Bill’s Place, Speakeasies and Billie Holiday on Swing Street
Jazz Rooted on Swing Street at Bill’s Place In Harlem, sandwiched between the noisy clatter of the number 2 and 3 and C trains, is... Read More
Music
The Dance Theatre of Harlem Brought-it-on at City Center!
New York City Neighborhood Pride and Joy As any New Yorker will tell you, the neighborhoods of our city have their own rich history. Each... Read More
Stepping into the Future with Trumpeter Theo Crocker
For the first time since the pandemic, on Saturday, March 26th at the Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, I stepped from confinement to... Read More
Music History Month: Congrats to African-American Musicians
As I too often witness overwhelming dismissal of the monetary contributions African-Americans make to the United States Gross National Product, my reflections focus on the... Read More
AfroFuturism: Chimurenga Renaissance and Fatoumata Diawara
Review AfroFuturism Concert at Carnegie Hall‘s Zankel Hall There is renewed excitement returning to live events. Each opportunity offering us a chance to rekindle our... Read More
Afrofuturism Music Festival: Nicole Mitchell and Angel Bat Dawid
African-American and AfroFuturistic dynamic duos fused in one concert As part of the this year’s Carnegie Hall Afrofuturism Music Festival, this show presented bandleaders Nicole Mitchell with her... Read More
Sun Ra and his Arkestra then (1992) and now (2022)
When the 2022 Afrofuturism series was announced by Carnegie Hall, I scrolled eagerly through the rather eclectic line-up of the festival. I was hoping it... Read More
Hartmut Geerken’s Sun Ra Archive Finds A Home in Germany
On Halloween 2020, amidst the height and dread of the COVID-19 pandemic, I received a telephone call from Munich, Germany. The caller was Hartmut Geerken.... Read More