Since the earliest days of jazz New York City has been a beacon for performers looking to make a go of it. From the teens and 20s through the 40s and 50s, the 70s, and right through to today generations of jazz musicians have seen a move to the Big Apple as the next stage of their development. Once there, those generations mingle, the younger learning from the older, while also keeping their elders on their toes.
I Double Dare You, the new album from veteran Terry Waldo, and rising star Tatiana Eva-Marie is a great example of what results from that mixing. Balancing Waldo's experience and Eva-Marie's finger on the pulse they have produced a collection of timeless tracks, gathered from the American Songbook, that should please serious jazz fans of every generation.
Terry Waldo is a well established pianist in the New York jazz scene now, but my first knowledge of him comes from his days as a researcher during the ragtime revival of the 1970s and protegee of Eubie Blake. When I wanted to school myself for the ragtime audience of this paper I read his book, "This is Ragtime", which was named for his acclaimed 26 part NPR radio series from 1974. Last year he started a new This is Ragtime podcast I encourage you to sample. Waldo has been in New York for decades now, playing jazz with full bands more often then solo ragtime. He was on our cover back in April and I encourage you to rea
