R.I.P. Clive
“The job’s impossible, and one must pray that one will be only moderately incompetent.” Clive Barnes (1927-2008)
Monday Nightcap
After catching the Rangers at MSG on Monday, my friend Molly and I headed to the LES for a musical nightcap. After hearing a pleasant – if prosaic – singer-songwriter
The First MTV
Take your pick: Lenny as New Yorker. Lenny as Social Activist. Lenny as TV Star. Carnegie's Bernstein Discovery Day had all three on Saturday. And, they could have easily squeezed in half-a-dozen more
Make It A Superfecta
On my way back to Brooklyn, I ran into this dude at Union Square Station, who somehow managed to haul an upright piano all the way down to the platform.
Saturday Trifecta (pt. 2)
Tonight, I paid my first visit this season to the People's Symphony Concerts, where the Washington Irving High School Auditorium was packed for a concert by the Juilliard String
Saturday Trifecta (pt. 1)
What better way is there to spend a rainy autumn Saturday in New York than listening to music? The live kind, that is… After spending the early afternoon at Carnegie
Cocktail Conversation: David T. Little
David T. Little, who I've written about previously, is a composer, drummer, and bandleader who counts as influences everyone from George Orwell to Megadeth. In between finishing up his doctorate at Princeton, he can
String Singers
Playing a stringed instrument while singing is a bit like trying to pat your head and rub your belly at the same time. Only harder. But, twice this week, I
Sunday Night Jazz
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Bowery Poetry Club, 11/9/08. (More pics below. Review and setlist here.)