Talking about the Village, one cannot avoid the night life there. One of the main night spots I remember was a place called Jazz Club. Hiro, a Japanese research fellow living in Newark , NJ was the best guide in the Village. He used to play jazz while he was a medical student in Osaka, Japan and was a walking dictionary about jazz.

Hiro visited my apartment in the Village on Friday evenings. We went out for dinner at Japanese restaurants in mid-Manhattan and then started our jazz club tour in the Village, because jazz clubs usually don't open until 9 pm. The playing sessions are divided to two parts; from 9 pm till the midnight and the midnight till the morning with a short intermission.
The duration of the morning session varies depending on the mood of the players and the audience of the day. You can sit and listen until the end of the session for a reasonable admission fee and one drink.

During the session Hiro talked to me interesting anecdotes about jazz, like Miles Davis had a nasal septum hole due to excessive sniffing of cocaine. Terumasa Hino, a well known Japanese trumpeter, played at the jazz club Seventh Avenue South in those days. We sometimes went there and often found Japanese celebrities among audience.

I rarely visit jazz clubs since having returned to Osaka, but I always remember the Village when I hear jazz music in bar lounges.