PENNSYLVANIA Jazz Clubs

DELAWARE WATER GAP

Deer Head Inn. 5 Main Street [The Deer Head Inn, home of jazz in the Pocono Mountains for more than 50 years and the oldest continuously running jazz club in the country, is now under new management. The new owners, Denny Carrig, Bob Mancuso, Jason Wilson, and Mary Carrig, took over at the helm in October 2005. Some new and exciting changes are underway, such as restoring the Inn to its former elegant state. The Deer Head Inn’s music focus will continue to be jazz. Join us for an entertaining evening of great music, food, lodging, and ambience.]
 

JIM THORPE

Vic's Jazz Loft. 268 W Broadway. Tel: 570-325-5588.

PHILADELPHIA

Chris' Jazz Cafe. 1421 Sansom St. Tel: 215 568 3131 [contact: Mark DeNinno, Mgr. Jazz Club/Restaurant with headlining acts such as Pat Martino,John Swana,James Moody, Joey DeFrancesco,Eric Alexander,Jimmy Bruno to name only a few.Open 6 days a week 11:00 am to 2:00 am serving lunch/dinner/late menu. Voted Best of Philly 2002 as casual Jazz venue and listed in 100 Best Jazz Clubs in the world by Down Beat]
 

South Restaurant & Jazz Club. 600 N Broad St, {The Jazz Club at SOUTH is an intimate space with under 75 seats. It is the place to see your favorite Jazz artists up close and personal.}

The Philadelphia Clef Club Of Jazz And Performing Arts. 736-38 S. Broad Street (Avenue of The Arts), Tel: 215-893-9912 Fax 215-893-9917. [The mission of the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts, Inc. is to further the level of art and culture in the community. We wish to accomplish this goal through promoting the development of talent and providing opportunities for the growth of the performing artist specifically, with a special emphasis in instrumentalists. We seek to serve the artist and the community through providing a forum for the listening and appreciation of the great American Art Form of JAZZ and related disciplines. We also wish to promote the academic exchange of information related to JAZZ through educational programs. Finally, The Clef Club will be a depository to collect and preserve the history of JAZZ music for further research and interpretation by scholars, educators, artists, and the general public.]
 

Ortlieb's Jazz Haus. 847 N 3d st. 922-1035. [Tucked in a desolate corner on the edge of Philadelphia's hipsterish Northern Liberties neighborhood, Ortlieb's is an easy joint to miss. A dozen blocks from Independence Hall, it is centuries removed from the city's tidy Colonial core. Once the lunchroom for the now-shuttered Ortlieb's brewery, with dark wood walls and latticed wooden beam ceiling, it still has the cozy feel of a Bavarian hunting lodge, complete with a mounted buffalo head peering over the drummer's shoulder.
But once you pass through the nondescript door, the club makes up for its lederhosen legacy with a bona fide jazz cool that attracts, Boone says, "some pretty heavy cats." ]
 

PLAINS

River Street Jazz Cafe 665 North River Street. Tel: 717-822-2992. Fax: 717-821-9841 [Blues, jazz, RB, funk music in a unique atmosphere. Attracts national acts. Great place to see original regional talent. Best live music in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area. Dinner and late night menu. Open Wed - Sat]