Tag: Ken Peplowski

Pompie’s Place Returns!

Pompie’s Place Returns!

A time machine beautifully created.

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The Real Sinatra

| November 17, 2015 | 0 Comments
The Real Sinatra

Will Friedwald’s The Real Sinatra took a unique look at the Sinatra songbook by focusing on songs specifically written for Ol’ Blue Eyes.

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Jazz in July: Benny, Basie and Bucky

| July 31, 2015 | 0 Comments
Jazz in July: Benny, Basie and Bucky

Charlap’s own quote about Benny and Basie applies to his own men: they swung with grace and intensity.

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Pompie’s Place: Hilary Gardner, Lezlie Harrison, Brianna Thomas

| April 24, 2015 | 0 Comments
Pompie’s Place: Hilary Gardner,  Lezlie Harrison, Brianna Thomas

Pompie sings the blues at Pompie’s Place, evoking an intimate club space, sometime in the 1920s and ’30s, where a hot quintet and a couple of songbirds take the stage and sing the blues.

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