Village Vanguard
Jazz club in New York City / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For Japanese bookstore chain, see Village Vanguard (Japanese bookstore).
The Village Vanguard is a jazz club at Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village, New York City. The club was opened on February 22, 1935, by Max Gordon. Originally, the club presented folk music and beat poetry, but it became primarily a jazz music venue in 1957. It has hosted many highly renowned jazz musicians since then, and today is the oldest operating jazz club in New York City.