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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Harold Mabern Trio

September 11, 2019
75 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014, United States

To ensure the future of jazz, give every teenager in the world access to a basement like Fat Cat. Ping pong, pool, foosball, chess, scrabble, draft beer and live jazz: synapses so forged can never fade. On this particular evening, the hard-bop licks of this octogenarian, still-hard-swinging pianist should make more than a few cue sticks pause in mid-stroke. —E.E.