Venues

Dakota Jazz Club In Minneapolis

By jazzman • Dec 10th, 2008 • Category: Features, Minneapolis, News

The Dakota is a favorite club among many of jazz´s top players. It is located right in the heart of downtown Minneapolis. The intimate sound and lights, the stage and the expanded room provide an ideal atmosphere to showcase the most talented jazz musicians in the world as well as the fantastic local talent [...]



Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola In New York

By jazzman • Dec 5th, 2008 • Category: Features, Manhattan, NY, News

Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola is designed to entertain people in the spirit that Dizzy had - very welcoming. Their mission is that you have a good time and that you have a memorable experience. The whole facility is designed for international participation. This is a hall of integration…to bring everything together.

Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola is [...]



Manhattan Supper Club In Orange, CA

By jazzman • Nov 30th, 2008 • Category: Features, LA, News, Orange County

Manhattan Supper Club brings visibly charming East-coast style to southern California’s abundant steakhouse community but it’s the food that “clearly stands out” from the rest of the pack, says Chef StephaneBeaucamp. His style “glides effortlessly between fusion and classics” using his über resume of experience to create as much “finesse and ease with tradition” [...]



“Jazz, A Louisiana Kitchen”: Great food and jazz in Kansas City

By jazzman • Nov 30th, 2008 • Category: Features, Kansas City, News

Jazz, A Louisiana Kitchen is located in the heart of the Entertainment District of Legends, just North of the Kansas City Speedway. Jazz is thick with Mardi Gras souvenirs and postcards. The atmosphere is gritty and festive (countless customers have scrawled their names on the walls), and you can fill up on great Big [...]



Jazz At The Mecca Supper Club In Chicago

By jazzman • Nov 30th, 2008 • Category: Chicago, Features, News

Edison Park’s premiere restaurant, this great establishment is known first and foremost for their perfectly grilled steaks, fresh daily fish & seafood specials, hearty pastas, original sandwiches & burgers, and piping hot fresh MECCA pizza. All of which is served in a relaxing environment surrounding you with the feel of a Northwoods Lodge.

In addition to [...]



The Mint: Great club for jazz in Los Angeles

By jazzman • Nov 29th, 2008 • Category: Features, LA, News

Every Monday, The Mint, together with 32 Bar Productions, delivers a speak-easy style Jazz experience, reminiscent of some of the old New York Jazz clubs back in the day. Our jazz night , hosted by Kevin Kanner and his quintet and featuring different DJ’s every week is called The Groove Pocket.
The night combines uncompromised [...]



The Blue Room In Kansas City: Museum & Jazz Club

By jazzman • Nov 26th, 2008 • Category: Features, Kansas City, News

Back in the 1930s and ’40s, the Blue Room was one of the hottest nightspots in the 18th and Vine District. Located in the Street Hotel, in its heyday, the Blue Room featured some of the biggest names in entertainment. Today that legacy plays on as part of the American Jazz Museum; however, the name [...]



Ciao Pasta In San Juan Capistrano

By jazzman • Nov 24th, 2008 • Category: Features, News, Orange County

Ciao Pasta is owned by Chef Pasquale Manta who trained in his native Southern Italy at the age of 20. Arriving in California when he was 25, Pasquale worked at Puccini Restaurant in Tustin where he honed his skills under the inspiration of Chef “Franco”. Pasquale, a warm and expressive man who speaks beautiful Italian [...]



Great American Music Hall In San Francisco

By jazzman • Nov 22nd, 2008 • Category: Features, News, San Francisco

San Francisco’s oldest and grandest nightclub, the Great American Music Hall carries guests back to an earlier, more elegant era, with its ornate balconies, soaring marble columns and elaborate ceiling frescoes. Long-time customers and newcomers alike feel at home in the 5,000-square-foot concert hall that symbolized renewal and optimism when it opened in 1907.
Today, [...]



Villa Nova Restaurant In Newport Beach

By Mike • Nov 21st, 2008 • Category: Features, LA, News, Orange County

The Villa Nova has been a Southern California dining tradition since 1933. Originally located on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip, Villa Nova’s famous clientele included Charlie Chaplin, Bing Crosby, John Wayne and Dean Martin to name a few. It was at Villa Nova that Joe DiMaggio took Marilyn Monroe on a blind date and where Vincent Minelli [...]