A few useful (?) links

• New York City and its thrilling cultural life

• Jazz and improvised music :
  • Fat Cat and Small's, the two sister clubs offering the best and cheapest jazz in town
  • Detour, which has good (sometimes excellent) jazz, always good beer, and no cover ever
  • Cornelia Street Café, a West Village jewel
  • Tonic, the Mecca of downtown music (meaning improvised, energetic, and noisy at times). Give a penny if you can, they almost suffocated last year.
  • The Knitting Factory, which sometimes rivals Tonic, and more often just makes noise
  • The Jazz Galllery, a rising star in modern jazz
  • The Mythical Village Vanguard, which sometimes avoids the pitfalls of mercantilism
  • The 55 bar, if you're really too lazy to go elsewhere than Sheridan Square for jazz
  • The Jazz Standard, the nouveau riche of NY's jazz clubs. Don't expect any cutting-edge, risky music here, but it is nice to recall that some clubs actually care more about delivering music than food and drinks.
  • Barbès, if you are lucky enough to live in Park Slope or patient enough to spend 4 hours on the subway
  • Zinc Bar : so close to where I lived that I have never been there.
  • CBGB Lounge sometimes has very good free jazz . Usually on Sundays.
  • The Harlem clubs : Lenox Lounge, St Nick's pub, Showman's
  • The JVC Jazz Festival, if you happen to be in NYC at that time of the year
  • All about jazz, Gotham jazz, which have excellent reviews and listings
• Electronic
• Nublu , the next step in blending electronic and organic grooves. Weekly events with jazz,  forro, hip hop, dub, funk, or just great house music.
• Cielo, with resident DJ Francois K on mondays. Best sound system in the city.
  
• Orchestral music and Opera
  • The legendary Carnegie Hall
  • The New York Philharmonic, my prime provider of musical orgasms. Don't miss their outstanding deals !
  • The Metropolitan Opera
• Some musicians active in NY:
  • Ben Monder, exceptional guitar player
  • Steve Lehman,exciting sax player, the website of which has cool excerpts
  • Jay Collins, named after the same bird as I am, but a really good cat
  • Jason Lindner, whose Big  Band makes monday nights jump up and down
  • Chris Cheek, who is just brilliant
  • Spencer Katzman, for whom I have to decide whether I prefer the music, the wit, or both
• A few good movie theaters :
• Angelika film center
• Film Forum
• Landmark Sunshine cinema
• The Walter Read theater
• BAM Cinematek, which requires going to BAM (nice but far from Harlem...)
• A few worthwhile museums
  • The WhitneyMuseum of American Art
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • The Museum of Modern Art

 

• New York City and its most self-satisfied university
  • Columbia University
  • Columbia University Kokikai Aikido
  • Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • La Maison Française and its delights
  • Our wonderful Library Web
  • In case you want to come here

 

 

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