Welcome to the Village Vanguard web site, online since April 1999. The club's been around for just a bit longer (1935).

Updated Thursday, June 18th, 2009.

UPDATES...

Check the "schedule" page for the line-up through September 2009.

Check the "info" page for the latest price info.

The price per set for the Anat Cohen Quartet is $35.00 each night.

SPOTLIGHT: Bill Carrothers (Tue, July 14 to Sun, July 19)

Bill Carrothers has been a professional pianist for over 25 years. He has played many venues throughout the U. S. and Europe including the Village Gate, Knitting Factory, Birdland, Blues Alley, New Morning (Paris), the Audi Jazz Festival in Brussels, the Nevers Jazz Festival (where he shared the bill with Abbey Lincoln), the Montreal Jazz Festival, Jazz Middelheim, and the Marciac Festival in France. In October of 2000, Mr. Carrothers headlined the prestigious Rising Star Tour throughout Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. He has been a leader on seventeen recordings, all of which have received critical acclaim. His side-man credits have included some of the greatest names in jazz, including Joe Beck, Scott Colley, Buddy DeFranco, Dave Douglas, Curtis Fuller, Eric Gravatt, Drew Gress, Tim Hagans, Billy Higgins, Ari Hoenig, Lee Konitz, James Moody, Gary Peacock, Dewey Redman, Charlie Rouse, James Spaulding, Bill Stewart, Ben Street, Ira Sullivan, Toots Thielemans, and Benny Wallace.

VJO on the road - Monday, July 6th

The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra will be on the road Monday, July 6th. The club will be closed that day. The VJO will return for the following Monday, July 13th.

LIVE BROADCASTS from the VILLAGE VANGUARD

"Live at The Village Vanguard" is a brand new monthly series from WBGO, NPR, and The Village Vanguard that presents jazz programming in a completely fresh way, using multi-platform media to heighten the jazz experience. Visitors to the WBGO website are able to listen to the concerts online in real time, and chat with WBGO's Special Projects Coordinator and host, Josh Jackson in a live conversation via the WBGO chat room, to discuss the performances as they happen. Photos are shot and uploaded during the performance, giving a complete live musical experience to visitors. Jackson also blogs live to www.WBGO.org/blog.

Upcoming shows in "Live at The Village Vanguard" series:
Allen Toussaint's The Bright Mississippi Band - Wednesday, May 20.
Bill McHenry Quintet - Wednesday, June 10.
Fred Hersch Trio - Wednesday, July 22.

Alive at the Village Vanguard: My Life In and Out of Jazz Time by our very own Lorraine Gordon.

Here's what others are saying:

"Lorraine Gordon has not only known everybody in jazz, but just about everybody else as well. This book is a must-read for all who love our city's roar, its music and its history."
Ahmet Ertegun, Chairman, Atlantic Records.

"She's beautiful, hilarious, ornery, out-spoken, sometimes outrageous, honest to a fault, endlessly quotable and simply the living spirit of jazz.
Bruce Lundvall, Blue Note Records."

"She's maintained the integrity of the Vanguard as a room where musicians play. It's a great feat, especially in our time, when integrity is a curse word and selling out a religion in our country. And it will be viewed that way, as a very great achievement not just for jazz but for our times."
Wynton Marsalis

"Lorraine Gordon is why the Village Vanguard is what it is, and why it is."
Bill Frisell

RECIPIENT OF THE ASCAP DEEMS TAYLOR AWARD
The American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers has awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award to Lorraine Gordon and Barry Singer in recognition of the excellence of their book, Alive at the Village Vanguard: My Life In and Out of Jazz Time.