COVID Current List of Open Manhattan Jazz Clubs – OCT. 2021
The light at the end of the tunnel report – We are finding it difficult to pull together jazz tours that can get to three clubs a night within 4-5-hours as we did prior to March 2020. In March 2021 we were able to start touring again – taking guests to live jazz performances in only one club per night, which was a blessing, hearing some of the most joyous nights of music we ever witnessed. Nowadays, we are happy to report that hearing live jazz in two clubs per night is becoming typical on certain nights of the week. Importantly, some regularly scheduled outdoor jazz events have been produced by local heroes throughout the pre-vaccine pandemic to great effect – bringing all-star players into intimate settings with little or no fanfare. These events helped sustain the scene through…
October 7, 2021
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