You can tell there have been some big changes over in Central Park because the natural order of things has changed. In the mornings, the scene is generally calm; the dogs are politely engaging, certain mammals dressed in bright spandex and other colored displays trot Read More …
Author: Jesse Selengut
Pete’s Candy Store – Week #2
Week number two at Pete’s Candy Store in our nine week bid to record a live record. We all felt more relaxed and a little more comfortable with the sound. There were more people this time as well. Just about full. Hopefully it will continue Read More …
Pete’s Candy Store – Week One
We had our first of nine performances at Pete’s Candy Store. We’ve decided to record the whole series in attempt to cull the best material and create a new live album out of the process. Listening back to the recording I pretended I was listening Read More …
Christmas in July
July 5th in New York is a little like Christmas day except instead of everyone being at home with their families, they are in bed nursing their hangovers. Christmas cold keeps everyone home to snuggle and yesterdays glaring, beating sunshine kept headaches and fear of Read More …
New Tin Pan Photos
In May, we did a photo shoot with the very stylish Bill Phelps at the restaurant he helped design, Café Moto. I’ve always liked Bill’s Photos. They are very evocative and dreamy, and kind of moody. They seem to reflect and embrace deterioration and entropy Read More …
What’s with all this rain?
If you live in New York you’ll know that we’ve had an astonishing number of days in a row with precipitation. It’s getting like Seattle East over here. For the street musician these are hard times. On Monday we went out to the park even Read More …
Joe’s Pub – We’ve Finally Gotten Started
I spoke with Clifton yesterday about the Joe’s Pub show that we did on Sunday night and his quote was, “We’ve finally gotten started.” It may take some time before we’re playing a majority of rooms that are as wonderful and as perfect for us Read More …
Guggengeim Celebrates
On Tuesday of this week we performed at the Guggenheim for the second time. It was a wonderful experience. They were celebrating their 50th anniversary and were hosting the 5th Avenue Museum Mile Festival. They had us set up just outside the museum underneath that Read More …
Louis Armstrong House Museum
We found out today that we have been invited to play at the Louis Armstrong House Museum out in Corona Queens. The performance isn’t until August 22nd but I though I’d post about it this evening as it did make me quite excited. I remember Read More …
New York Times Article
Although they did describe us a “A little dorky,” I still think that somehow gives more cred. If we came off all slick it wouldn’t be quite what we’re projecting either: the earnest, simplicity of feel-good music and the natural blues. The singer lowers his Read More …