“Bebopping…” The 1st blog blast from the past.
Marcus Persiani, Avi Cohen, Patience Higgins, Wayne Escoffery – St. Nick’s Pub jam session Having just discovered this vintage blog post from the “smoking-in-clubs-days” on an old hard drive, I rush now to chuck it up here to give New York city’s live jazz fans, a chance to feel nostalgic and maybe a little old….
October 21, 2024
WSJ – The Alhambra Ballroom in Harlem
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…
November 12, 2020
Resurrection of our old NYC Jazz Club Bible
Some of our long-time visitors -we’ve been around since the turn of the century- have been missing our big list of NYC jazz clubs, and the content we used to include about each club. As it turns out this information was lingering somewhere in the dark web ready to be resurrected – so here it…
December 2, 2019
The Harlem Jazz Scene – a retrospective on the day after St. Nick’s Pub fire
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…
March 23, 2018
The Billie Holiday Zone – Harlem Singers’ Series
Fridays will never be the same. There’s no place like Harlem and there’s no other vocalist series like this one in the clandestine Gin Fizz – a speakeasy hidden in plain sight. Tickets in cooperation with AirBnB Concerts. Singers Showcase March 16, 2018 at Gin Fizz Boncellia Lewis with Shareef Clayton, trumpet Hilliard Greene, bass Frank Fallon, drums Paul Odeh, keys Gin Fizz, 308 Lenox Ave. (125th / 126th Streets). 2 /3 Subway to 125th Street. Doors: 6:30. 1st set: 7PM. 2nd set: 8:30PM It’s almost impossible to find someone who doesn’t love Billie Holiday. Her voice, her phrasing, her songwriting, her commanding presence, and her life story all compel us toward this devotion. Lady Day stands alone as a figure in popular culture who has left her mark on generation after generation of artists and music lovers…
March 7, 2018