Whiskey Comes To Harlem At The Harlem Whiskey Festival 2017
The Harlem Whiskey Festival 2017 presented by Exclusive Access Group is a one-of-a-kind Whiskey & Entertainment experience for Whiskey Aficionado's. Continue reading
Harlem Chef JJ Johnson Inspires Cocktail For National Moscow Mule Day 2017 (Update)
On Friday, March 3, 2017, for the annual South Beach Wine and Food Festival 2017, Smirnoff worked with one of Harlem's top chef's Chef JJ Johnson of Minton’s in Harlem at the event. Continue reading
Chef JJ Johnson Debuts New Menu At Legendary Minton’s In Fabulous Harlem
Minton’s, the historic jazz club located at 206 West 118th Street in Harlem and founded in 1938, announces that it will re-open on Wednesday, January 11th, 2017 with an all-new menu by Executive Chef Joseph “JJ” Johnson and a renowned musical line-up of emerging jazz artists.
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‘Mornin’ Fast Train From Memphis To Harlem,’ Miles Davis, 1969 (Video)
Miles Davis playing in Miles mode. Not sure of the Memphis to Harlem connection in the song, but we know he played at Cecil And Minton's Harlem, around the corner from the Lenox Lounge and he was married to actress and Harlemite Cicely Tyson in the early 1980's.Continue reading
Harlem’s Charles Christian Inventor Of The Electric Guitar Solo (Video)
Charles Henry "Charlie" Christian (July 29, 1916 – March 2, 1942) was an American swing and jazz guitarist who lived and played the electric guitar throughout Harlem.Continue reading
Master/Class Listening Party & Performance With Dannis Winston At Minton’s In Harlem
"Master / Class speaks to my commitment to being a student of the greats everyone from Duke Ellington to Quincy Jones to Harry Belafonte and master of my own sense of class,” explains Dannis Winston about his debut EP. Continue reading
New Madison Square Boys & Girls Club In Harlem Revealed
Monday night, at a cocktail reception hosted at Minton’s by co-owners Dick Parsons and Alexander Smalls, Madison Square Boys & Girls Club (Madison) unveiled designs for a new four-story, 45,000-sq.-ft. flagship Clubhouse for young people ages 6-18, located in Central Harlem.Continue reading
Harlem Fave Richard Parsons Chair Of Rockefeller Foundation
Richard Parsons, the former board leader of Citigroup Inc. and Time Warner Inc., was named chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation, the century-old philanthropy that’s funded Nobel Prize-winning researchers, helped stave off pandemics and assisted communities ravaged by natural disasters.Continue reading
Chef McCargo, Jr., Rev Run And Justine Simmons At Midnight Jazz Breakfast In Harlem
The event hosts Rev Run and Justine Simmons with Chef Aaron McCargo, Jr., served up Smithfield late-night bites at the inaugural Midnight Jazz Breakfast at The Cecil and adjoining iconic 1940s jazz club, Minton’s in Harlem USA.Continue reading
Joseph “JJ” Johnson Named Exec Chef At Minton’s In Harlem
Chef Joseph "JJ" Johnson has been named Executive Chef of Alexander Smalls and Dick Parsons Minton's and The Cecil, 206 West 118th Street, in Harlem USA.Continue reading
The Cecil / Minton’s Host Harlem Film Festival’s 10th
This year marks the 10th Anniversary of The Harlem International Film Festival. To celebrate this momentous occasion The Cecil, NYC's first Afro-Asian-American Brasserie, and Minton's, Harlem's sexy jazz supper club, will be hosting various events throughout the week.
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Minton’s Jazz Performances For August In Harlem
Classical Theatre of Harlem to Present The Tempest
The 15th anniversary season of The Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH) (Ty Jones, Producing Artistic Director; David Roberts, Managing Director) continues with CTH's free, summer, uptown production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, presented in partnership with City Parks Foundation's SummerStage festival.Continue reading
