Some great music in the subways of NYC.

[Hardbopjazz]

I really enjoyed these guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZu097wb8wU&app=desktop

[mjzee]

Not jazz, but when I used to walk through the 42nd St-GCT station, I caught Susan Cagle play a few times on the mezzanine level, and she knocked me out. I bought the CD from her. It was actually recorded on the subway platform.

Much better than those guys who keep playing El Condor Pasa.

Edited March 8, 2014 by mjzee

[JSngry]

I really enjoyed these guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZu097wb8wU&app=desktop

Is that some fairly recent R&B tune? It sounds familiar? I dig the white shoes too, they serve a purpose.

[ejp626]

I caught these guys very briefly on my last trip to NYC. I really should have stayed another 5-10 minutes to pick up their CD, which I presume was the two of them as a kora duo, but I was feeling particularly rushed. Well, I'll see if lighting strikes twice on my next trip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWBrchn09yY

[clifford_thornton]

Caught saxophonists Henry P. Warner and Andrew Lamb in a sextet in tribute to Roy Campbell, Jr. the other day under Grand Central at 42nd St. Sublime.

Kalaparusha was a regular at 14th/Union Square on the 4/5/6 line. It was always a treat to see/hear and talk to the man.

TEST played regularly at Astor Place on the 6 throughout the latter half of the 90s and into the 00s. I think that stop still has some leftover juju; I always get a boost of energy walking through that station and it feels very special.