Music in NY/NJ Area

[Pocketplayer]

In Jersey City for a week...got some time to kill.
Recommendations? Subway tips or guide you could help with?

[Lucas Ives]

Mike Stern's at the 55 Bar tonight w/ Lionel Cordew

Mick Taylor w/ Bernard Purdie all week at The Iridium

Dizzy Gillespie big band w/ Lewis Nash @ Blue Note

Tommy Igoe big band @ Birdland Friday, although he's not always playing with them now that he lives in CA -- call ahead


Hop on a PATH train at Journal Square (I think, double check me) to get into the city, there are maps in all the subway stations once you're there.

[Pocketplayer]

Lucas...right on bro...

Purdie all the way...Journal Square is behind the house here...will hook up into town

THANKS! Feel like hanging, PM me. My treat.

[Lucas Ives]

Not sure I'll be in the city this weekend but will give a shout if so -- enjoy your stay, if you do see Purdie be sure to post a review. :)

[sjj123]

Lucas,,,did Igoe move to CA for music reasons? Who plays when he is not there? That guy is so wicked

[Lucas Ives]

Family reasons IIRC. He's got a west coast residency at the Rrazz Room in SF with some Bay Area heavies.

http://www.therrazzroom.com/12ap/tommy_i.html

Ray Marchica has been filling in @ Birdland when TI can't make the flight, I believe.

[Pocketplayer]

Went to Hoboken last night...what a hole...parking IMPOSSIBLE to find!
I drove for an hour trying to find a place to park...narrow one-way streets...
crazy. Cousin plays lead guitar in a cover rock band...heading upstate NY
to some Roadhouse type place w/my cuz for some hang time...try to figure
out what he is saying w/that strong Brooklyn accent...might take a Yankee game
and do the bleeches or grandstand seats for cheap. Purdie is playing w/Mick
Taylor...might also head over to McSourleys...oldest bar in NY. Get some Irish
culture in!

[langmick]

I and three buddies put on a 300 buck bar tab at McSorleys in an afternoon

Light or dark. Better know man.

Goto Katzs for corned beef right down the street. Good stuff.

[smoggrocks]

tain is playing at jazz gallery tonight. just gtr and drums. mark guiliana's playing there saturday. steve coleman does his regular hang there on monday
http://jazzgallery.org/html/itinerary.php

you should try to hit these b/c jg is losing their space soon.


my teacher gregg bendian just played last night, but i think that was in CT. he does that whole mahavishnu project thing and it is killer.


i live around the block from mcsorley's. personally, i prefer Old Town Bar on 18th st. by Broadway. Mc's can get a wee juvenile.

http://www.oldtownbar.com/


never drive if you can avoid it!

[sjj123]

Igoe is rediculous...what a drummer. The last 2 min are wicked (at least to me)