Half Note Club

You are approaching the site of the legendary Half Note Club, which stood at the corner of Hudson and Spring Streets from 1957 until 1972. Before it became a jazz institution, the space was a gritty, hard-drinking bar called the Zombie Bar. The Canterino family transformed it into a landmark where jazz legends like John Coltrane and Charles Mingus performed on a stage that was literally constructed from leftover wooden shipping pallets.