The NY Hot Jazz Camp All Star Concert – WOWZA Founded by Molly Ryan and Bria Skonberg in 2015, The NY Hot Jazz Camp, held not in tents or bunks, but at Greenwich House Music School, [...]May 25, 2017
Karen Mason: It’s About Time – Marvelous Birdland is peppered with show biz illuminati tonight, performers and songwriters alike. There’s a buzz in the air. The occasion is a [...]March 8, 2017
Downton Abbey Road: The Best of Britain- Charming “The British invasion” Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano point out, did not, in fact, begin with the Beatles. Long before arrival of The [...]December 22, 2016
Louis Rosen: A Serious Musician in A Porkpie Hat Louis Rosen, composer/songwriter/librettist/musician/author/educator is a Jewish white man for whom black experience profoundly resonates. [...]October 4, 2016
Preview: The 27th Annual New York Cabaret Convention In October 1989, Donald Smith’s four year-old Mabel Mercer Foundation held its first annual New York Cabaret Convention. The New York [...]August 11, 2016
Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano: Sun! Skin! Sin! Sinatra! Sunday afternoon I took a mini-vacation with Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano- well, me and the rest of the audience at Birdland. Like [...]July 20, 2016