HELLO, JAZZ  FRIENDS

 RADIO NEWS!!

Are you looking for great straight-ahead jazz programming to listen to?  Go no further than your computer.

www.purejazzradio.org plays REAL jazz, 24 hours, 7 days a week on the internet.  Host Rich Keith has gathered some of the best recordings of great artists of yesterday and some newer ones to provide listening pleasure anytime around the world. You will hear Dinah Washington, Oscar Peterson, Clifford Brown and more and in addition new artists playing in that tradition, making names for themselves now.

I will have a show on www.purejazzradio.org called "Lenore Raphael's Jazz Spot". I will be interviewing artists and we will perform for your listening pleasure. You can hear my show starting on Sunday July 19 at 8 AM and 8PM Eastern Time and again on Fridays at 11PM Eastern Time. We will have a new guest artist every week and you will get an intimate look at his or her career in addition to hearing the music played on the spot.  For more information, e mail me at swinginfox@swinginfox.com

 Visitors to our town MUST SEE Jazz At Lincoln Center at 60th Street and Columbus Circle. (www.jazzatlincolncenter.org)  Check out Dizzy's Coca Cola Jazz club there and wait for the After Hours gigs as well...the groups are great and a $10. (After Hours) bargain.,

Another wonderful "listening" room for jazz is The Kitano Hotel at 66 East 38th Street. It is warm and intimate and always features top jazz players. During the week there is no Music Charge

 www.Kitano.com e mail jazz@kitano.com  Tel. 212-885-7119.

On WEDNESDAYS, MIDTOWN JAZZ AT MIDDAY at ST. PETER'S Church at 54th & Lexington Avenue features world-class singers and instrumentalists. It starts at 1PM but get there   

early for a seat as it fills up fast. RONNY WHYTE, singer/pianist holds forth as the host.

Another long-standing New York jazz concert series is Jack Kleinsinger's "Highlights In Jazz". It takes place at the Tribeca Performing Arts center in lower Manhattan.  

There are three major sources of information for the jazz events in New York City that list who is playing where and are generally comprehensive and up-to-date.

www.ALLABOUTJAZZ.com has a New York City version. www.newyork.allaboutjazz.com ; Hot House magazine at www.hothousjazz.com  and Jazz Improv at www.jazzimprov.com

The LENOX LOUNGE is one of New York City's famed legendary jazz clubs. 

The addess is 288 Lenox (Malcolm X) Bouloevard. Call 212-427-0253 or check the website www.lenoxlounge.com for more information. reservations are suggested.

BARNES & NOBLE on 66th street & Broadway has been having jazz on Monday nights and it is free and open to the public.

Other great New York jazz venues are

The Blue Note, Iridium,Birdland,  Smalls. Smoke, Sweet Rhythm but there are many more smaller venues for intimate listening.

If you want to contact me by e mail for more information please e mail  swinginfox@swinginfox.com

For Piano Buffs and lovers of pianos, visit  Steinway Hall at 108 West 57th Street for a piano treat. You will see many historic Steinways and a venerable institiution of pianos..

e view taken from Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz At Lincoln Center

OTHER JAZZ THINGS TO DO

Want to buy some jazz CD's?  Barnes & Nobel at 66th street & Broadway has a large selection of re-issues and current CD releases. 

 If you are a jazz history buff and want to get a taste of what jazz was like in New York City in the early 20's, '30's and '40s, check out www,bigapplejazz.com  There are bus tours that can be arranged and now there is a store called EZz;s woodshed, where you can hear live jazz by some excellent New York City groups.

Student players and those who want to bring their "axe" and sit in... 

One of the most important things I did as a student player was to have the opportunity to sit in on a jam session. While there are fewer and fewer clubs to do that in, even in a city as big as New York, there still are some important venues where the jam session takes place. If you're visiting the big Apple, MONDAYS seem to be "Jam night." Check out the following:

SMALL'S - a great spot in Greenwich Village for sitting in after hours. 

I hope the above information will be helpful to anyone visiting, or planning to come to New York to play. It's a very competitive jazz scene and some of the best players have come here or live here. On the positive side, it really makes you work harder to get your chops up and offers some fine, free playing/listening experiences.

Lenore Raphael.

e mail me swinginfox@swinginfox.com

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