Tag Humphrey, Percy
Jazz band sparkles in SPAC show
by Matthew Maguire, The Knickerbocker News, August 11, 1981
The music of New Orleans is rough and rambunctious — precisely what you’d expect of art conceived in bawdyhouses. Executed with proper verve, it compensates …
Preservation Hall Jazz Band plays a mix of styles at SPAC
by Woody Klein, Bennington Banner, June 21, 1980
With halting, dainty steps, they shuffle on stage, hunched over like frail old men. They look as if they should …
Jazz music at SPAC
Photo by Hubbard. Bennington Banner, June 17, 1975
Bit of New Orleans comes to SPAC
by Steve Grandin, The Saratogian
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band brought just a little bit of New Orleans to upstate New York Sunday night as it opened the season at the Saratoga Performing …
New Orleans jazz band gets audience into acts
by C. Robie Booth, The Knickerbocker News, June 16, 1975
Bourbon Street moved from New Orleans to Saratoga for an evening last night and more than 1,000 early-season music lovers were amply …
by Bill Skirving, The Knickerbocker News, June 26, 1974
From the number of Albany residents at Saratoga Performing Arts Center Sunday night to hear the Preservation Hall Jazz Band from New Orleans, there must have been more than a casual …
All That Jazz–Just Great
by Bernie Decker, The Knickerbocker News, June 15, 1970
There was no generation gap at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center last night, mainly because there was only one generation there — the older. And they heard …
Jazz Bands Please 3,000 At SPAC
by Marilyn Nason, The Post-Star, June 15, 1970
It was a short, delightful course in American jazz last night at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and the 3,000 attending showed their appreciation with …