Berlin
Berlin is famous as a club city. What gets less attention is the live music programme operating under and alongside the club scene. The jazz clubs in Charlottenburg, A-Trane and Quasimodo and Mojo, have been running for decades without fanfare. B-flat in Mitte refuses to amplify its performers and as a result has developed an audience that travels specifically to hear unamplified acoustic jazz in a city of 140-decibel clubs.
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Berlin's finest jazz club has operated in a small space near Savignyplatz since 1992. The Monday night session attracts working musicians from across Europe. The bar programme is strong. Reservations essential on weekends.
Acoustic jazz and improvised music in a small venue on Rosenthaler Strasse. No amplification. The intimacy is the point.
Underground jazz club beneath a record shop in west Berlin, open since 1975. The city's oldest continuously operating music venue of its kind.
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