NYC Winter Jazzfest was founded ten years ago and it was initially conceived as a space for musicians to showcase their current projects. This year the festival stretched for five days and it presented over 90 musicians in a dozen venues and concert…
Puffs of snow fell and lay sparkling like diamonds on Waterloo Rd. in Cleveland, Ohio this past New Year’s Eve and the scenesteres and scenestressess stood huddled together in front of The Beachland Ballroom and Tavern having braved the blistering…
As a South Carolina native, it is always a special pleasure to hear about artists who have walked the same sidewalks as myself, and whose voices have bounced around the same walls of the same cafes and pubs. When a…
This week I went to to see Jure Pukl Group play at Smalls, my favorite jazz club in New York. Jure has recorded and performed with renowned jazz musicians and his latest album “Abstract Society,” featuring Vijay Iyer on piano, Joe Sanders…
Best things in life hardly ever start before midnight. Nickel and Dime OPS album release party kicked off right around that time at The Cutting Room – a nice venue with a theatrical, subdued atmosphere. This dynamic group of insanely…
“The man I love” is a jazz standart set up on the music of George Gershwin and lyrics written by his brother Ira. Funny, the song was firstly created as “The Girl I love” for Gershwin’s government satire “Lady, Be…
Yes, yes… you know… nothing fits the night as right as the blues, but who would know that a cold place like Canada could deliver warm, Southern blues rock like the one I found tonight. Grant Lyle is guitarist/singer/songwriter heading…
Tom Dyer is an experimental/blues artist with a distinctive style and experience – his new record “I ain’t blue anymore” is the fifth since 2009 and the eight overall in his career. In the album you’ll find interesting guitar solos (“The…
Dirty old blues, sang by the one and only Dinnah Washington. It don’t get much better than this, actually. And it’s not too bad to be back in America (where else than in Brooklyn a female principal of an orthodox Jewish school…
