Blue Note New York is the Greenwich Village jazz club that spawned a global jazz empire. Both jazz legends and up-and-comers perform. You never know who might be sitting in, or sitting next to you. It’s that kind of place. The Blue Note Jazz Festival is a New York June tradition.
Latin Jazz at the Blue Note
DECEMBER
Jazz Pop
Chris Botti, the Italian American trumpet player who is one of the world’s most popular jazz instrumentalists, and has crossed over into jazz pop, plays his 21st Annual Holiday Residency at The Blue Note jazz club in Greenwich Village, Manhattan; nightly (including Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day) from December 9, 2025 through January 4, 2026, at 7pm and 9:30pm. From $89. 🇺🇸
NOVEMBER
Puerto Rican Jazz
Tito Puente Jr. and his Latin Jazz Ensemble play Puerto Rican jazz for brunch at the Blue Note jazz club in Greenwich Village, Manhattan; on Saturday, November 22, 2025 at 12:30pm and 2:30pm (Doors 11:30am and 2pm). Door + $20 per person lunch minimum. 🇵🇷
I spent the last seven years looking for the roots of Latin culture in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. The further I go into the Latin world, the more the boundaries between cultures dissolve. English is just Spanish or French badly pronounced. Jazz and salsa are both Latin. They are the same language with different accents. And the roots of jazz and Cuban changüi which becomes son in Havana, and salsa in New York, the roots are actually Haitian dispersed all over the Caribbean (including Cuba, Puerto Rico, New Orleans and Trinidad) by the Haitian Revolution. I live two days walk from Ayiti. The typical American point of view is that we are all separate. We are not. Here you can feel the similarities. ¡Ay bendito!
Past Latin Artists
Everybody plays the Blue Note. These are just a few recent artists.
- Pedrito Martinez is the world’s first-call rumba percussionist. He plays rumba, timba, jazz, and pop that can change your life. 🇨🇺
- Antonio Sánchez is a multiple Grammy-winner and Golden Globe-nominated jazz fusion drummer. 🇲🇽
- Arturo Sandoval is a Dizzy Gillespie protegé who came up through Irakere. 🇨🇺
- Banda Iroko, Israeli Puerto Rican Lucumí jazz 🇮🇱 🇵🇷
- Bernie Williams, the former Yankee All-Star is a great jazz guitarist. 🇵🇷
- Chris Botti Italian American instrumental jazz 🇮🇹
- Cimafunk, the “James Brown of Cuba,” is one of the hottest Cuban funk singers. 🇨🇺
- Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Latin Experience features John Lee who was Dizzy’s bassist, and Mario Grillo who is “Machito Jr.” 🇨🇺
- Eddie Palmieri was an NEA jazz master, and one of the elder statesmen of Latin jazz and salsa in New York City. 🇵🇷
- Edmar Castaneda ~ Colombian jazz harp virtuoso. 🇨🇴
- Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, African American jazz 🇺🇸
- Louie Vega Puerto Rican house music. 🇵🇷
- Melvis Santa Afro-Cuban jazz. 🇨🇺
- Nella Rojas Venezuelan pop. 🇻🇪
About The Blue Note
Since the Blue Note New York opened in Greenwich Village in 1981, it has grown into one of the world’s premiere jazz brands with jazz clubs in the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia.
The Blue Note Jazz Festival makes New York swing in June.
Thank you Blue Note Entertainment for sponsoring New York Latin Culture Magazine!
Blue Note Tickets
There are per-person minimums, in addition to the door. Seating is first-come, first-serve. People line-up outside the club long before door time.
Blue Note New York
131 West 3rd St
(between Sixth Ave & MacDougal St)
Greenwich Village, Manhattan