Smoke Jazz & Supper Club is a world-famous live music venue located on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Smoke has called this room home since 1999, carrying forward a jazz tradition that stretches back to the 1970s, when the same room operated as Augie’s Jazz Bar — a legendary dive where Miles Davis-era musicians gathered, Columbia students crowded in, and the music never stopped.
Today the club hosts legendary artists and rising stars from Wednesday through Sunday. Guests enjoy top-tier jazz alongside upscale American and soul-food-inspired cuisine. It remains an essential destination for a classic, quintessential New York City jazz night out.
Latin Jazz at Smoke Jazz Club
There are many more incredible jazz musicians outside the Latin frame that are definitely worth seeing.
Danilo Pérez
Jazz by a Grammy-winning Panamanian pianist
Key Records: The Journey, PanaMonk, Central Avenue
Wednesday-Sunday, June 10-14
$25+
The Panamanian pianist is one of the most important figures in global jazz — a musician whose work draws equally from his Panamanian roots, Latin American folk traditions, West African rhythms, and the bebop lineage he absorbed playing with Dizzy Gillespie’s United Nations Orchestra as a young man.
His trio with bassist Ben Street and drummer Adam Cruz is a long-standing partnership built on the kind of trust that produces extraordinary improvisation.
Pérez’s album PanaMonk is considered by DownBeat one of the most important piano recordings in jazz history. His Central Avenue was named one of the ten best recordings across all genres by Time Magazine.
He has earned Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations across four decades of recording, and his work as a composer and educator — he has taught at both the New England Conservatory and Berklee — has shaped a generation of jazz musicians.
The Financial Times wrote that a Pérez trio performance leaves audiences “mesmerized by the trio’s twist-and-turn interplay and by the virtuosity pushed to the edge.” At Smoke, with 125 seats and world-class acoustics, you will feel every note.
Luciana Souza
Bossa Nova Jazz by Grammy-nominated Brazilian vocalist
Key Records: Brazilian Duos, Cometa, Twenty-Four Short Musical Episodes
Wednesday-Monday, May 20-25, Memorial Day Weekend
$25+
Luciana Souza was born into Bossa Nova royalty in São Paulo — her father a singer and songwriter, her mother a poet and lyricist — and she has spent her career honoring that inheritance while pushing far beyond it.
At Smoke she performs in an intimate trio with guitarist Chico Pinheiro and percussionist Rogério Boccato, a configuration that strips jazz down to its most lyrical essentials: voice, string, and rhythm in close conversation.
Souza is a multiple Grammy nominee whose recordings span Brazilian standards, original compositions, and settings of poetry by Pablo Neruda and Elizabeth Bishop. Her voice moves between languages and idioms the way great improvisers move between keys — with complete authority and no visible effort.
The New York Times has described her singing as an act of “cultural linkage and poetic disquisition,” and Billboard calls her a vocalist who “organically crosses genre borders.” In an intimate room like Smoke, that kind of artistry lands with full force.
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Smoke Jazz Club
2751 Broadway
(at 106th St/Duke Ellington Blvd)
Upper West Side, Manhattan