While the new space may not be quite as intimate as the old club around the corner on Ashley, it's a cozy spot to listen to music. A blue neon sign leads you from Main Street down 16 stairs, where the basement environment gives the club an authentic flavor that will remind the cognoscenti of the Village Vanguard in New York. You enter into a small bar area that doubles as a waiting area for the larger, adjacent music room. If you don't want to pay the cover, you can hang in the bar. The main music room is L-shaped.
Sight lines are good and so are the acoustics.
Capacity is about 200. It looks better with the lights low, but it's a comfortable place to hear music, and that's why you're there anyway. Sundays are jam session nights. Weekends rotate, and the national acts tend to show up later in the week. The usual jazz club mixture of hard-core fans, couples, college students, curiosity seekers and paunchy hipsters who can't wait to tell you they once heard Miles at the Vanguard in 1965.