Smalls Jazz Club

Smalls Jazz Club is a jazz club located at 183 West 10th Street, Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, United States. Established in 1993, it earned a reputation in the 1990s as a "hotbed for New York's jazz talent" with a "well-deserved reputation as one of the best places in the city to see rising talent in the New York jazz scene". Its jazz musicians are noted for being "talented, though largely unknown" while its music is characterized as "modern versions of bebop and hard bop". The club's subterranean main room is in a basement, with an original capacity of 50 people, later expanded to 60 people. Smalls Jazz Club should not be confused with Harlem's Small's Paradise, which was founded in 1925 by Ed Smalls and closed in the 1950s.

Smalls Jazz Club was established in 1993 by Mitchell "Mitch" Borden, a former submariner, nurse and teacher. Its atmosphere was characterized as being young, bohemian, and talkative. The music started each night at 10:30 PM and would last until 6:00 AM the following morning. The entrance fee was US$10.00; no alcohol was served. Musicians who played here in their earlier years include Ehud Asherie, Ari Hoenig, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Avishai Cohen, Guillermo Klein, Noah Becker, Omer Avital, Mark Turner, Zaid Nasser, Avishai Cohen (trumpeter), Michael Weiss, Sacha Perry, Jason Lindner, and Tommy Turrentine. The house pianist was Frank Hewitt.

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