In the 1940s, there was one integrated jazz club in New York City where all the greats played: Café Society in the West Village.

Today, The Café Society is a straight-ahead jazz quintet led by tenor saxophonist Justin Flynn and vocalist Emily Wade Adams.

Flynn has shared the stage and recorded with jazz legends such as Vincent Herring, Peter Erskine, Joe Locke, Jeff Ballard, and Randy Brecker. Adams's session/toplining work with Mewgenics recently reached #23 on the Billboard jazz charts, and she has headlined with the Cape Cod Symphony, Ray of Light Theater, and at 54 Below.

Together, The Café Society has performed at some of the East Coast’s most prestigious music venues. Highlights include touring their acclaimed Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley tribute across the Northeast and playing the premiere party for Broadway’s "Good Night Oscar" starring Tony-winner Sean Hayes.

Their latest album, "Blame It On My Youth," showcases the group’s craft & scholarship as much as its charm. The recordings were captured in live takes featuring musicians with deep lineage, and mixed/mastered by 4x Grammy winner Dave Darlington (Wayne Shorter, Samara Joy, Herbie Hancock). Recent press heralds their interpretations of the Great American Songbook as "captivating," "classy," "ravishing," "magnetic," "elegant," and "heartfelt," and All About Jazz has highlighted each new release as a "Song of the Day."

That pedigree carries through to the bandstand, where Flynn and Adams are joined by a rotating cast of NYC's most in-demand players.

Regular collaborators include:

• Piano: Rick Germanson (Cannonball Legacy Band, Elvin Jones, Pat Martino), Steve Einerson (Slide Hampton, Brian Lynch), Jeremy Manasia (Jimmy Cobb, Louis Hayes)

• Bass: Jim Greene (Art Farmer, John Hicks), Paul Gill (Diana Krall, Dee Dee Bridgewater)

• Drums: Joe Strasser (George Coleman, Jane Monheit), Aaron Thurston (Kat Edmonson, U.S. State Dept. Jazz Ambassador)

• Guitar: Matt Chertkoff (Jimmy Cobb, Freddy Cole), John Merrill (Junior Mance, Professor Cunningham)

clients + venues

Feinstein’s 54 Below / One Flight Up / Uncle Cheef / Cotuit Center for the Arts / The Intercontinental New York Barclay Hotel / The Rum House / The Roxy Hotel / Club Room @ the SoHo Grand / Special Club / The Bowery Hotel / The Core Club / The Refinery Hotel / E&J Gallo Winery / Liquor.com / Woodford Reserve / Wellfleet Preservation Hall / Spire Center / The Counting Room / The Green Building