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SF Spotlight: Not Just Your Ordinary Office Building Security Guard
Aragon performs on an atypical stage, behind the lobby security desk. On the corner of Howard and Beale sits a 23-story black, glass and steel building. Its modern architecture looms over the...
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Louis Armstrong and Louis Prima – Untapped New Orleans Spotify Playlist
Untapped is proud to introduce our new Untapped New Orleans Spotify Playlist. The goal is to create a representative playlist of local artists. We’ll introduce artists on the list and some of the...
View ArticleTime travel to 18th-century Paris in a hidden artisan enclave
One of my favorite neighborhoods to wander in Paris is the 11th arrondisement. Behind closed doors often lies a whole new world, and if you’re lucky you can even time travel back to the Paris of Madame...
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Swingin’ in the Bookshop: Live Jazz at Bird and Beckett in Glen Park
Enter Bird and Beckett on a Friday night and you’ll find a scene you won’t see anywhere else in San Francisco. Old friends greet each other and pour cups of wine as they maneuver through bookshelves....
View ArticleThe Louis Armstrong House Museum is in it to win it!
When I first met the duo behind New York City Museum-a-Thon, they told me the best museum they had been to in their quest to visit and review all of New York City’s 180 museums was the Louis Armstrong...
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Music Review: SF Offside Festival
The inaugural SF Offside Festival was a brilliant cross section of the Bay Area’s thriving jazz scene. Envisioned by co-founders Alex Pinto and Laura Maguire as the missing outlet for local jazz...
View ArticleRob Reich Trio featuring Kally Price at the Red Poppy Arthouse
The Red Poppy Arthouse was a fitting venue for the Rob Reich Trio, featuring Kally Price last Saturday April 16. The quirky arrangement of the room–an intimate hodgepodge of unmatched chairs and...
View ArticleCherry Blossom Nostalgia, the Chelsea Music Festival Jazz Finale
In New York City, we have begun the sultry melt into summer, sliding onto shaded park benches and lingering in the awnings of ritzy hotels, being highly preoccupied with pressing business calls, and by...
View ArticleSwinging Paris: Jazz Manouche on Monday Nights
Tucked away behind the Pantheon in the 5ème Arrondissement of Paris, there is a bar. This bar is small and unpretentious, wallpapered inside with yellowed posters in an anarchy of papier mâché. There...
View ArticleYour Week Untapped: Best Events for December 24-30
Our curated list of events for this week: Underground Eats Christmas Eve dinner, MAS tour of Rockefeller Center, the holiday train show & more. MONDAY, DECEMBER 24: Underground Eats Christmas Eve...
View ArticleMinton’s Playhouse in Harlem to Be Resurrected
Henry Minton was a tenor saxophonist who opened Minton’s Playhouse in 1938. The house band had names like Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Count Basie and Benny Goodman. It was...
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Celebrate Local Talent at San Francisco’s Offside Music Festival
You do not have to be a jazz aficionado to appreciate the workings of San Francisco Offside Festival’s co-founders – musician Alex Pinto and local music presenter Laura Maguire. Rather, at its core,...
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Gatsby on Governor’s Island: Annual Jazz Age Lawn Party June 15-16
Source: Dreamland Orchestra The Roaring Twenties shift from Long Island to Governor’s Island this weekend with the annual Jazz Age Lawn Party. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on June 15 – 16 and again on...
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The Dunbar Hotel, A Legendary Jazz Spot in LA is Transformed into a Senior...
A 1938 postcard from the Dunbar Hotel. Source: Hidden Los Angeles. An unlikely group – Los Angeles’ senior citizens – are indirectly saving a building that was once the heart of the black community and...
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Suave Side-Parts and Prosecco Soup: Jazz Finale of the 2013 Chelsea Music...
The jazz finale of the fourth annual Chelsea Music Festival lit up the first official night of summer, in more ways than one. The “Festival Finale: Music of the Metropolises—from London to Venice via...
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Take in Jazz in an Underground Crypt in Harlem
Though New York City is far younger than many European cities, we still have our fair share of crypts and catacombs scattered throughout the city. And some of them host unique events, for those who...
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Vintage Photos: Inside the Cotton Club, One of NYC’s Leading Jazz Venues of...
The Cotton Club might be Harlem’s most famous surviving jazz venue, but during the Harlem Renaissance that started after World War I and ended sometime during the Great Depression, it was also the...
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Fun Maps: The Queens Jazz Trail by Ephemera Press
When people talk about jazz history in New York City, they usually talk about Harlem and Greenwich Village. Indeed, Harlem was full of jazz clubs in the 1920s, like the Apollo and the Cotton Club. But...
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Inside the Gutted Lenox Lounge in Harlem as It Transforms Into The Lounge
The current gutted space at 288 Lenox Avenue It was with great sadness that Harlem watched as its famed Lenox Lounge got shuttered on December 31, 2012. The property located at 288 Lenox Avenue has...
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Your Week Untapped: Top NYC Events June 30th-July 6th
Here is your weekly events guide for the week. Monday, June 30 Just because NYC Pride is coming to an end, doesn’t mean that the party has to! Come out to the NYC Pride Ultimate Mega Grand Finale...
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