Liana Flores plays her new Verve EP And so it goes... in full at Kissa Kissa on Thursday, September 3, a day before release. Doors 5:30 PM, free, no cover. Crown Heights.
Brooklyn pianist Chris McCarthy plays his new album Too Late to Quit front to back at Kissa Kissa on Tuesday, September 22. Doors 5:30, free, no cover. Crown Heights.
Tenor saxophonist Bennie Wallace brings French Postcard to Kissa Kissa on Tuesday, September 8, with bassist Peter Washington. Free, no cover, Crown Heights Brooklyn.
Two nights of bossa nova on vinyl at Kissa Kissa with Verve Records — August 25 and 26. Doors 5:30, featured records at 7. Free, no cover. Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Two nights at Kissa Kissa playing all seven albums Nina Simone cut for Philips between 1964 and 1967, front to back. Free, no cover, Crown Heights Brooklyn.
Reid Miles designed some 350 Blue Note Records album covers between 1956 and 1967. A visual field guide to the fonts he used most -- Trade Gothic, Franklin Gothic, Ultra Bodoni, News Gothic, Clarendon, Caslon 540 -- and the jazz album covers where they swing hardest.
A guide to Brooklyn's best vinyl listening bars -- from Kissa Kissa in Crown Heights to Eavesdrop in Greenpoint, Bierwax in Prospect Heights, and more.
a listening bar lives or dies by its sound system. here's why we chose harbeth speakers, a modwright tube amp, and a rega turntable -- and what it means for every record we play.
Kissa Kissa owns 20 Shirley Scott records -- more than Miles Davis. Her portrait hangs on our wall. And almost nobody knows her name. Here's why that's a crime.
