Uptown, downtown, big bands to subway soloists; elegant clubs with big-name headliners to funky basements where the bands play all night. Jazz Guide: New York City reveals more than sixty venues where you can hear the best of every kind of jazz - Latin, avant-garde, New Orleans-style, or hard bop - in the city renowned for the music. Festivals, music stores, poetry sessions, and gospel brunches are also featured, along with jazz lore: visits to the heyday of Harlem and 52nd Street, the famous bridge where Sonny Rollins moonlighted, and the neighborhood Louis Armstrong called home.

Photographs by Nicholas Prior.

CONTENTS:
Tribeca & Soho; Lower East Side & East Village; West Village; Chelsea; Midtown; Upper West Side; Harlem; Brooklyn & Queens; Beyond the Clubs

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