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davidisen · 4 months

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Music Safari NYC, continued . . .

[Covers the week of January 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 & 7.]

On January 1, Neal and I got the best seats in the house for The Anderson Brothers' presentation of a few of Irving Berlin's greatest hits.

That's Molly Ryan, Will Anderson and Peter Anderson. (Or maybe it's Molly, Peter and Will.) It wasn't too late to sing "White Christmas."

On Tuesday (Jan 2), it was Mona's.

The house band was Jared Engel, Jon Thomas, Josh Dunn (back of head), Aurora, and Tomas Majcherski (not shown above, see below).

A bunch of great musicians showed up for the second set.

That's Jared Engel in the foreground, with Matt Munisteri, Aidan Grant (bartender extraordinaire), David Ostwald (if you squint), unknown and unknown looking on.

Rafael Halvorson-Castillo and Neal Siegal were in for the night.

Jan 3 was a night off . . .

On Thursday, January 4, Paula and I had great seats at Dizzy's for the Mathis Picard Sound Orchestra.

It was big, big sound - definitely one of the major highlights of this music safari.

Mathis was joyful. He's been working hard on this, and it showed.

At his last Dizzy's gig, Mathis got married in the middle of the set, right on stage!

After Mathis, I booked it down to the Village Vanguard to hear the Chris Potter trio.

He's a great player, but I must confess that the jazz he played was too abstract for my taste.

On Friday, January 5, Neal and I headed over to Barbés to catch VickiKristinaBarcelona.

VKB is a project by Mamie Minch, Rachelle Garniez and Amanda Homi that reimagines the songs of Tom Waits. I don't know as much as I should about Tom Waits, given how important he seems to be to musicians I admire, but I'm guessing the emphasis is on, "reimagine."

In a set full of surprises, the most surprising performance of the evening involved Rachelle ringing tuned ceramic hand bells - precisely and skillfully - to play a melody.

On Saturday, January 6, it was raining and the 1-2-3 subway was not running due to a derailment, so I opted to stay closer to home.

Neal and I caught yet another set of "Miss Maybell and the Jazz Age Artistes," at the Motto Hotel (by Hilton) on 24th street. That's Charlie Judkins on the keys, Brian Nalepka on bass and Miss Maybell strummin on the old banjo.

Margaret Batiuchok was dancing up a storm to Miss Maybell. She got this young dancer going . . . very charming!

On Sunday, January 7, the usual crowd was at The Ear - and the more regular players in the Ear-Regulars. Maestro Kellso on trumpet, the beard of reeds-player Scott Robinson, Matt Munisteri on guitar extrordinaire, and Pat O'Leary on bass (see below).

#traditional jazz #Irving Berlin #birdland #NYC jazz #Monas #jam session #barbesbrooklyn #village vanguard #Ear-regulars #Miss Maybell

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sureshsingaratnam · 9 months

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#bari sax #baritone saxophone #saxophone #sax #jazz #Lauren Sevian #nyc #NYC jazz #barbie meme #barbie movie #barbenheimer #barbie

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ddlc3177 · 11 days

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#jazz music #jazz fusion #jazz #Ken Peplowski #music #smooth jazz #nyc life #nyc jazz

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newyorkthegoldenage · 8 months

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C.V. Farrow drew this beautiful map of what he called "The Wondrous Isle of Manhattan" in 1926. You MUST enlarge it. It wasn't intended to be used for navigation, but rather as a pictorial representation of the island's highlights. Below are a few details that show you what the full-size map is really like. You should enlarge them, too!

Source: Gothamist

#vintage New York #1920s #C.V. Farrow #map #vintage Manhattan #Jazz Age #Roaring 20s #1920s NYC #illustration #pictorial map #colored map #vintage NYC

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la-cocotte-de-paris · 4 months

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Kae Carroll in the Ziegfeld Follies, c. 1925-1927

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tygerland · 11 days

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John Coltrane 1963, by Jim Marshall.

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refiectionsafterjane · 4 months

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mentally i’m in the 60s listening to frank sinatra at a jazz bar

#girlblogging #this is a girlblog #girl interupted syndrome #2014 tumblr #new york city #girlhood #lana del rey #nyc #this is what makes us girls #girl interrupted #girl interrupted syndrome #tumblr girls #frank sinatra #60s #50s #female rage #female hysteria #jazz #old hollywood

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cyclesofmystery · 1 month

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I’ve been very into Abner Dean's work these last couple days. Here's one of his New Yorker Covers from 1934.

I’ve also been thinking about pairing music with my posts. Here’s the Ray Noble Orchestra getting particularly jazzy in 1933 with a vocal refrain by Al Bowlly (everybody loves Al Bowlly), some hot trumpet by Nat Gonella, some great baritone saxophone by Ernest Ritte, and reedman Freddy Gardner.

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jimmorrisonfants · 10 months

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(1993) Digable Planets - Where I’m From

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chromet · 6 months

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Hidden NY FW23

#hidden ny #menswear #fashion #street style #jazz #nyc #ny #manhattan

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swizziee · 7 months

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Digable Planets. (1993)

#digable planets #hip hop #rap #portrait #photography #nyc #photoshoot #vintage #music #90s #my upload #black & white #jazz

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newyorkthegoldenage · 2 months

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Thelonious Monk playing ping-pong, 1959.

"I used to play him in ping-pong. He was like a cat around the table. I never won a game, but it was a joy to play him." —Herb Snitzer

Photo: Herb Snitzer via Table Tennis Daily

#vintage New York #1950s #Herb Snitzer #Thelonious Monk #ping-pong #jazz greats #jazz musicians #vintage NYC

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jewishpopculture · 11 months

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One of the earliest pioneers of jazz music was Willie “The Lion” Smith, a Jewish Black man from New York.

The legendary Duke Ellington called Smith “the greatest influence of all the great jazz piano players who have come along. He has a beat that stays in the mind.” Ellington wrote two songs to tribute Smith: “The Portrait Of The Lion” and “The Second Portrait Of The Lion”.

Smith is also considered one of the inventors of the stride jazz piano genre.

Here is Smith photographed by William P. Gottlieb, in Smith’s apartment in Manhattan, NY., ca. Jan. 1947. The photo was used for the book “The Golden Age of Jazz”, and has been archived by the Library of Congress.

Recommended songs: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0UXZDUIJwEX3Iibr4OzKKj?si=mixFBwL4T_SAu4cZ4qWAYw

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tygerland · 1 month

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Al Hirschfeld Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli in New York, New York. June 19, 1977.

#martin scorsese #robert de niro #liza minnelli #al hirschfeld #70s #1970s #movies #jazz #culture #retro #music #film #illustration #art #cinema #new york new york #nyc #art history #new york #🎶

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edhoppers · 7 months

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DON SCHLITTEN (B. 1932) Monk and Coltrane, September 8, 1957

#photography #b/w #black and white #thelonious monk #john coltrane #jazz #don schlitten #christie #nyc

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11oh1 · 3 months

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