by Jeff Maisey | Apr 9, 2025 | Music, Music News
By Jerome Langston It was on a very recent Friday morning, when the great Wynton Marsalis told me, during a Zoom call, that I have “a young sound. If you’re older, congratulations. You found the fountain of vocal youth.” I mean… that compliment will...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 13, 2024 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jerome Langston “John Toomey and I met Nate Najar through a mutual friend, Chuck Redd, who’s been down here and played with us,” says Jimmy Masters, a highly regarded jazz bassist, during a recent phone chat about the long running jazz series that he curates...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 23, 2023 | News, News & Views, Robotham
Words & Photo by Tom Robotham One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. – Georgia O’Keeffe Last month in this space, I wrote about what I call the resonance of place: the vibrations in your very soul that you feel at the mere...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 21, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey Sultry jazz vocalist Liz Terrell will unveil her debut full-length solo album “It’s All Right with Me” on January 20 & 21 with a live performance of the work at American Theatre intimate Studio Theater in Hampton. Terrell’s dynamic voice is...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 21, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Byron Stripling is conductor and trumpet soloist.) By Jerome Langston “A lot of this is informed by Count Basie,” says Byron Stripling, the acclaimed jazz trumpeter, actor and conductor. “The show is informed by the music of Ella Fitzgerald and so many others, so it...
