[1] On its 10th anniversary the club's namesake festival presented what it calls the Nublu Sound, a combination of jazz, African, South American, Caribbean, electronic, and dance music.
[2][3] Among the bands associated with Nublu are The Brazilian Girls, Forro in the Dark, Love Trio, and Wax Poetic.
[11] The house band was Love Trio, the group Ersahin put together in 2002 with Jesse Murphy and drummer Kenny Wollesen who had worked with him at his Saturday brunch jams at Sweet Basil's in the West Village.
[12] Another band at the heart of the Nublu experience in the early days was Wax Poetic, an improvising collective.
A key member of the scene was Butch Morris, the creator of Conduction, who led the Nublu Orchestra from the opening of the club until his death in 2013.