ALEX SKOLNICK, THRASH METAL GUITAR LEGEND FROM TESTAMENT, shows his other side by performing with his jazz trio at the inaugural Brooklyn Guitar Festival at Arlo Williamsburg. Photo by Kaju Roberto. Few guitarists have traveled as boldly between musical worlds as Alex Skolnick, the Testament veteran who transformed himself from a teenage thrash-metal prodigy into an accomplished ..Read More
May 6, 2024
Tali wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg! Back in August 2023, I wrote an article about Tali Golergant, this wonderful young female singer/songwriter from Luxembourg living in NYC who really impressed me. My fascination would compel me to cover Tali’s now memorable performance with her eponymous band at Bowery Electric in the East Village last
April 9, 2024
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“Peoples’ Movements” is a special art exhibition running through April 15th at the Tenri Cultural Institute located at 43A West 13th Street in the heart of Greenwich Village. Luchia Meihua Lee is the founding Executive Director of the Taiwanese American Arts Council (TAAC) and the Chief Curator of the exhibition. Since 2014, TAAC has aimed
April 9, 2024
What occurs when an immovable object meets an irresistible force? Or when the kinetic alchemy of some random meeting between a 3x Grammy Award-nominated jazz pianist and a 6x Downbeat Magazine Award-winning tenor saxophonist happens on stage? That’s what I dreamt would happen when The Axel Tosca Trio, led by its brilliant pianist Axel Tosca
March 6, 2024
Corinne Bailey Rae is an amazing storyteller. She used this talent with high efficacy by introducing practically every song during her February 15th early show performance at the world-renowned Blue Note Jazz Club in NYC. There were moments where her stories equally elicited a deep contemplation or had the audience frolicking with laughter. However, such
March 6, 2024
There are two shows in one Village jazz club called Zinc Bar every Thursday night, and they are always magical. The one I recently attended was on February 8th. Every Thursday night for over a decade, the “Voice of Cuba” Xiomarra Laugart Sanchez has been performing for NYC Cuban jazz lovers at Zinc Bar on
February 20, 2024
On December 29, near the end of his stunning late-night set at the world-renowned Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village, Grammy Award winning trumpeter and band leader Chris Botti told a funny story about the time he performed with Sting in Tokyo 20 years ago. With 20,000+ eyes fixated on him, he was making his
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