In 1972, Mike and Sonny Canterino moved the Half Note Midtown to 149 West 54th Street, in what had formerly been a carriage house.
Bookings included Budd Johnson and Buddy Tate, beboppers Al Cohn and Zoot Sims, avant-gardists John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Wes Montgomery, Herbie Mann and Cannonball Adderley.
Singers Anita O'Day, Billie Holiday, and, one evening Judy Garland also made an appearance.
According to the book "Funny Valentine" by Matthew Ruddick, Chet Baker was a regular performer at The Half Note also.
On June 6, 1964, the Lennie Tristano quintet – with Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Sonny Dallas, and Nick Stabulas – was recorded and broadcast on television as "Jazz at the Half Note", an episode of the television series on CBS, Look Up and Live, narrated by William Hamilton of the Colgate Rochester Divinity School.