Smoke & Brass: Jazz Cellar Sessions

A vaulted cellar, a quartet and two sets of hard bop. The second set starts when the first one ends, which is to say whenever the band decides it has finished, usually somewhere after midnight.

Kellerbar Sieben is twenty-two steps down from Siebensterngasse: brick arches, a low ceiling that makes the drums sound twice their size and a single amber spotlight that finds the trumpet and loses everyone else. There is a short bar along one wall, a few stools along the other and a lot of standing in between. Get there early if you want to lean on something.

Expect the classic Blue Note repertoire played loud and close, a couple of originals, and one ballad in each set so the room can breathe. Cash and card at the bar. Not step-free.