My friend Eve Polich has just started a blog about the New York City traditional jazz scene with weekly event listings, venue reviews and more.
It’ll be very interesting to follow if you live in the NYC area or are visiting the city and want to see some of the best bands and hole-in-the-wall venues that no one really knows about.
Check it out at http://avalonjazz.blogspot.com/
To follow-up from the Street Jazz article, here is a video taken by Dianne Eramo of the Baby Soda / Tin Pan combination from February 27th, 2008 in Union Square Subway.
The band assembled: Patrick Harrison – Accordion, Jared Engle – Banjo, Debbie Kennedy – Bass, Luke Winslow King – Resonator, David Langlois – Dishes, Jesse Selengut – Trumpet.
Dancers on periphery: Eve Polich, Joy Arico and Me.
So, after a hiatus in the woods of Maine I have officially moved to New York City and will begin posting more consistently with news, interviews, reviews and more.
In the meantime check out one of these items:
I arrived in New York City on Thursday last week and had a wonderful opportunity to go out dancing, see some of the history and hear amazing musicians.
My stay kicked off with Frim Fram, one of the more commonly attended weekly dances in NYC. Ryan Swift and Heather Flock DJ’d a request evening which had been set up through this Yehoodi thread; he is also featured on this weeks Yehoodi Talk Show. Despite some odd requests both sets were excellently sewn together without feeling jerked around by a random music selection; it really goes to show how skilled Ryan is as a DJ. He is featured in . Other cats were in town including Laura Keat, Jerone Gagliano, David Rehm; added on top of the strong local community who mostly all happened to be out that night it made for a great dance. (more…)
