Jazz

Katherine Jenkins at the Café Carlyle

Photo: David Andrako When you visit the Café Carlyle, just off the lobby of the historic Carlyle Hotel on Madison and 76th Street, you know you aren't just seeing any old cabaret show. The minute you're

Charlie Parker’s Yardbird at the Apollo Theater

by Steven Pisano(All photos by Steven Pisano.) Saxophonist Charlie Parker was one of the seminal jazz musicians of the twentieth century, whose fast and furious improvisational style was the source

Preview: Big Ears Festival 2016

I'm excited to be returning to Knoxville, TN this weekend for the Big Ears Festival, which I attended for the first time last year and was pretty much blown away by

Winter Jazzfest 2016 Marathon – Saturday

by Dan Lehner (pictured: Ibrahim Maalouf at The New School) Vocalist Theo Bleckmann and guitarist Ben Monder have always had a contrasting yet complimentary relationship with one another, and that

Winter Jazzfest 2016 Marathon – Friday

by Dan Lehner Parodoxically, the more Winter Jazzfest grows, the more fragmented it becomes. To accommodate the (admittedly fortuitous) problem of growing crowds, WJF had expanded even further from its

Preview: Winter Jazzfest 2016

For the 12th year in a row, Winter Jazzfest takes over the Village this week, with more than 100 bands playing a dozen venues across lower Manhattan. This year's festival –

Lettuce Brings the Funk to Brooklyn Bowl

by Steven Pisano(All photos by Steven Pisano.) Funk here, funk there, funk everywhere. That’s how I spent the first weekend of 2016 when the band Lettuce brought its pyrotechnic funk to

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