Legendary Jazz club the Village Vanguard will celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2010. Such jazz greats as John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, and Cannonball Adderly, just to name a few, all played at the Vanguard and more than 100 Jazz albums were recorded here.
Opened in February1935 as a bar, the 7th Avenue basement club has presented all types of entertainment from pop singers to beat poetry to folk music and then in 1957 it changed to an only Jazz format which has been its claim to fame. People still come from around the world to the Vanguard to listen to the music.
178 Seventh Ave South, NYC, N.Y.