About

A living room, a piano, and an invitation

The Left-Bank West Village Jazz Series began in February 2016 with a harpist, a bassist and a guitarist playing to friends in an apartment on West 11th Street. It has continued at the same address ever since, four or five times a year: a concert of two sets, a bar, food afterwards, and the musicians staying to talk.

The series is not a club and sells no tickets. Guests come by invitation, and the evenings exist so that musicians who play the city's stages can play a room where every listener is close enough to see their hands. In April 2025 the Dom Salvador Quintet was recorded here for the album Live at the Left-Bank West Village Jazz Series.

The host, Cheikh Kane, also organizes concerts in Senegal, where the series has travelled since 2018, and is building Institut Sangalkam, an education center near Dakar.

Recordings and photographs

The concerts are filmed and photographed, but not broadcast. The recordings and the photographs are kept in The Living Space, a private part of this site for the friends of the series and the musicians who played here; the key is shared with them directly.

Contact

To ask about the series or to be added to the invitation list, write to the address on the invitation you received, or to the host directly.