Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are open this April with a full slate of nightly performances! See who is performing and learn how to purchase tickets!
left when i was 15 months old i was the youngest. and so she had this project. we were her project. we were her kids, first of all, but. she used to pad around the living room with me on herfeet and play young gifted and black by bob and marcia and say look, they re playing our song. and it was this kind of, this act of hope and belief that, this is the early 1970s, britain is in a pretty dark place and also literally because there were kind of blackouts and things, but also racially and otherwise. and my mum had this sense that, well, we re just going to have to imagine the world that you are going to live in and we re going to have to imagine a place in your world that we have no evidence of. you get your education and then you make your choices. and if you want to be a columnist, be a columnist! you know, that would have been so far removed from anything
we were her kids, first of all, but. she used to pad around the living room with me on herfeet, and play young gifted and black by bob and marcia, and say look, they re playing our song. and it was this kind of, this act of hope and belief that, this is the early 1970s, britain is in a pretty dark place, and also literally, because there were kind of blackouts and things, but also racially and otherwise. and my mum had this sense that, well, we re just going to have to imagine the world that you are going to live in, and we re going to have to imagine a place in your world that we have no evidence of. you get your education and then you make your choices. and if you want to be a columnist, be a columnist! you know, that would have been so far removed from anything we would even have imagined at that time and the notion that you can make a living writing was actually not something that occurred
we were her kids, first of all. she used to pad around the living room with me on her feet and play young gifted and black by bob and marcia and say look, they re playing our song. and it was this kind of. this act of hope and belief that, this is the early 1970s, britain is in a pretty dark place, and also literally because there were kind of blackouts and things, but also racially and otherwise. and my mum had this sense that, well, we re just going to have to imagine the world that you are going to live in, and we re going to have to imagine a place in your world that we have no evidence of. you get your education, and then you make your choices. and if you want to be a columnist, be a columnist! you know, that would have been so far removed from anything we would even have imagined at that time. and the notion that you can make a living writing was actually not