Beginning April 6th, Kissa Kissa partners with Verve Records for a 39-week vinyl listening event series celebrating the label's 70th anniversary. Every Monday night -- a new reissue, an exclusive cocktail, and a full evening of curated jazz on vinyl at Brooklyn's only traditional jazz kissa.
Kissa Kissa's 5,000-LP library is not random. Here's the curatorial philosophy behind the collection -- and why every record earned its place on the shelf.
Looking for a Crown Heights date night that's not the usual dinner-and-drinks? Kissa Kissa pairs craft cocktails with vinyl jazz for an evening you'll actually remember.
Streaming taught us to skip. Vinyl taught us to stay. Here's why playing an album from start to finish is one of the most rewarding things you can do with 40 minutes.
Verve Mondays closes April with the first-ever mono vinyl pressing of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme -- mastered from the original analog tapes for the Coltrane 100 centennial. Tonight at Kissa Kissa.
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.
May's Verve Mondays features Astrud Gilberto, Marcos Valle, Yusef Lateef, and Stan Getz -- plus a special Tuesday Coltrane 100 event with the newly reissued Africa/Brass.
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.
On Monday, April 13, Kissa Kissa hosts a pre-release early listening session for Verve's newly-unearthed 3LP set of the Oscar Peterson Trio live at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit, 1960 -- five complete sets with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen, unreleased for 65 years, played in full on vinyl.
From the crate-digger's paradise at Jazz Record Center to the community soul of Human Head in Bushwick -- our guide to the NYC record shops worth the trip.
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.
