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Dizzy's Club

A 140-seat jazz room at Jazz at Lincoln Center with Central Park views, dinner service, and close-range listening.

Upcoming shows
71
Address
10 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019
Phone
(212) 258-9595
Next show
Tue, 29 Sept 2026
Dizzy's Club in New York City

About Dizzy's Club

Dizzy’s Club is a 140-seat room at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, built for close-up listening and set high above Columbus Circle with Central Park and Manhattan skyline views. Its distinguishing feature is that pairing of a small jazz-club scale with a purpose-designed performance space inside Frederick P. Rose Hall: bamboo-lined curves, clear sightlines, tables, bar seats, and a stage close enough for the musical conversation to carry across the room.

A club born on Dizzy’s birthday

The story begins with Jazz at Lincoln Center, which grew from a Lincoln Center summer concert series launched in 1987 and became an official Lincoln Center department in 1991. Under artistic director Wynton Marsalis, the organization engaged architect Rafael Viñoly and acoustic engineers for Frederick P. Rose Hall, a 100,000-square-foot home that opened in fall 2004 with Dizzy’s as one of its three performance spaces. The club opened on October 21, 2004, carrying the original name Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola and honoring trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. Its first night gave pianist Bill Charlap, bassist Peter Washington, drummer Kenny Washington, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, and alto saxophonist Charles McPherson the bandstand; the engagement launched a three-week Dizzy Gillespie Festival. That opening establishes the room’s basic proposition: a formal Lincoln Center project shaped around the club-scale ensemble, late sets, food, and audience proximity associated with jazz listening.

The room today

Dizzy’s programs live jazz seven nights each week, making it a strong choice for small-group swing, modern jazz, vocal sets, and Latin-leaning jazz programs. Weeknight service centers on 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. sets, while Sundays shift earlier. Seating is first come within table or bar categories, and shared tables are part of the house style. The curved bamboo walls and skyline-facing windows give the room its visual character; the practical advantage for concertgoers is an intimate layout where every seat is intended to face the stage. Full-service dining runs alongside the music.

Sources

  1. History — Jazz at Lincoln Center
  2. Visit our venue: Dizzy's Club — Jazz at Lincoln Center
  3. Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces 2014–15 Season — Jazz at Lincoln Center Press Center
  4. Jazz at Lincoln Center Opens Club With Salute to Dizzy Gillespie — Playbill
  5. Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola Hosts Gillespie Festival — DownBeat
  6. Dizzy’s FAQ — Jazz at Lincoln Center

Next 15 shows

  • Tue, 29 Sept 2026 · 19:00 YoungArts 45th Anniversary Jazz Celebration + Emmet Cohen & Friends View in the CrowdMate app
  • Wed, 30 Sept 2026 · 19:00 Dawid Lubowicz + Mateusz Smoczynski, Michal Zaborski, Krzysztof Lenczowski View in the CrowdMate app
  • Thu, 1 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Paula West + Sean Conley, Freddie Bryant, Jerome Jennings View in the CrowdMate app
  • Fri, 2 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Paula West + Sean Conley, Freddie Bryant, Jerome Jennings View in the CrowdMate app
  • Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Paula West + Sean Conley, Freddie Bryant, Jerome Jennings View in the CrowdMate app
  • Sun, 4 Oct 2026 · 17:00 Deborah Grace Winer + Jon Weber, Karen Ziemba, Matthew Scott, Vanisha Gould, Jay Leonhart, Sam Chess, Mark McLean View in the CrowdMate app
  • Mon, 5 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Ted Nash + Okema T. Moore, Brad Mason, Chris Rogers, Anthony Hervey, James Haddad, Matt McDonald, Jen Krupa, Jacob Melsha, Steve Kenyon, Veronica Leahy, Ron Blake, Ben Kono, Carl Maraghi, Adam Birnbaum, Luques Curtis, Domo Branch View in the CrowdMate app
  • Tue, 6 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Doug Wamble + Wycliffe Gordon, John Murray, Beckett Miles View in the CrowdMate app
  • Wed, 7 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Papo Vázquez + Jose Mangual, Ivan Renta, Rick Germanson, Carlos Mena, Alvester Garnett, Carlos Maldonado, Jose Claussell View in the CrowdMate app
  • Thu, 8 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Papo Vázquez + Jose Mangual, Ivan Renta, Rick Germanson, Carlos Mena, Alvester Garnett, Carlos Maldonado, Jose Claussell View in the CrowdMate app
  • Fri, 9 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Akira Tana + Skylar Tang, Atsuko Hashimoto, Yutaka Hashimoto View in the CrowdMate app
  • Sat, 10 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Akira Tana + Skylar Tang, Atsuko Hashimoto, Yutaka Hashimoto View in the CrowdMate app
  • Sun, 11 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Akira Tana + Skylar Tang, Atsuko Hashimoto, Yutaka Hashimoto View in the CrowdMate app
  • Mon, 12 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Steven Feifke View in the CrowdMate app
  • Tue, 13 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Corcoran Holt + Freddie Hendrix, Abraham Burton, Benito Gonzalez, Kweku Sumbry View in the CrowdMate app

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