Duke Ellington

Marjorie Eliot, Bob Cunningham, and Gerald Hayes from back in the day at Parlor Entertainment – 555 Edgecombe, Apt. #3F   We wanted to tip our hat to Marjorie Eliot who started Parlor Entertainment over 3 decades ago and by all accounts hasn’t missed a Sunday since the beginning.  In fact, the Covid lock-down period…

I was wondering if ChatGPT, the latest Artificial Intelligence phenomenon, would be a useful tool for blogging about jazz subjects that I’m interested in, so I started a chat about Billie Holiday and I found out that it was an unreliable source of accurate information.  I would ask it a question like, are there any…

 If you’re a hopeless romantic pining for a sepia toned, 100 year ago version of New York City you will marvel at how well-preserved Harlem still appears to be.  If coming from the laughably tall and thin sky-scraper race to the clouds on 57th Street, it’s strangely comforting to note that the buildings on the…

Showmans, Harlem’s last Hammond B-3 organ lounge. Closed due to the Covid-19 Pandemic   During the months following the “stay at home” orders that kept New York City quieter than it had ever been, I ventured out briefly to see for myself what was happening on 125th Street, one of the busiest boulevards in Harlem….

We woke up to the devastating news of a deadly fire last night in Harlem on the set of a Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Willem Dafoe, Leslie Mann movie called Motherless Brooklyn.  With that kind of star power glaring their vision, what reporters so far have overlooked is that the charred set of…