The Blue Note is one of NYC’s legendary Greenwich Village jazz clubs. It’s a supper club that presents a lot of Latin jazz.
Latin Artists at the Blue Note 2026
Tito Puente Jr. and His Latin Jazz Ensemble
Puerto Rican Latin jazz and mambo
WBGO Presents Brunch
Sat, August 15, 2026 | 12:30pm (doors 11:30am) and 2:30pm (doors 2pm)
$33+ and $20 minimum per person
Tito Puente Jr. brings his Latin Jazz Ensemble to the Blue Note for two Saturday brunch sets in mid-August. As the son of El Rey del Timbal, he carries forward one of the defining legacies in New York Latin jazz — and as his own bio puts it, people always smile when they say his father’s name. You know, that’s true. Smiling.
A morning of mambo and timbales at the Blue Note is as New York City as it gets.
Louie Vega: Elements of Life with Special Guests
Puerto Rican house, Latin jazz, soul
Blue Note Jazz Festival
Sat, June 27, 2026 | 8pm (doors 6pm) | Special guest: Leroy Burgess
Sun, June 28, 2026 | 8pm (doors 6pm)
$60.76+ and $20 minimum per person at the club
Louie Vega closes out the festival’s final weekend, and it’s the kind of booking that feels like a statement. Born in the Bronx into a musically gifted family — his father is a jazz saxophonist, his uncle is salsa legend Héctor Lavoe — Vega started out at The Devil’s Next, where Latin freestyle began. He developed his house identity at Heartthrob, and then Studio 54. Vega is now one of the most celebrated house music producers and DJs in the world, earning a Grammy and seven nominations along the way.
Elements of Life is where all of it comes together: house, salsa, Afrobeat, jazz, gospel, and soul, performed live with a full ensemble. Vega’s biography on the Fania Records release of Elements of Life – Eclipse put it plainly: being on the label his uncle Héctor Lavoe recorded for was, in his own words, a dream come true. The roots are always present.
Vega usually spends his summers headlining huge parties in the Mediterranean. These two nights at the intimate Blue Note Jazz Club are the kind of shows you’ll be talking about for years. It’s going to be hard to stay in your seat.
Ozomatli
Mexican American Latin Alternative
Blue Note Jazz Festival
Mon-Tue, June 22-23, 2026 | 8pm and 10:30pm
$39+ and $20 minimum per person
Since forming in 1995, Ozomatli has built one of the most joyful and politically charged live acts in American music. The “Soundtrack of Los Angeles” weaves tropical dance forms salsa and cumbia into hip hop, funk, and rock for a sound that is equal parts dance party and call to action. Three Grammys and a relentless touring schedule have only sharpened the band’s ability to pack the floor.
Their music flows in both Spanish and English, which tells you everything about where they’re coming from. Catching Ozomatli in the intimacy of the Blue Note Jazz Club — rather than the festival fields where they typically command — is a rare treat.
The Music of the Buena Vista Social Club: A Tribute to the Golden Age of Cuba
Cuba | Son cubano, bolero, danzón
Blue Note Jazz Festival
WBGO Presents Brunch
Sat, June 20, 2026 | 1pm (doors 11:30am)
$20+ and $20 minimum per person
French American guitarist François Wiss, Peruvian American multi-instrumentalist Joshua Szeimberg, and Cuban-Puerto Rican percussionist Jose Ramon Rosario bring their own vision to the beloved catalog of the Buena Vista Social Club — honoring classics associated with Ibrahim Ferrer, Eliades Ochoa, Rubén González, and Compay Segundo, woven through with accents of flamenco and world music.
Szeimberg is musical director of NYC salsa orchestra El Combo Del Mañana; Rosario brings his Cuban and Puerto Rican heritage and five decades of performance.
Together they make this a genuinely New York interpretation of Cuban tradition — not a museum piece, but a living conversation with the music.
The Blue Note’s brunch format — full bar, brunch menu, intimate room — is the right setting for it. Get there early; all seating is first come, first served.
Monty Alexander: Jamaica to Jazz
Jamaican American pianist blends reggae, ska, and jazz
Thu-Sun, April 2-5, 8pm & 10:30pm (6pm & 10pm doors)
$73+
Yilian Cañizares: Vitamina Y
Afro-Cuban classical jazz violinist and vocalist
Apr 6, Mon, 8pm & 10:30pm (6pm & 10pm doors)
$33+
Michel Camilo: Mano a Mano featuring Pedrito Martínez & Ricky Rodríguez
Caribbean jazz by Grammy, Latin Grammy, Emmy-winning Dominican jazz pianist; world’s leading Cuban rumbero, Grammy-winning Puerto Rican bassist
Apr 7, Tue-Sun, 8pm & 10:30pm (6pm & 10pm doors)
$50+
Mano a Mano was Camilo’s 2011 album. He is a link to Fernando Trueba’s legendary Latin jazz film “Calle 54” (2000). That seems so long ago now. Pedrito is the world’s first-call rumbero.
Julius Rodriguez
Haitian American jazz pianist
Apr 13-14, Mon-Tue, 8pm & 10:30pm (6pm & 10pm doors)
$39+
Raul Midón
Argentine African American one-man band guitarist singer-songwriter
Apr 15, Wed, 8pm & 10:30pm (6pm & 10pm doors)
$33+
Kelsey Lu
Nigerian African American R&B pop
Apr 16-17, Thu-Fri, 8pm & 10:30pm (6pm & 10pm doors)
$95+
She’s an interesting singer and cellist who takes her R&B roots to all kinds of places.
Blue Note Tickets
131 West 3rd St
(near Sixth Avenue)
Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Seating is first come-first-serve, so go early. People line up an hour or more before doors. The credit card used for purchase is required at the door; no refunds or exchanges.
In addition to cover charges there is usually a $20 minimum per person at the club.