Benny Green Plays Solo Piano in a 175-Seat Boston Club

The room holds 175 people and seats every one of them at a table, with no standing room in the house. That layout does something to a solo piano set: the music travels table to table rather than down a hall. Green worked mostly in piano trios across four decades before turning to solo playing, and alone he carries the bass line, the harmony and the time himself. His new album, Renovation, came out September 18 on Sunnyside, recorded live at Dizzy's Club in New York: his first live solo piano record, thirteen tracks, eight of them his own. No setlist is published for this night.

Seating works two ways. Part of the floor sells as general admission, where staff seat you on arrival, first come first served; some table seats can be picked on the seating map when you buy in advance. Food comes off a separate menu of small plates, pizza and salads, with a full bar. To eat before the set, the hotel's Fusion Lounge opens at 5 PM daily and serves a la carte, and Aatma inside Widowmaker Brewing on North Beacon Street keeps its kitchen open until 9 PM. There is no dress code, though the club calls the look casually elegant.

Seats run 35 to 55 dollars and are not refundable; orders cap at ten tickets. If the night has not sold out, the club sells seats at the entrance and charges no service fee. Garage parking in the hotel is 20 dollars, paid at the club door, and all ages are welcome. The club sits on Soldiers Field Road inside the DoubleTree Suites, a 20-minute walk from the Red Line's Central Square station across the River Street Bridge. One show only, at 7 PM; no end time is published.