![]() We want people to get to know each other and meet each other and exchange phone numbers. “We want to hear champagne glasses clinking. “We want people to mingle,” Lefavre adds. But one thing every performance-at any hour of the night-will have in common? Their social energy. Their hours of operation start at the pre-theater time of 5 p.m. Yet, that’ll just be one type of music on offer: the calendar will boast everything from American songbook medleys to DJ sets. And fittingly, six-time Grammy Nominee and Lady Gaga’s trumpet player Brian Newman serves as the anchoring act, as well as the club’s overall creative director. Not that you’ll necessarily need it-the acoustics are the same as the Appel Room at Lincoln Center and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. A 1962 Steinway piano sits center stage, clearly visible from every seat in the house. The interiors are all done in Aman’s signature Scandinavian-minimalist style: the room, designed by Jean-Michel Gathy, is adorned in muted-yet-moody grays and blacks, with the main source of color coming from the ever-changing LED lights up above. Fully opening on September 6, it seeks to be one of the most elevated nightlife experiences in Manhattan. Much has changed over the years (Birdland’s smoky elegance in the ’50s. From tightly packed bars downtown to spacious dinner clubs uptown, it’s a historic lineage. Jazz joints come and jazz joints goespecially in New York City. Yet, hidden in the bottom bowels of the building-and not accessible via the hotel’s main lifts-is something a little more unexpected: a 3,000-square-foot performance lounge. A brief history of New York City jazz clubs from the 20s to the 90s. (So dedicated are the hotel brand’s fans that they’ve dubbed themselves the “Aman junkies.”) Off the lobby? The standard (albeit spectacular) facilities one would expect from a five-star hotel: a sprawling spa, well-appointed guest rooms, two restaurants, and a rooftop. Yet when the door reopens after you push the former, a whole different world awaits: that of the Aman Jazz Club.įor the uninitiated: this August, Aman New York finally opened after years of fervent anticipation in Midtown’s historic Crown building. ![]() Step inside, and there are only two buttons to press-one that goes up, the other, down. ![]() In a corner? An unremarkable black elevator exterior. The walls are stark, the lights fluorescent, the industrial corridor awash in concrete. On 56th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues-the block immediately behind Manhattan’s famed Billionaire’s Row-is an entryway that looks like it doesn’t belong in such an echelon. ![]()
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