How Insensitive (written by Antônio Carlos Jobim) is performed longingly — but Shirley Horn‘s piano craftsmenship and accompanying grunting gives power to this haunting tune.... Read More
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I remember seeing Dorothy Donegan several times performing a number of times (downtown NYC), in the 1990s — she was an aging super talented jazz... Read More
August 23, 2015, 2:00pm to 4:00pm Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, inside the Park at 110th Street between Lenox and Fifth Avenues As one of the... Read More
In the words of Miles Davis, “You can tell the history of jazz in four words: Louis Armstrong. Charlie Parker.” Almost sixty years after his... Read More
Aretha takes the White House to the “Old Fashioned” Baptist Church! The air conditioning is broken, Aretha falls to her knees and couldn’t get up... Read More
I’m happy to lead you to Joe Sample interviews, (I recommend that watch them all.) Joe, as a personality had ‘It”. His albums are the... Read More
Maybe four years ago I saw Tuck & Patti at the Bayerishe Hof Hotel in Munich. (Outside of the hotel is an impromtu memorial to... Read More
August 13, 2015, 7:30pm David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center Broadway between 62nd and 63rd streets Manhattan Rocky Dawuni’s unique “Afro-Roots” sound has made him... Read More