The Wire
Rooms
Every room, by desk and neighborhood. Every name opens the map.
The Crown Building's basement jazz room: dark, small, and priced like an heirloom.
Upstairs at the Fasano: live bossa and jazz two nights a week, strictly for two.
Two sets, phones away, a room that shushes you.
Old-world supper club; book the early show.
Columbus Circle, fifth floor, big band and park windows.
Lexington and 73rd, red-lit, singers till four, and no phones allowed.
A listening room. Whisper or get glared at.
Cash at the door, three sets a night, musicians playing for each other.
A whiskey library with a low stage and a sound system that respects the horns.
Latin jazz in a room the size of a hallway.
