Award for Best CD/EP Release for her “Stay Here” project

Award for Best CD/EP Release for her “Stay Here” project Laura Anderson took home honors for Best Baritone Saxophone for the third year in a row.  While Lisa Hasselback, a multi-JazzBuffalo Poll winner, wins for Best Jazz Piano.  DeeAnn DiMeo Tompkins took home the award for Best CD/EP Release for her “Stay Here” project.  And, […]

Life is a cabaret, and your table is waiting

Life is a cabaret, and your table is waiting By Mary Kunz Goldman |  Published Thu, Mar 8, 2018 | Updated Fri, Mar 9, 2018 The cabaret of the musical “Cabaret” is history. But the cabaret spirit lives. It lives in the kind of venue where the lights are low. A grown-up environment where drinks are served. Where you sit at […]

DeeAnn performs at the Lewiston Jazz Festival

DeeAnn performs at the Lewiston Jazz Festival By Garaud MacTaggart – August 31, 2015 Based on the sheer number of folks who attended both days of this year’s Lewiston Jazz Festival, held Friday and Saturday, and the multitude of events available for the crowds to revel in, it appears all the hard work that the […]

Stu Weissman, DeeAnn Dimeo Tomkins, and Gary Sterlace performed Sunday in Iris restaurant.

Stu Weissman, DeeAnn Dimeo Tomkins, and Gary Sterlace performed Sunday in Iris restaurant. The names are familiar ones to anyone who has been paying attention to Buffalo’s vibrant blues scene over the past several decades. Jack Civiletto. Gary Sterlace (aka Speedy Parker), Wally Jetterman. Not household names, perhaps, but names that command respect among the […]