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.
Verve Mondays for October 2026 at Kissa Kissa: Ahmad Jamal '73 and Samara Joy's Live at the Blue Note L.A. as advance listens, a lost 1965 Jimmy Smith set, and Nina Simone's I Put a Spell on You -- on vinyl in Crown Heights, with the Jimmy Smith night moved to Sunday, October 11th.
Both turntables at Kissa Kissa run Ortofon Concorde MKII Club cartridges into ModWright tube electronics and Harbeth speakers. On jazz in our all-analog Brooklyn listening room, the sound is like a live performance. Ortofon's full specs are included.
September 23rd is John Coltrane’s hundredth birthday. We’re playing his records all night and giving away copies of the new Ten Speed Press photobook, edited by his son Ravi.
New Land's four-LP box of Charles Mingus' 1961-1962 Birdland radio broadcasts, remastered from the original reels and issued officially for the first time. We play the whole thing on Wednesday, September 30th.
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.
