Acclaimed New York venue Blue Note Jazz Club will take LA’s music scene by storm in 2025.
The Greenwich Village club, long considered one of New York’s elite jazz spaces, will open a new venue in Hollywood in March with performance rooms for 200 and 100 people and a full restaurant. do. The club already has locations around the world, including Napa, Hawaii, Tokyo, Italy, China and Brazil.
The venue will once again partner with Grammy Award-winning artist and composer Robert Glasper to curate an event in Los Angeles based on his long-running Robtober artist residency.
“I’m honored to once again partner with Blue Note, an important cultural crossroads for the Los Angeles community. Los Angeles has always been a second home to me, and I can’t wait to bring Los Angeles culture to Blue Note. ” Glasper said in a statement.
The venue comes at a complicated time for local jazz clubs, with some popular venues closing or undergoing renovations to stay afloat.
In addition, the venue will become the new flagship partner of the Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival, which will be renamed the Blue Note Jazz Festival (which began as the Playboy Jazz Festival in 1979). The revamped festival, hosted by the LA Phil, will open for the first time at the Hollywood Bowl on June 14th, with the full lineup announced on February 18th and tickets going on sale in May.
The Napa edition of Blue Note Jazz Festival Napa will begin in 2022 and feature headliners Nas, Mary J. Blige, Chance the Rapper and Maxwell, and the festival will feature a mix of hip-hop and R&B. I did.
“We are excited to partner with Blue Note to launch the Blue Note Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl,” LA Phil President and CEO Kim Noltemy said in a statement. “This partnership represents a shared dedication to celebrating jazz and its outstanding artists while continuing the tradition of world-class music at the Bowl. We look forward to creating an unforgettable experience for you.”
