Nublu Club

The Nublu Club is a club in New York's East Village that was opened in 2002 by Swedish-Turkish saxophoninst Ilhan Ersahin.

On its 10th anniversary the club's namesake festival presented what it calls the Nublu Sound, a combination of jazz, African, South American, Caribbean, electronic, and dance music. Among the bands most closely associated with Nublu are The Brazilian Girls; Forro in the Dark; Love Trio and Wax Poetic. Close associates who may sometimes jam or conduct gigs there include Butch Morris, the creator of Conduction and conductor of the Nublu Orchestra; John Zorn; the Sun Ra Arkestra; David Byrne; Caetano Veloso; Gilberto Gil; Norah Jones and Bebel Gilberto.

Ersahin had already been developing festival programming from New York since moving there from Sweden when he was 20 years old, and packaging performance for festivals in Turkey, his father's homeland. Before opening Nublu, Ersahin had worked for a decade in various capacities at the Sweet Basil Jazz Club. The musicians he performed with became the nucleus of the Nublu collective. Nublu Club grew out of parties he was throwing at various spaces around Manhattan, where friends would perform.

"My aim was not to do a big club; my first aim was to do a little café and have friends hang out and play," Ersahin told Christopher Port of JazzTimes. "One day I just saw this space that was for rent in the East Village. It was a perfect space: the rent wasn't too expensive, it had a beautiful garden, it had this organic club feel to it." He later came up with the term "Nublu" to convey his eclectic aesthetic. "I just thought Nublu was the proper name for the type of music we were doing," he said. "It comes from the thinking of jazz — the Miles Davis-type thinking — using New York City elements, being open to different types of music."

...
Wikipedia