On Monday Jun 25 (and every Monday except first Mon of the month) The Back Room presents The Golden Age Quintet... Be transported back in the time of bathtub gin, sultry ladies, red hot jazz and gypsy swing... Fronted by Svetlana Shmulyian, "jazz experimentalist" (Broadway World) with "great vocals" (Socially Superlative), this week the band's guests include Adrian...
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On Monday Jun 25 (and every Monday except first Mon of the month) The Back Room presents The Golden Age Quintet... Be transported back in the time of bathtub gin, sultry ladies, red hot jazz and gypsy swing... Fronted by Svetlana Shmulyian, "jazz experimentalist" (Broadway World) with "great vocals" (Socially Superlative), this week the band's guests include Adrian Cunningham, the phenomenal clarinet and saxophone player, "a young jazz artist who plays as if he has been playing for over a century" (All About Jazz), and Ilya Lushtak, "the fine guitar soloist" (CD Universe) and vocalist who "[keeps] a steady swing rhythm" (NY TImes) - and "is all rhythm" (NY Sun). So come down and celebrate the prohibition era with cocktails, music and dance!!! Watch this event for password... NO COVER - TIPS APPRECIATED. Musicians welcome to sit in!
“With drinks in teacups and a hidden entrance, this hideaway boasts all the glamour of a 20s-era speakeasy” (New York Magazine, Critics’ Pick). Authentic yet informal atmosphere – with dance friendly hardwood floors and foot stomping hot jazz and gypsy swing by the Golden Age Quintet.