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[HardyandTiny]

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2004/02/17/200402170021.asp

Premiere jazz club to open in Seoul

Blue Note, the most distinguished brand name in jazz, will open a club in Seoul next month, importing a roster of top names in jazz and blues.

Located in Shinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Blue Note will open its doors on March 22 with pianist Joe Sample and his legendary jazz-fusion band, The Crusaders.

The flagship club in New York's Greenwich Village has played host to virtually everyone who is anyone in contemporary jazz such as Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Chick Corea, Natalie Cole, Oscar Peterson, Joshua Redman, Ron Carter, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, and the Count Basie Orchestra, to name a few.

Though primarily a showcase for jazz, Blue Note also features blues, Latin, Fusion, R&B, and contemporary music with performers as varied as B.B. King to Tito Puentes Jr. to the hip-hop group, The Roots.

Blue Note is the world's only jazz club franchise with locations in New York, Las Vegas, Japan, and Europe and was created under the auspices of the Blue Note jazz recording label in 1981. It has become famous for high-quality jazz and dining in an intimate nightclub setting. Blue Note will be the franchise's seventh club.

Though it will join the ranks of such high-end jazz clubs in Seoul like Once in a Blue Moon in Apgujong and One Thousand Years in Daehagno, Blue Note says that it's ability to draw top names is likely to bring the quality of Korean jazz to an unprecedented level.

"What will distinguish Blue Note Seoul is that it can book famous international stars through its network in New York and elsewhere," says Jun Myung-ji, Blue Note's press officer.

For more information, visit www.bluenotejazz.co.kr or www.jazzwinger.com.

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By Warren Lee





2004.02.17

[kangnamdragon]

This is good information to read. Thank you.

[HardyandTiny]

Hopefully the standard entrance fee will not be too high.
Someone told me VIP membership will be close to 10 million. I have no idea what VIP membership means but I certainly won't be buying it.

[seoulmon]

This is such amazing news! I just happen to be in the right place at the right time! You know, I've never had money like I do now. Plus, I've never been in a "jazz center." I'm still not, but, well, with a place like Blue Note, well, maybe I am!