Blue Hour
rye · amontillado · chicory · orange oil
16Below Canal & MercyNew Orleans · 1:07 AM
No cover after midnight
TheBlue HourClub
Come in quietly. The first note has already left the horn.
38 seats03 players∞ last set
On the bandstand
Mira Bell
after midnight
Three players, one dim room, and standards bent until the blue shows through.
Live from the cellarRoom tone
Thursday · 09 July
Three sets.
One long night.
Doors at 10:30Walk-ins welcome
- 42 min
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
A slow entrance: Porter, Monk, then Mira’s “Mercy Street Nocturne.”
- 51 min
The Pocket Turns Blue
Ellis leads a bass-forward suite for the last train nobody took.
- until
After the Last Call
No printed charts. Requests arrive folded beneath the candle.
BH–0709 No two choruses played the same way twice. House program · 25¢
The room remembers
A basement
with a memory.
The Blue Hour began in 1959 with twelve chairs, an upright that leaned left, and a promise that nobody would rush the final chorus.
That piano is still here. So are the low ceiling, the velvet curtain repaired by hand, and the back booth where Lena Hart wrote half of Soft Weather. We’ve added better ice and exactly four more tables.
“The kind of room that makes a whisper sound arranged.— The Crescent Review, 1978
OPEN10:30pm→3:00am
Find the blue door
Stay for
one more.
14 Mercy AlleyNew Orleans, LA 70130
Thursday–Sunday · 21+
No reservations after midnight.
The bell is beneath the brass plate.
House notes
- Phones stay dark during sets.
- Musicians drink on the house.
- Applause belongs after the last note.
- There is always room for one.