A FEW MINUTES WITH… Jeff “Siege” Siegel – and a quick look at Hetko, Syracuse…
When I’m wrong, I’m usually VERY wrong, and I was truly, madly, deeply wrong some years back when I reviewed Little Friend, a disc by one of the Greater…
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Lee Shaw
LIVE: The Ben Allison Band / the Lee Shaw Trio @ the College of St. Rose’s Massry Center,…
Review by J Hunter
Photographs by Albert BrooksThe Ben Allison Band...
The Lee Shaw Trio…One of these things is not like the other.If Massry…
LIVE: First Night Saratoga, 12/31/11
Photographs by Andrzej Pilarczyk, Nippertown chief photographerWelcome to 2012!New Year's Eve in Saratoga Springs has become quite the Nippertown…
This Week’s Hit Parade: The Live Album Edition
JOE BARNA & SKETCHES OF INFLUENCE
"Blowin’ it Out"
(Self-released, 2011)
If the late Bread & Jam Café is remembered for only one thing, this…
LIVE: Tribute to Nick Brignola @ the Van Dyck, 1/29/11
It wasn't just jazz fans who crowded into the Van Dyck in Schenectady on Saturday night, making for a standing-room-only evening. Memories and love filled…
Lee Shaw: Pianist Podcast
Nippertown's own jazz piano queen Lee Shaw is living a fascinating life. From her childhood in Oklahoma in the 1920s to her early exposure to jazz in Chicago to…
LIVE: “Tribute to Nick Brignola” @ the Van Dyck, 10/30/09
The conversational buzz of the audience in the venerable Schenectady jazz club came to a sudden stop as the Van Dyck All-Stars took the stage last Friday…
LIVE: Albany’s All-America City Jazz Festival, 9/12/09
This year's Albany's All-America City Jazz Festival kicked off in high gear with Nippertown's own queen of the keys Lee Shaw taking the bandstand. Her…