Ivan Nagy Serenading Dizzy Gillespie at Oops! the Wrong Door
The year is 1976. Dad, Ivan Nagy is away. He’s on a European tour across Scandinavia for three months. We won’t get to see him... Read More
Music
Jackie Mc: Reflections of a Jazz Revivalist on his Birthday
The late anthropologist and long time student of transformative social movements, Dr. Luther P. Gerhlach, demonstrated that those movements among human beings which change people’s... Read More
The Gateways Music Festival Triumph and A. D. Lee Koonce
During the month of April, the Gateways Music Festival presented a series of concerts at venues throughout Manhattan. ROUTES followed the festival sending several of... Read More
The Gateways Orchestra Brought Decades of Struggle to a Peak
On a sunny clear day in April, my managing editor and I met up in the lobby of Carnegie Hall. We were there not just... Read More
Reveries of an Enchanted Evening with Maestro Duke Ellington
April 29th will mark the 123rd anniversary of the birth of Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington. Standing outside the elegant brick and stone building on St.... Read More
African-American Pianists at the Gateways Music Festival
In the shadows of the behemoth Lincoln Center complex, located just of Broadway at 65th Street is a smaller musical resource known as the Elaine... Read More
Gateways Music Festival: A Feast for the Ears and the Eyes
“Hats Off” to the Gateways Festival for a rather enjoyable and enlightening Saturday, April 23rd, in the East Village of Manhattan. First the agenda was... Read More
Imani Winds perform at Abyssinian Baptist Church
The Gateways Music Festival’s first performance in New York City, after its tour in Rochester, began with the Grammy Award nominated Imani Winds at the historic Abyssinian... Read More