02 · GALLERY
Five frames.
You find it down a side door off 26th of July, then up a single flight of stairs into a long low room: black walls, mirrors at strange angles, hundreds of mismatched bulbs hanging from black cable. The stage is barely raised. The Cairene crowd is graphic designers, sound engineers, off-duty diplomats, and they take the music seriously. A funk band tonight, an Egyptian-Lebanese fusion trio tomorrow, a touring Berlin DJ on Thursday. The cocktails are tall, the prices are not.
Reserve via cairojazzclub.com. Their satellite room CJC 610 in Sheikh Zayed is the late-late electronic version.
The intimate-atmospheric anchor for North Africa.
Wednesday through Saturday nights. The CJC main programme starts late; the room is at its loudest between 22:30 and 02:00. Avoid Ramadan, programming pauses.
Open Wednesday through Saturday, 20:00 to 03:00. Closed Sunday through Tuesday. Closed during Ramadan and Eid weeks.
Agouza, Giza, west bank of the Nile. From Tahrir Square, ten-minute taxi over the Qasr al-Nil bridge. From Zamalek hotels, fifteen minutes by taxi. The club is on 26th of July Street near El-Galaa Bridge.