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.
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.
Five Verve reissues light up Mondays in August 2026 at Kissa Kissa -- Roy Ayers Ubiquity, George Benson, Freddie Hubbard, Shelly Manne, and Art Farmer -- including a George Benson pre-release advance listen. Heard on vinyl, every Monday night in Crown Heights.
July brings orchestral adventure, Latin-jazz cool, and effortless swing to Verve Mondays at Kissa Kissa. Four records, four Mondays: Gil Evans, Cal Tjader, the Oscar Peterson Trio, and Astrud Gilberto.
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.
Chet Baker recorded five albums in one week in August 1965. New Land Records just reissued them as an all-analog 5LP box set mastered by Kevin Gray. We're spinning the full set June 23 + 24 at Kissa Kissa.
Five Mondays of Verve vinyl in June 2026 at Kissa Kissa: Joe Gordon, Gabor Szabo, a double Ella Fitzgerald Songbook night, Nina Simone live at Carnegie Hall, and Coleman Hawkins and his confrères.
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.
