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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

America's oldest continuing jazz supper club hides down a Georgetown alley. Blues Alley opened in 1965 in an eighteenth-century red brick carriage house off Wisconsin Avenue below M Street in Washington, founded by clarinetist Tommy Gwaltney as a room where concert-hall artists could play the way the 1920s and 30s clubs heard them - close, unamplified by distance, over dinner. The 124-seat room earned the nickname "the house that Dizzy built" for Dizzy Gillespie's decades of patronage, and the r...