BJU Launch Festival at Small's, 1/13/07
The Brooklyn Jazz Underground, a newly formed collective, is an association of independent bandleaders with a shared commitment to improvised music. Through cooperative effort, members of the BJU strive to create greater awareness of their work.
I heard Fat Cat is back, slightly altered...
It has come to our attention that the management of the great jazz club Smalls, located in Greenwich Village, has changed... for good!
This much I've figured out:
Here's an interesting story in the Washington Post about the rapid gentrification that has occurred in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It's the classic story of artists moving into the area, making it hip, and Wall Streeters following closely behind, driving rents up and squeezing out those artists.
I moved to Red Hook this past summer and I love it.
My wife Ave Carrillo, who is a great radio producer, just finished this radio piece on Miles' Kind Of Blue for the show Studio 360. It's worth a listen: