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The Iridium Jazz Club is a jazz club located on Broadway in New York City. The club hosts weekly performances by John Colianni, and also featured weekly performances by Les Paul for nearly fifteen years.

The club opened in January 1994 at its original location, at 63rd Street and 8th Avenue, with a minimal cover charge.That first location, known as the "Iridium Room Jazz Club", was a basement room below the Merlot restaurant across from Lincoln Center; it initially booked "traditional, swinging jazz musicians of the second or third level"; Ronald Sturm, the club's manager and booker, told The New York Times his goal was to "hire people like the trumpeter Marcus Printup, or Cyrus Chestnut or Carl Allen  the goal was to give a chance to "younger, mainstream musicians while still booking the legends.

In the opening months of its existence, local, unknown jazz groups and solo artists were given the opportunity to perform in front of ...

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