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.
Impulse! Records gave jazz its avant-garde edge. From Coltrane to Pharoah Sanders, explore the label that made jazz dangerous -- and why its records still matter on vinyl.
Brooklyn has been a home for jazz since the 1930s. Explore the borough's rich jazz history -- from Bed-Stuy's golden age to Crown Heights' vinyl revival.
