Lounges in Paris

Duc des Lombards is Paris's most serious jazz club — a 160-capacity Châtelet venue presenting nightly performances by the world's finest jazz musicians in a concentrated Rue des Lombards corridor of jazz clubs that makes Paris's Châtelet the most important jazz street in Europe. The club's history of presenting artists from Chet Baker to Herbie Hancock to Wynton Marsalis in intimate settings reflects France's deep cultural investment in jazz as a legitimate art form deserving the same respect as classical music.

Le Caveau de la Huchette is Paris's oldest jazz club — a Latin Quarter jazz cellar operating continuously since 1947 in a medieval stone vault where the Paris bebop scene was born and where swing and traditional jazz still plays seven nights a week. The club's extraordinary historical continuity, cave-like medieval atmosphere, and the sight of Parisians and tourists dancing swing in a stone cellar under the Saint-Michel streets creates one of the most authentically atmospheric live music experiences in Europe.

Sunset-Sunside is a unique double jazz club on Paris's Rue des Lombards — two performance spaces in the same building presenting acoustic jazz (Sunside upstairs, 80 capacity) and amplified electric jazz and world music (Sunset in the basement, 100 capacity) simultaneously every night. As one of the most active jazz venues in Europe with programming 300+ nights per year, Sunset-Sunside embodies Paris's extraordinary commitment to jazz culture and the rue des Lombards' unique identity as the jazz street of the world's most culturally serious city.