Metropolitan Room will host the 2015 annual fundraising gala on Sunday, May 17th for Cabaret Cares/Help Is On The Way Today. Actress/singer Anita Gillette will receive The Ruth Kurtzman Lifetime Achievement Award and performers Gary Lizardo and Ricky …Read more
The fourth night of the IN SCENA! Italian Theater Festival NY was presented at the beautiful and intimate Casa Italiana in Greenwich Village. There in the downstairs auditorium, I experienced Cingomma, written and performed by the wildly talented Jes …Read more
Alto saxophonist and composer, Rudresh Mahanthappa can pinpoint his musical transformation to when — with the ears of an elementary schoolboy — he first heard a recording of alto bop great, Charlie “Yardbird” Parker. Quite some decades later, in an …Read more
To experience Eliane Elias in concert is to understand the notion of temporary bliss. With a career spanning forty years, this famed jazz pianist from Sao Paulo is an international treasure. Undoubtedly one of the finest musicians of our day, she is …Read more
To celebrate the release of his new CD, Identities are Changeable, saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenón and his quartet have settled in for a week long run at the Village Vanguard (November 18-23). One cannot imagine a more perfect blend of high ene …Read more
