Smoke Jazz Club

What Smoke Jazz Club does

Smoke Jazz Club is a privately held live jazz venue and supper club operating since approximately 2002 at 2751 Broadway on Manhattan's Upper West Side (the corner known as Duke Ellington Boulevard). The venue closed during the COVID-19 pandemic and reopened in 2022 with an expanded footprint that now comprises two adjoining spaces: a candlelit, acoustically tuned Listening Room hosting ticketed sets by legendary performers, modern masters, and rising stars, and a connected Lounge with full bar and cafe seating plus a seasonal Parisian-style Sidewalk Cafe. Offerings include signature American cuisine under Executive Chef Molly Sparrow Johnson, in-house dining and takeout, a daily Wednesday-through-Sunday Happy Hour, and live streaming of performances. An associated record label, Smoke Sessions Records, extends proprietary programming into recorded releases.

The business runs on a direct-to-consumer model with no proprietary technology platform; core systems are standard hospitality and point-of-sale. Revenue is generated through live music ticket sales (dinner shows requiring a minimum entree purchase; standing room with a $20 consumption minimum), food and beverage sales (dine-in and takeout), happy hour transactions ($7-$14 price points), live-stream subscriptions, and ancillary label revenue. Primary customer segments are jazz enthusiasts and live music lovers, dining and nightlife patrons, and general NYC visitors and Upper West Side locals, with acquisition driven by word-of-mouth in the NYC jazz community, multi-platform social media (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok), email newsletter retention, and a website that serves as the primary ticketing and information portal.

The company employs 11-50 staff at a single New York City location, has no disclosed parent company, subsidiaries, investors, or funding history, and reports no revenue, patents, regulatory actions, or major leadership changes in available source material. The primary structural risk is single-venue concentration in one US geography; the primary asset is 20-plus years of brand and programming equity in NYC's jazz market.

Name

Smoke Jazz Club

Legal name

Smoke Jazz Club

Website

https://smokejazz.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Smoke Jazz Club is a 20-year-old private live jazz venue on Manhattan's Upper West Side combining nightly ticketed performances with American dining, a seasonal sidewalk cafe, happy hour service, live streaming, and an associated record label.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Live Jazz Venue and Supper Club

NAICS

Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (722410)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Live Music Clubs & Venues (MPAGAIAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Live Music Bars & Venues (CRANACAH)

Keywords

• Live jazz venue
• Jazz supper club
• Live music performances
• Dining and cocktails
• Happy hour bar

Headquarters

HQ city

New York, New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Live music ticket sales: Tickets required for listening room performances. Dinner shows require minimum entrée purchase per person. Standing room tickets available at discounted rates with $20 consumption minimum for 10pm sets.
2. Food and beverage sales: In-house dining with seasonal dinner specials, cocktails, wine, and takeout services. Wednesday-Thursday-Sunday 4pm-9pm, Friday-Saturday 4pm-10:30pm operating hours.
3. Happy hour service: Special happy hour promotion from 4-6:30pm Wednesday through Sunday featuring discounted spritzes, wine carafes, and bar bites.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Smoke Jazz Club operates a single live jazz venue on Manhattan's Upper West Side featuring a candlelit listening room with renowned acoustics, plush red velvet curtains, exposed brick, and antique chandeliers. It hosts nightly jazz performances by legendary and emerging artists, offers full-service American dining (dine-in and takeout) led by Executive Chef Molly Sparrow Johnson, runs a happy hour program, operates a Parisian-style sidewalk café and adjacent lounge, and sells associated recordings through Smoke Sessions Records.

Product overview

Smoke Jazz Club operates as a single-venue entertainment and hospitality business combining live jazz music performances with American dining services. The core offering consists of a world-class listening room venue for jazz performances, supplemented by an adjacent Sidewalk Cafe & Lounge for casual dining and drinks, and a Happy Hour program. Additional offerings include live streaming of performances, takeout dining services, and an associated record label (Smoke Sessions Records). The venue reopened in 2022 after expansion, now featuring two adjoining spaces: a dedicated listening room with acoustics and candlelit dining, and a connected lounge with café seating.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• The Cafe & Lounge at SMOKE: The Parisian-style Sidewalk Café and intimate indoor Lounge offering seasonal cuisine, craft cocktails, and wine in a warm, inviting atmosphere separate from the main listening room.
• Smoke Sessions Records

Quantifiable outcome

• Affordable jazz access: customers can enjoy happy hour and standing room music for less than a NYC movie with popcorn

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Dizzy's Club: Jazz club at Jazz at Lincoln Center featuring nightly performances with full dining service and skyline views. Comparable to Smoke as a ticketed, dining-plus-jazz listening venue in NYC.
• Blue Note Jazz Club: Iconic NYC jazz club featuring world-class performers alongside food and beverage service. Directly comparable to Smoke as a ticketed listening room with dining, located in a major NYC neighborhood.
• Birdland: Midtown Manhattan jazz club with dinner service and named after the historic Birdland ballroom. Direct competitor to Smoke in NYC's jazz-and-dining venue category.
• Village Vanguard: Legendary basement jazz club in Greenwich Village running live programming nightly. Comparable to Smoke as a long-established, single-room NYC jazz venue built around an intimate listening experience.
• Smalls Jazz Club: West Village basement jazz club featuring nightly live performances in an intimate setting. Closely comparable to Smoke's listening-room model and similar Upper Manhattan/West Side positioning.
• Rockwood Music Hall: Lower East Side NYC music venue operating three stages with ticketed live performances nightly. Comparable to Smoke as an intimate Manhattan live music venue focused on showcasing performers in a small-room format.
• Joe's Pub: NYC live music venue inside The Public Theater hosting nightly ticketed performances with full bar and food service. Comparable to Smoke as a ticketed listening room with dinner and cocktail service.
• Zinc Bar: Long-running NYC jazz and world music venue with full bar and live performances nightly. Comparable to Smoke as a single-room ticketed jazz venue in Manhattan operating multiple nights per week.
• The Iridium: NYC jazz and blues club near Lincoln Center with dinner service and ticketed performances. Comparable to Smoke as an Upper West Side-adjacent jazz venue combining live music and full dining.

Broad incumbents

• House of Blues: National chain of live music venues combining ticketed performances with full dining and bar service. Comparable to Smoke as a ticketed concert-and-dining venue, though broader in scale and focused on rock, blues, and pop rather than jazz.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/SmokeJazzClubNYC
• Facebookfacebook.com/SMOKE-Jazz-Club-360818217796
• Instagraminstagram.com/smokejazzclub
• TikToktiktok.com/@smokejazzclub
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/smoke-jazz-club

Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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