Summer is my favorite season at the Palladium. Our rental and community business slows down and we get to present great bands and performers, many local, in the cool confines of the Side Door cabaret. This is a perfect summer weekend for music lovers. With jazz (Zach Bartholomew and James[…]
Choosing recipients for our annual Palladium Jazz Award has been easy so far. The choices have been obvious. We’ve honored longtime WUSF programmer Mike Cornette, photographer Herb Snitzer, the duo of Kitty Daniels and Majid Shabazz, bassist John Lamb, and the Al Downing Jazz Association and longtime Downing board member[…]
We’ve been telling you for the past year that our Palladium membership program – “Friends With Benefits” – really lives up to its name. Tonight, we’re proving it again with a special “Buy One – Get One Free” offer for the Nate Najar Trio show in the Side Door. […]
At first we thought the Rose Bilal benefit – For the Love of Rose – would fill the Side Door cabaret. But by Sunday, the show had moved upstairs and more than 375 people turned out. And for everyone involved – it was a day to remember. Rose[…]
I can’t recall the first time I met Rose Bilal – sometime in the early ‘90s I think – but whenever it was, I’m sure neither of us had any idea how much our lives would interconnect over the years. After I got word that she had suffered a stroke[…]
The Palladium is proud to be part of a great benefit concert for one of Tampa Bay’s best jazz and soul singers – Rose Bilal. Rose has been a longtime friend of mine and I don’t think I’ve ever seen her without a smile on her face. She’s performed[…]
Loved the new music issue of Creative Loafing now out on the stand. Your favorite small venue, the Palladium’s Side Door Cabaret, get’s a great mention in a story on the local jazz scene. The story features the boys from La Lucha – Mark, Alejandro and John – and leads[…]
I’m excited about the return of La Lucha to the Side Door this Saturday Night at 8. Their CD release party last summer was a highlight of the season. They are back in the Side Door with new material and lots of favorites from their first two albums. Joining them[…]
This Thursday, July 11, The Palladium’s Side Door Cabaret hosts a special evening of Brazilian jazz featuring two amazing acoustic guitarists. Palladium favorite Nate Najar shares the stage with South Florida guitarist Phill Fest. Phill played and recorded Brazilian jazz with his late father, the renowned pianist Manfredo Fest. Manfredo[…]
Not sure what the rest of St. Pete did for music last Saturday night. But I do know that a heavy percentage of the working musicians from our area were at the Palladium that night for a concert featuring Bob James, David Sanborn, Steve Gadd and James Genus (the bassist[…]
Tampa Bay Times arts writer John Fleming interviewed David Manson, leader of O Som Do Jazz, in advance of Thursday’s CD release party at the Palladium Side Door. Here’s an excerpt from his story: David Manson is one of the most versatile musicians around. A trombonist, he has[…]
With the great jazz vocalist Kurt Elling coming in concert at the Palladium on June 7, I wanted to share this item from London’s Guardian newspaper. In April, Elling had an extended stay at Ronnie Scott’s, the legendary London jazz club that’s been around since the 1959. […]
“We sat down on the floor in an apartment in New York City and came up with a tune was very exciting…collaboration in that era was a brand new ballgame for me,” Stookey said. “I think (Bob) Dylan’s strong presence, ideologically, contributed to a lot of writers taking chances and speaking out of their personal perspective.”
