Blue Note Planning Meatpacking District Jazz Club and Restaurant
January 13, 2012 8:14am | By Andrea Swalec, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
Blue Note is planning a still-unnamed, 272-seat venue and restaurant on Little West 12th Street, as of January 2012. (Facebook/Blue Note Records)
GREENWICH VILLAGE — Jazz club the Blue Note has been a Greenwich Village institution for more than three decades, and now it's trying to get a musical foothold on the Meatpacking District.
The club's owner is planning a three-floor venue at 22 Little W. 12th St., with dining rooms on the landmarked building's sixth and seventh floors and a small live music venue in the basement, he said at a Thursday night meeting of Community Board 2's State Liquor Authority advisory committee.
"The late-night jam session in New York — we're hoping to reestablish that in this location," said Steve Bensusan, who owns Blue Note, B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in Midtown and the Highline Ballroom in Chelsea.
The 80-person-capacity basement club would feature "jazz, live music and R&B" and provide "room to develop new artists," he said.
The name of the new venue would "most likely not be 'Blue Note,'" representative Frank Heidinger said. Rather, its name may evoke the Japanese food it plans to serve.
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