Festival: Renee Rosnes Quartet “Monk’s Sphere”Midtown WestSony HallSony Hall keeps the decorative character of the old Diamond Horseshoe while putting a broad concert program beneath its starburst ceiling.Next: Sun Oct 11 · 8:00 PM · Morgan JamesNew BrunswickState Theatre New JerseyState Theatre New Jersey is a restored silent-film palace in New Brunswick, and central New Jersey's largest nonprofit arts presenter.Next: Sun Oct 18 · 6:30 PM · Temptations w/ Four TopsGreenwich VillageTerra BluesTerra Blues takes the music one floor above Bleecker Street, under an arched ceiling in a dedicated Greenwich Village blues club.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:00 PM · Adjua Ajamu TrioJackson HeightsTerraza 7Terraza 7 brings Latin American traditions and jazz into the same small Jackson Heights venue, often in successive sets.Next: Thu Oct 22 · 7:30 PM · Dan Neville Nonet | Jazz Inspired by Colombia’s Pacific Coast | First SetGreenwich VillageThe Bitter EndThe Bitter End's red brick backdrop frames a Greenwich Village stage shared by generations of songwriters, bands and comedians.Next: Tue Oct 20 · 8:30 PM · Debbie DeaneMurray HillThe Cutting RoomA 30-foot guitar gives this Murray Hill music club a suitably oversized calling card, while the performances stay on a club scale.Next: Fri Oct 16 · 9:30 PM · Bob BaldwinTribecaThe DjangoThe Django puts live jazz beneath the Roxy Hotel, with vaulted ceilings and exposed brick giving dinner a cellar setting.No upcoming events on the calendar.Midtown WestThe IridiumThe Iridium carries Les Paul's history into a Midtown West club where jazz, rock and blues still make the guitar a central attraction.Next: Fri Oct 16 · 8:30 PM · Jeff PitchellChelseaThe Jazz GalleryThe Jazz Gallery gives musicians a place to try new work in public, backed by commissions, rehearsal access and time to develop it.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:00 PM · PI RECORDINGS 25th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION // Dan Weiss QuartetMcGinley SquareThe Sky Room at Saint Peter's UniversityTwo-story windows frame the Hudson River and Manhattan skyline at Saint Peter's University's event hall in McGinley Square.Next: Sat Jan 30 · 6:30 PM · The Jazz Room: A Journey to the Heart of New OrleansBushwickThe Sultan RoomA Bushwick music stage attached to a transplanted Wisconsin supper club, with dinner, kebabs and a rooftop gathered around the same address.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 6:00 PM · She Keeps Bees, Pink Mexico, Parlor Walls, & The Huntress and Holder of HandsRidgewoodTrans-PecosTrans-Pecos gives all-ages shows a foothold in Ridgewood, with a community program that makes the venue useful beyond the concert calendar.Next: Thu Nov 19 · 7:00 PM · Mel Bryant & the Mercy Makers w/ Alvah Klempt and Bertha VanayshunFinancial DistrictTrinity Church Wall StreetTrinity gives the Financial District a concert program that moves between Bach, contemporary composition and jazz within a working church.Next: Wed Oct 14 · 1:00 PM · Jazz at One: Tia Fuller and Shamie Royston DuoPark SlopeUnion HallTwo indoor bocce courts and a library upstairs, a comedy and music stage one flight down. The Park Slope bar was converted out of a warehouse.Next: Sun Oct 18 · 7:30 PM · Good GodWest VillageVillage VanguardA triangular West Village basement holds the Village Vanguard, where the audience's job is simple: listen while the band works.Next: Tue Oct 13 · 12:00 PM · Ravi Coltrane - SaxophoneEast VillageWebster HallWebster Hall brings touring bands into an East Village gathering hall whose history includes union rallies, public meetings and dances.Next: Wed Oct 14 · 8:00 PM · Seun Kuti & Egypt 80Greenwich VillageZinc BarZinc Bar combines jazz and Brazilian music with velvet, brass and an actual zinc bar on West Third Street.Next: Wed Nov 4 · 12:00 AM · Gabriel and Eytan Schillinger-Hyman Jazz Quartet