Beginning April 6th, Kissa Kissa partners with Verve Records for a 39-week vinyl listening event series celebrating the label's 70th anniversary. Every Monday night -- a new reissue, an exclusive cocktail, and a full evening of curated jazz on vinyl at Brooklyn's only traditional jazz kissa.
Reid Miles designed some 350 Blue Note Records album covers between 1956 and 1967. A visual field guide to the fonts he used most -- Trade Gothic, Franklin Gothic, Ultra Bodoni, News Gothic, Clarendon, Caslon 540 -- and the jazz album covers where they swing hardest.
Chet Baker recorded five albums in one week in August 1965. New Land Records just reissued them as an all-analog 5LP box set mastered by Kevin Gray. We're spinning the full set June 23 + 24 at Kissa Kissa.
Five Mondays of Verve vinyl in June 2026 at Kissa Kissa: Joe Gordon, Gabor Szabo, a double Ella Fitzgerald Songbook night, Nina Simone live at Carnegie Hall, and the Coleman Hawkins-Ben Webster tenor summit.
Kissa Kissa's 5,000-LP library is not random. Here's the curatorial philosophy behind the collection -- and why every record earned its place on the shelf.
Looking for a Crown Heights date night that's not the usual dinner-and-drinks? Kissa Kissa pairs craft cocktails with vinyl jazz for an evening you'll actually remember.
Streaming taught us to skip. Vinyl taught us to stay. Here's why playing an album from start to finish is one of the most rewarding things you can do with 40 minutes.
Verve Mondays closes April with the first-ever mono vinyl pressing of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme -- mastered from the original analog tapes for the Coltrane 100 centennial. Tonight at Kissa Kissa.
A guide to Brooklyn's best vinyl listening bars -- from Kissa Kissa in Crown Heights to Eavesdrop in Greenpoint, Bierwax in Prospect Heights, and more.
