Jazz is coming to Flushing Town Hall. The town hall and the Queens Jazz OverGround (QJOG), which promotes jazz education and musical enrichment, are hosting the first annual Spring Jazz Festival on Saturday, April 27. Three founding members of QJOG, a nonprofit collective, along with Ellen Kodadek, Flushing Town Hall executive and artistic director, trumpeted [...]
Josh Deutsch loves jazz. He can speak to it in excess, understands it and appreciates all the jazz greats. Originally a pianist before switching to trumpet, jazz is Deutsch’s life — in every component. Teaching, when coinciding with performing, is one of Deutsch’s favorite parts of music as he helps his students explore the technical [...]
At age 12, Amanda Monaco picked up a guitar. One hasn’t left her hands since. The Long Island City jazz guitarist, whose strumming floats through neighborhood wine bars and music venues, now leads the Queens Jazz Overground. A spinoff of the nonprofit Brooklyn Jazz Underground, it is a local resource for jazz musicians and fans. [...]
War in Iraq officially over After nearly nine years, 4,500 American dead, 32,000 wounded and more than $800 billion, U.S. officials formally shut down the war in Iraq — a conflict that U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said was worth the price in blood and money, as it set Iraq on a path to democracy. Panetta stepped [...]
