NYC folks: Greenwich Village free or cheap shows 10/30-11/1???

[brianrost]

I'm in NYC next week Monday through Wednesday, staying at a hotel somehwere in the Village (my wife picked it out, not sure which one).

We have $$$$ advance tix for early shows every night...Les Paul, Karl Denson and Lou Donaldson...but would like to know about any free/cheap late night shows in the Village.

Any good record shops in the neighborhood I should visit?

[ee-san]

Big band at the Garage is a possibility.

[Alex Spradling]

garage has live jazz every night, i don't know if that qualifies as a show though. good food too.

[Gornick]

What happened to Smalls? I know they closed but I recall they may have re-opened... and I remeber the Fat Cat having late shows as well.

[TroyK]

Did I hear that Kavahaz closed too? That was one neighborhood over in Chealsea, but was a great free/cheap spot.

[fred pratt]

55 Bar on Christopher and 7th Avenue almost always has something good going on. Fat Cat on the other side of 7th. The Vanguard just up 7th and Sweet Rythm on 7th and Bleecker have cover charges, but there's always great music there. The Jazz Gallery on Hudson Street I think is mostly a weekend place. Have fun.

[jazzbass72]

Hey Brian,
I emailed you privately with some info on my Smalls gig on Monday Oct 30, hope to see you there. Musicians are treated kinda badly at the Garage (got a couple of personal horror stories), so I would recommend you don't patronize it... people talk so loud that it's hard to hear the music anyways. Just my $0.02

There's a record store with used stuff on Bleecker between Grove and 7th Ave South... can't recall what it's called, but you can probably get better deals on half.com these days.

-Marco

[dperrott]

As for record stores, Tower records is going out of business and everything is discounted (Broadway and 4th), Other Music is farther up 4th street (4th and Lafayette). Its good for contemporary and some used stuff. Academy records is a great used place. Academy Records 12 W. 18th St. (between 5th and 6th Aves.) 212.242.3000. Its a dumping ground for record reviewers.

[musicman5string]

Originally Posted by jazzbass72

Musicians are treated kinda badly at the Garage (got a couple of personal horror stories), so I would recommend you don't patronize it... people talk so loud that it's hard to hear the music anyways.
-Marco

Not only that but that room sounds like sh!t.

[jazzbass72]

Originally Posted by musicman5string

Not only that but that room sounds like sh!t.

You're totally right,
wish-I-could-call-you-by-your-real-name-if-I-knew-what-it-was :-)

Marco

[philip sirois]

got to http://www.allaboutjazz.com/newyork/index.php

Prbbly the best listing in town. The kitano hotel has no cover shows on wednesday nights that are sometimes top shelf.
Zinc on houston street bar has ron affif on monday late for like five bucks. Cornelia street cafe is a nice place to go right in the village but the shows arent so late. Smalls is cool- the Marco thing sounds perfect. The garage is a tourist trap. Maybe ben riley/monk septet at lunchtime tuesday at J&R Music downtown near city hall might be worthwhile.

[nsburcher]

Check out downtown music gallery for some great discs. dtmgallery.com

[brianrost]

Phil,

I know about All About Jazz but the problem is I don't the city well enough to know what small clubs might be worth going to and which would be a waste of time & money.

Like I wrote earlier we will be going to 8:00 shows at big clubs every night but after we head back to the hotel I'd be up for hanging for another hour or so in a local spot that has some good jazz.

We're staying at the Cosmoplitan Hotel which I guess is not really the Viilage after all but Tribeca (95 W. Broadway at Chambers).

[jazzbass72]

Originally Posted by brianrost

We're staying at the Cosmoplitan Hotel which I guess is not really the Viilage after all but Tribeca (95 W. Broadway at Chambers).

At Chambers and W. Broadway, you're only 4 stops away (on the 1 train) from the heart of the West Village (Christopher St stop, basically by the 55 bar, and one and a half blocks away from Smalls). If you want to cab it from there back to the hotel, it won't be more than $8 or so. We don't need to own cars to get around in Manhattan :-)

-MP

[philip sirois]

So I guess smalls on monday, Ben Riley at J&R music on Park row(walking distance from your hotel) at 12:30 pm tuesday, more of a "take a walk and check it out thing", 55 bar on tueday or wed.By wednesday you might be ready to venture uptown(just uptown, not "uptown"(harlem)) to Smoke,
where they have the B3 honking late. That's at 106 and broadway on that very same #1 train. There's also SOB's which has brazillian latin down near your hotel. And Zinc which has a latin band on houston not far from where you are. Also wednesday joel frahm is playing at louis 649 in the east village, no cover. He's a very straight- aheadish good tenor player. And tueday in the east village Sue Terry and her band with newman taylor- baker on drums(excellent)no cover at the sunburnt cow in the East village. That's all I got bro . Have fun ( from a former bostonian and raging masshole).

phil

[WillBuckingham]

This is a really cool record store, though it's on west 26th, which might be farther than you feel like venturing.

http://www.jazzrecordcenter.com/