“Harry’s Jazz Club”

London Lost Music Venues: Jazz 05 – Bass Clef
Address: 35 Coronet Street, London N1.
Dates: 1984 to 1994.
Capacity: 200 [1990].
Past Use: Was Wave Studios immediately prior to opening as a live music venue.
Current Use: Bluu Bar since 2002.

Bassist Peter Ind opened the Bass Clef in his Hoxton recording studio in September 1984. It featured Jazz, African and Latin music. A sister venue, the Tenor Clef at 1 Hoxton Square, was added in 1991. All of the new generation of British Jazz musicians played here, and some American guests. With the acid house boom there were also DJ nights. The recession killed the venues. In February 1994 the receivers were called in, with the last music in the May. The venues were bought by the record label Acid Jazz, and knocked together as the Blue Note (capacity 480) who continued the DJ sessions. The Blue Note was in Hoxton between 1995 and 1998. Noise complaints led to a move to Kings Cross in Mean Fiddler group premises. Then a dispute with Mean Fiddler led to the end of the Blue Note.