Ryles Jazz Club is a jazz club located at 212 Hampshire Street, Cambridge

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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, Boston

Boston

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. Located in a former Italian restaurant, now painted black, it is the oldest jazz club in Cambridge and the second oldest in the Greater Boston area.

It features a mixtures of blues, jazz, R&B, world beat, and Latin in two rooms on two different floors.In recent decades it has become well-noted for its Latin and Brazilian jazz music, featuring Brazilian music on Wednesday nights and salsa and merengue on Thursdays.On Sundays it features a "jazz brunch" between 10 am and 3 pm and the Ryles Jazz Club Orchestra from 4-7 pm. Although mostly featuring local Boston talent, the club has featured notables such as Pat Metheny

Pat Metheny

Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...

, Robben Ford

Robben Ford

Robben Ford is an American blues, jazz and rock guitarist.-Biography:Ford was born in Woodlake, California, United States, but raised in Ukiah, California, and began playing the saxophone at age 10, picking up the guitar at age 13...

, Grover Washington Jr., Olga Roman

Olga Román

Olga Román is a Spanish Latin jazz and pop singer.In 1985, she studied music and graduated from the prestigious Berklee College of Music in 1987. Whilst in Boston she performed at the Ryles Jazz Club. She moved to New York City, where he played the club circuit in Greenwich Village...

, Arturo Sandoval

Arturo Sandoval

Arturo Sandoval is a jazz trumpeter and pianist. He was born in Artemisa, in the newest renamed Artemisa Province, Cuba....

, McCoy Tyner

McCoy Tyner

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, Maynard Ferguson

Maynard Ferguson

Maynard Ferguson was a Canadian jazz musician and bandleader. He came to prominence playing in Stan Kenton's orchestra, before forming his own band in 1957...

, Jon Hendricks

Jon Hendricks

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, Jon Faddis

Jon Faddis

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, Nestor Torres

Nestor Torres

Nestor Torres is a jazz flautist who was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico in 1957. He took flute lessons at age 12 and began formal studies at the Escuela Libre de Música, eventually attending Puerto Rico’s Inter-American University. At 18, he moved to New York with his family...

 and Berklee jazz pianist and professor Ray Santisi

Ray Santisi

Ray Santisi is an American jazz pianist and educator. He performed with people such as Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Mel Torme, Irene Kral, Natalie Cole and many others. The Raleigh, N.C...

is a regular performer at the club.

External links

• Official site