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Yes, almost fifty years ago. The admission price was $1.75, and you could buy drinks at the bar from 5 PM on. This Wednesday “pre-dinner”
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Coleman Hawkins’ birthday was the 21st of November. Although he’s no longer here to celebrate with us, we continue to celebrate him. He was the
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This is the third segment of music broadcast from “Cabaret La Boheme,” atop Detroit’s Hotel Ponchartrain, featuring Bobby Hackett,
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And how did you spend your Saturday evening? In September 1969, I was entering my senior year in high school, and my parents would not have
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Care to dance, or just listen? Bobby and Vic, circa 1969-70: photographer unknown. What follows may seem almost inconceivable to musicians and
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What is a trumpet (flugelhorn, trombone, and so on) after all except an unforgiving collection of metal tubing through which an idealist propels
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This music is especially poignant — joyous and sad in equal measure — because we lost Dave Frishberg yesterday, November 17, at 88. His last
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In his sixty-year performing career, Earl Hines was never characterized as a timid improviser. No, he was daring — that he had a piano in front of
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The combination of Yaala Ballin, voice, and Michael Kanan, piano, is very special: a swirling-together of melody, joy, and wit in the most
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Texts and source: EICMA News Vmoto Soco JL99 X Jorge Lorenzo unveiled Friday 26 November 2021The wait to get to know Vmoto Soco’s JL99 X project
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This little portion of joy has always been slightly mysterious. And it remains so. When I Googled “Eddie Condon” and “Central Park” and my
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This, the second tune of the evening, was completely prescient, because by the end of the evening the impending drizzle had indeed turned to rain
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It’s so delightful to know that scholars of this music — brilliant young ones! — are carrying on the great work of honoring our collective
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When Louis Armstrong was going to play ‘WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS with his All-Stars, he might say, “Now, ladies and gentlemen, we’re
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Ken Salvo, the stalwart banjoist and guitarist of Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks and many other groups — in Chicago, New York, and Florida —