LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING

It’s the title of a very pretty and optimistic 1920 show tune . . .

but it’s also a well-kept New York City secret — a serene below-stairs room in a 150-year old Tribeca brownstone.  The room is cozy — it holds fewer than 100 people — but it’s not cramped; there’s room for a first-rate piano and top-flight jazz improvisation. There is a menu of small plates and a very adventurous selection of cocktails.

The SILVER LINING is located at 75 Murray Street (between Greenwich and West Broadway): their phone is 212-513-1234; the website is thttp://silverliningbar.com/

I heard about Silver Lining first through the most reputable sources — the musicians themselves — who talked of a lovely room conducive to great playing.

And the musicians?  If you check the website, you’ll see fine and familiar names: Dan Block, Dan Aran, Ehud Asherie, Larry Ham, Jon-Erik Kellso, Ray Gallon, Ned Goold, Chris Flory, Sacha Perry, Eliot Zigmund, Jon Burr, Steve Ash, Spike Wilner.

The musicians are booked by Vito Dieterle — a splendid jazz player himself (a floating tenor saxophonist whose work I admired when he was playing alongside Claire Daly in Joel Forrester’s small group) — so I know things are going to go well.

Look for the Silver Lining!

DON’T MISS THIS: TED BROWN / MICHAEL KANAN QUARTET at SILVER LINING (Sept. 17, 2011)

The Beloved and I will be at Jazz at Chautauqua while this gig is taking place, but we’re sorry to miss it — for these four poetic players and the new room.  I hope that some JAZZ LIVES readers can go and report back . . . . !

“The Ted Brown / Michael Kanan Quartet will be performing this Saturday at New York’s great new Jazz spot, Silver Lining.  The club is an elegant and comfortable room with a great Steinway.  There is no cover or minimum, although we urge you to enjoy the excellent Moroccan influenced cuisine (reasonably priced), or the extensive cocktail selection.”

The players: Ted Brown, tenor sax; Michael Kanan, piano; Murray Wall, bass; Taro Okamoto, drums.  They will perform from 9 PM to midnight.

Silver Lining is at 75 Murray Street (between Greenwich Street and West Broadway) in New York City.  To get there, take the A or the C train to Chambers Street station, and walk 1 and a half blocks west on Murray Street.  Silver Lining is on the north side of the street.

LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING

It’s always exciting to hear of a new club featuring jazz — and this one has all the right ingredients.  The music will be curated by tenor saxophonist Vito Dieterle, someone whose taste I trust.  (I heard Vito several times with Joel Forrester and Claire Daly: Vito’s a late Lestorian who likes to float his own melodies in the air — and a gracious fellow in addition.)  The club itself is inside a 154-year old Tribeca townhouse.  White tablecloths, interesting cocktails, beers, and wines.  A French chef creating small plates full of flavorful food.  A well-tuned piano.  And the best musicians in town.  I mean MUSICIANS.

On Wednesday, August 24, from 9 PM to midnight, Jon-Erik Kellso, Chris Flory, and Kelly Friesen will be there.  That’s a wonderful trio — capable of creating the best kind of seismic disturbances.

Appropriately, this new place is called SILVER LINING, and it’s on 75 Murray St. between Greenwich and West Broadway, 212.513.1234.

I’ll have more to say about looking for — and finding — this SILVER LINING — when we are back in New York City in September . . . and my spies tell me that Michael Kanan and friends will be there one night, too.

The room seats about 100, so you might want to inquire about reservations: enterprises like these are worth supporting.