Bill's Place
A jazz speakeasy in a brownstone parlor, on the block where Billie Holiday was discovered.
- Where
- 148 W 133rd St, Harlem Open in Google Maps ↗
- Door
- Set fee, cash
- Good with
- A date · Solo · Groups
- Go on
- Fri · Sat
- Sounds like
- Jazz
Bill Saxton plays tenor in the front room of a brownstone on 133rd Street, which in the 1920s was Swing Street and had a speakeasy in almost every basement. One of them is where Billie Holiday was first heard.
About forty chairs, no bar, no stage. You bring your own bottle and you sit close enough to hear the keys move. There is nothing else like it in New York.
What to know
Cash, BYOB, book ahead. Two sets, Friday and Saturday.
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