Vanilla Mood is a cool little jazz bar/club just across from Roppongi Hills. It has been open for...
by Mary Louise Kelly and Karen Zamora Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a 10-year-old in New York, just became the country’s newest national chess master. At the Fairfield County Chess Club Championship tournament in Connecticut on May 1, Adewumi won all four of his matches, bumping his chess rating up...
Spike Willner of Smalls Jazz Club is asking the jazz community to help Victor with funds that will be used to pay his rent, medical costs, food and living costs and anything else that he may need. Recovery may take as long as one year....
After a hundred and seven days in isolation, five days of equivocation and an anxious twenty minutes hunting for a parking space, there I was in the front row of the CJC Jazz Club; poised expectantly as the pianist’s fingers were about to descend. It was not as if I had been deprived...
Vanilla Mood is a cool little jazz bar/club just across from Roppongi Hills. It has been open for sixteen years, run for the last five by Amagai Ken-san. Amagai-san hosts events there almost every evening, ranging from DJ nights to improv sessions to straight-ahead swing...
Transfers from the original 78rpm singles are magnificent and the selection of titles is absolutely on the money, from earliest Hot Club sides to his post-war experiments with shifting personnel and electrified guitars. (KS) 86 Steps Ahead: Steps Ahead (Elektra/Musician) Michael Brecker (ts), ...
Gentrification of the downtown core of the city had driven rents to such a level that sustaining a club that could also serve as a community hub had become difficult at best. Food and liquor sales became the life blood of these attempts, driving up the price of access to jazz fans, ...
and thick ceiling timbers, it felt like walking into a colonial cellar. The tiny stage barely had enough room for the grand piano, let alone the emerging quintet. A waitress told me the venue was originally a colonial carriage house that was converted into a jazz club nearly 50 years ago....
Just had to post this for all my readers and friends but especially those living near or able to get to Rome. Curran’s wife, Dr. Susan Levenstein, graciously sent this announcement to me. She is an American physician (and webmaster).Her very entertaining memoir,“Dottoresa”is her account...
Here's Special Club in 1958...Here's Herald Tribune from the 1960 film Breathless (A Bout de Souffle)...Here's Verneuillade from the same film...Here's Basie-Likes in 1962...Here's The Continental in 1976,,,Here's The End of a Love Affair in 1983......