HELLO, JAZZ  FRIENDS

It is indeed "AUTUMN IN NEW YORK", a wonderful Vernon Duke song and so true about the season here. There is excitement in the air that can be felt and there is great jazz everywhere to be heard.

Starting out for a great jazz week in NYC, one has to go to Dizzy's Coca Cola at Jazz At Lincoln Center , Located in the Time Warner Building at Columbus Circle and 60th street, to get there, one enters the building walks to the boc office and there are the schedules for all of the jazz rooms...Dizzy;s, Rose Hall and the Allen Room. Going up to the 5th floor, one enters the world of jazz...photos, archived videos of great jazz history, and three state of the art venues to hear it in.  What can be better?

Love of jazz is now a global things and I had the pleasure of attending two performances at Dizzy's and meeting Chris Walker, a radio broadcaster from England and on another occasiion Jan Ditlev Hanson, a broadcaster from Finland.  Jazz radio can be found everywhere on the internet and one needs only to turn on the computer and listen. Chris broadcasts on both www.purejazzradio.com and UKJazzRadio in England. Jan is on www.NRK.no/jszz

My own show "Lenore Raphael's JazzSpot" is on 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  On "Lenore Raphael's Jazz Spot". I interview artists and we perform for your listening pleasure. You can hear my show starting on Sundays  8 AM and 8PM Eastern Time and again on Fridays at 11PM Eastern and Saturdays at 3PM 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

If you want to hear any of the previous shows, they are now archived at www.lenoreraphael.com/thejazzspot.html www.Kitano.com e mail jazz@kitano.com  Tel. 212-885-7119.

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.

 Other great New York jazz venues are

The Blue Note, Iridium,Birdland,  Smalls. Smoke, 55 Bar 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 109 West 57th Street for a piano treat. You will see many historic Steinways and a venerable institiution of pianos..I will be in concert there on Monday, December 6th, 2010, on two Steinway grands with the great pianist Mike Longo. Two great jazz pianists and Steinway Artists on two wonderful Steinway pianos. Hope you stop by.

 If you want to hear Mike Longo's Big Band, and they are great, check out Tuesday nights at the B'Hai Center 53 East 11th Street, New York City. The band plays there most Tuesday nights.

Photo below is a view of Colomlbus Circle seen from the Time Warner Center...

ENJOY NEW YORK if you visit or live here. AUTUMN IN NEW YORK...why does it seem so inviting?????

See you next time.

Lenore Raphael 

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.

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