https://www.npr.org/2024/01/02/1222544492/les-mccann-pianist-obit


I miss all these cats but Les was special to me.
Sad to see him go.

I'm really going to try this year. Not in the winter.

Spike posted this on Facebook last night. Means I still might have a chance to see Mezzrow: :) As hard as it is for me to believe this, the Mezzrow 10 year lease expires in January. So many rich memories in that club over 10 years! I am pleased to announce that our landlord has agreed to extend our ...

Latest from Spike: The SmallsLIVE Newsletter - 12/26/2022 Dear Friends - I find it hard to believe that I've now been involved with Smalls Jazz Club since 1994. The club is closing in on 30 years of operation. I remember well, it was just after the closing of The Village Gate, that my friend Grant S...

The latest from Spike who comes out swinging at detractors...... SmallsLIVE Newsletter Dear Friends - As Summer progresses to Fall I can't help but consider the passage of time - the water flowing under the bridge. I look around at the scene and the clubs. My good friend Gerry Gibbs performed last w...

RIP Ellyn Rucker - long-time favorite pianist and vocalist in Denver.

https://www.kuvo.org/forever-in-our-hea ... lyn-rucker

Great album!

Live st Smalls tonight. Great group. :#1: Steve Turre (tr) Josh Evans (tr),Vincent Harring (as), Mike Ledonne (p), Peter Washington (b), Orion Turre (d) Live at Smalls Jazz Club - New York City - 4/22/22 for more info - http://www.smallslive.com

Two long years...... Dear Friends - On March 16th, 2020, I saw something that I had never seen before in all my time in New York City - restaurants giving away all their food. It wasn't a block party or a festival. It was an order from our governor to shut down all businesses in New York City as a p...

Interesting... Dear Friends: At the end of this month will mark 15 years that I've been involved in operating and managing Smalls Jazz Club. My college buddy, Lee Kostrinsky, and I came in with the creator of Smalls, Mitch Borden, to partner up and run the club back in February of 2007. There's been...

Update from Spike Wilner: January 17, 2022 Dear Friends: Smalls and Mezzrow are chugging along, through the thick and the thin of it. I am reluctant to report too much because it seems that everything I write lately is misconstrued and I get some rather angry responses. I don't want to turn the club...

This album was a favorite in the late 60s in houses we lived in - CU, Boulder. Intro to (the late) Tony Williams. Album disappeared. Going to relisten - thanks for posting.

Totally agree. I hope that Spike has discussed this with media outlets. It’s a helluva story.

Indeed! I'll bet the Captain is a joy to live with.

A fitting end to the "Spike, Smalls, Mezzrow, NYC - Enduring the Pandemic", chronicles. A long journey. Spike deserves a key to the city. The SmallsLIVE Foundation Newsletter 5/31/21 Dear Friends - There's a joyfulness in the air. I imagine it's what it might feel like at the end of a war...

The SmallsLIVE Foundation Newsletter 5/10/21 Dear Friends - So we've got three weeks under our belt in operation at both venues. At Mezzrow we've now extended the week to include Tuesday and Wednesday. The limitations on our capacities is still at the COVID-19 levels (15 at Smalls and 13 at Mezzrow)...

Indeed. I can't imagine what it's been like for Spike. Getting bounced around for a year by Cuomo and DeBlasio, who hate each other. Then some anonymous, heartless fool accused him of breaking city rules even though he wasn't. NYC has big plans of opening damn near everything and Cuomo needs a ratin...

The SmallsLIVE Foundation Newsletter 4/20/2021 Dear Friends - It was a pleasure sitting "on the front stoop" greeting patrons and telling them about who's playing and what's going on. Many folks eager to come back to Smalls and Mezzrow and experience a live show. We are limited to 15 peopl...

Smalls Jazz Club, Emblem of Pandemic Perseverance, Shifts Gears Yet Again WBGO | By Nate Chinen Published March 22, 2021, at 1:49 PM EDT Spike Wilner, owner of Smalls Jazz Club, at the piano with Minnow the Jazz Cat. Through all the ups and downs of the coronavirus crisis, no independent music venu...

Same here, Justin. I'll make every reasonable effort to visit Smalls and Mezzrow when the craziness ends. Adding another update from Spike, with a degree of optimism that I haven't seen since the pandemic began. I sent another small donation. I believe that every contribution, large or small, helps....

Really sad and shocking. I have been following his online and zoom classes on Facebook and he has just seemed so vibrant and active and certainly not in ill health. Terrible loss.