Second “Louie” Awards Gala: New York, NY, December 4, 2012
Louis Armstrong House Museum 2012 Gala The Manhattan Penthouse New York, NY December 4, 2012 While waiting their turn to play as the Louis Armstrong Centennial Band, trumpeter/vocalist Bria Skonberg, clarinetist Anat Cohen, trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, banjoist James Chirillo, tubaist David Ostwald and drummer Marion Felder enjoyed a great meal before the Second ...
Did Les Lieber Play Jazz at Noon for the Last Time?
Les Lieber and Friends Jazz at Noon The Players New York, NY June 3, 2011
At age 99,Les Lieber was feted with lots of applause at The Players in New York City's Gramercy Park, because of a May 5, 2011 feature article by Corey Kilgannon in the New York Times, featuring the ...
Lest We Forget: Remembering Myrna Lake at the Lenox Lounge 2006
In his All About Jazz review of Yesterdays (Jazzing Music, 2008), Samuel Chell described singer Myrna Lake's recording as “an exploration of the power of memory itself, a musical narrative yielding the discovery that memory, like the songs that are eventually designated standards, is a moment in the present, an instant distinguished by heightened awareness and ...
Love Songs by Champian Fulton
The Champian Fulton Trio Birdland New York City, USA December 16, 2010
“Please welcome Champian Fulton," Birdland's proprietor, John Valente, announced at six o'clock on Thursday night, December 16th, 2010. Why the unusual early start time? Hush, hush, Fulton had arranged to showcase her trio for Palmetto Records.
Opening with “No One Loves ...
Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet
Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet Randall Sandke Hardcover; 288 pages ISBN: 0-8108-6652-8 Scarecrow Press 2010 In Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet, musician and author Randall Sandke tackles the stubborn and controversial question of whether jazz is the product of an ...
Lee Konitz Quartet: Spontaneous Improvisation
Lee Konitz Quartet Jazz Legacy Series Creole Music Supper Club New York, NY March 21, 2009
For two nights Lee Konitz was improvising at Creole Restaurant, Third Avenue at 116th Street in Harlem's Barrio. On the Saturday, March 21st 10pm show Mickey Bass introduced the Quartet as part of his Brownstone Entertainment ...
Sidney Bechet Society Concert with Evan Christopher, NYC
Creole a la Django Thalia Theater, Symphony Space New York City September 15, 2008
It is unusual for the clarinet, the smallest and hardest-to hear-instrument in a jazz ensemble, to be in the forefront. But Evan Christopher has brought the musical stick front and center in the various sized ensembles he ...
Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks at Club Cache, NYC
Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks Club Cache at Sofia's Restaurant, Edison Hotel (downstairs) New York City May 5, 2008
Sofia's Restaurant, Club Cache at 221 W. 46th Street, NYC last saw music of this ilk--improvised jazz instrumentalists favoring the swing-jazz rhythms of the 1920s and 1930s--so many years ago in ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center: "Is Jazz Black Music?"
Lewis Porter, Moderator; with Don Byron, Daniel Carter and Nat Hentoff Jazz Talk: Is Jazz Black Music? Irene Diamond Education Center New York, New York January 31, 2008
Is Jazz Black Music? “Where does jazz come from, to whom does it belong and is this important?" The program, advertised ...
Nnenna Freelon and Evidence Dance Celebrate Lady Day at Apollo Premiere
Nnenna Freelon, Ronald K. Brown and Evidence Dance Company The Blueprint of a Lady Apollo Theater, NYC November 10, 2007
Subtitled “The Once and Future Life of Billie Holiday," a concept of vocalist Nnenna Freelon in collaboration with choreographer-dancer Ronald K. Brown and his Evidence Dance Company, the occasion was ...
Don Friedman & Gary Smulyan Play Hot and Cool Together
Don Friedman Trio with Gary Smulyan Kitano Lounge New York, NY March 9, 2007
Without any fanfare Don Friedman's piano a cappella intro to “Alone Together intricately established the melody and sequence of his first performance on Friday the 9th of March 2007 before the evening's lead instrument, an antique ...
Santa Jazzes Uptown Harlem at St. Nick's Jam
On Christmas-day night at St. Nick's Pub, Melvin Vines (for three years the Monday & Tuesday night bandleader, trumpeter, videographer) opened the 11 o'clock show playing a flugelhorn improv in response to news of James Brown's passing, joined by the unobtrusive comping of Chip Crawford (recently with Harold Ousley at Dizzy's, originally influenced by Donald Byrd) ...
92 Street Y Continuum: From Dick Hyman to Bill Charlap
Dick Hyman and Bill Charlap, Jazz in July, Kaufman Hall, Tisch Center for the Arts, New York, New York, July 19, 2006
“20 years on a wonderful carousel ride is enough, pianist/producer, Dick Hyman mused for a New York Sun reporter upon retiring, at age 77, from New ...
Hot Harlem Swing From The Savoy Still Attracting Lindy Hoppers
Social Swing Dance Savoy Ballroom at Irving Plaza New York, NY March 12, 2006
Harlem's swing jazz is still the heartbeat of swing dance, a craze that originated in the 1930s taking its name from a transatlantic flyer. In the 1980s it experienced a resurgence in popularity and continues to ...
