HUGHIE
alley theatre workshop
Michael Kash’s entrance onto Hughie’s stage is imprinted like a sizzling poker. The creaking, twisted-bone staggering, as fragile as a broken dish. Dean Ifill’s pained tiptoeing feet equaled the thrill. A poetic production. Verbiage thrumming …
house: Allsax4tet at Dominion House
Robust. Precise. Nuanced. The illusion of a full orchestra … created by four musicians and 21 sax’s.
Yes. Four lads. Twenty-one saxophones.
Doug Pipher, arranger, leader, masters eight of them. His glee in playing …
SLY BLUE
Sly Blue! Sly Blue!!!!! I LOVE YOU! Oh. OHOHOH. Yesssssssssssss. The New York swing band swung into TO’s Dovercourt House recently and I WAS THERE!
All I could say to them was “This is a Good Day To …