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I’m Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz.
Few jazz venues have shaped the music quite like The Blue Note in New York City. Since opening in 1981, it has become one of the world’s premier jazz rooms—a place where legends and rising stars share the same stage, night after night.
The Blue Note has hosted everyone from Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan to modern innovators who continue to push the music forward.
What makes The Blue Note so important isn’t just its roster of artists—it’s the intimacy of the space, the electric closeness between musician and audience, and its commitment to keeping live jazz at the heart of the city that never sleeps.
This has been Rapp on Jazz—a co-production of ColaJazz and SC Public Radio, made possible by The ETV Endowment of South Carolina.