Basement jazz club, record shop upstairs. 12 Example Street.
Blue
Hour
Every night, a new side.
Jane Doe Quartet
Brushes on a snare, a tenor that waits a beat too long, then doesn’t. Old standards and bossa, sung like a secret across the table.
Set times
Doors 19:30
Set I 20:30
Set II 22:15
Line-up
- Jane Doe, voice
- John Roe, piano
- Joe Bloggs, bass
- Ann Other, drums
Tickets
Table £22
Standing £12
9 tables left
The Room
The stage from the bar, one lamp on the bass Hands on the Steinway The crowd, second set
Down eleven steps from Example Street. The traffic gives out on the fourth, the brass rail catches the stage lamps on the seventh, and by the bottom you can hear the bassist’s fingers on the strings.
- seats, 30 standing
- 62
- Steinway Model B, tuned every Monday
- B
- of brick vault, no hard corners
- 2.4 m
- last note, most nights
- 00:30
Vinyl by day
Two thousand records in walnut bins, sorted by feel more than alphabet. Everything is play-graded on our deck before it’s priced, and the house band’s sessions are pressed in runs of 300.
New arrivals
Play-graded this weekPick a record.
The one you pull sets the night: the colours, the calendar, the records we set aside for you.
HEAT
Brushes on the snare, a muted trumpet, a singer close enough to the mic that you hear her breathe.
Still in
its sleeve.
Pick a record from the crate and the rest of the night re-tunes to it: the colours, the calendar, the bins we send you to.