Jambase: Soulive with Joshua Redman at New York’s (Le) Poisson Rouge
Posted on 12. Mar, 2009 by admin in Interviews, Showcase
July 2008 – Jambase.com : Soulive with Joshua Redman :: 06.27.08 :: (Le) Possion Rouge :: New York, NY
Hanging modestly from the second story of a gray-brick building deep in the heart of New York’s West Village, an iconic art deco sign reads: “The Village Gate: Politics. Sex. Reality.” Nowadays, the sign is a sort of historical land marker, denoting the location of one of New York’s former great music clubs, Art D’Lugoff’s Village Gate. Though the Gate closed in 1993, the sign remains fastened above the corner of Thompson and Bleeker. Today, the sign symbolically invokes a certain type of nostalgia for a much romanced bygone era of Greenwich Village; an era of prideful bohemian eccentricity and titanic artistic accomplishment – the looming “ghosts” of iconoclastic greats like Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, Joan Baez, Charlie Parker, Dylan Thomas, etc.
