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David Hajdu and His Famous Flames

On Sunday evening, Geoff and Lynette from Jalopy kindly lent us their stage for a reading and music performance. David Hajdu spoke about Billy Eckstine (from an essay included in his recent collection, Heroes and Villains), and then picked up a guitar to a perform a few songs related to the book with his impromptu band of Seth Fahey, James Marcus, and David's wife, acclaimed jazz-pop vocalist Karen Oberlin.

Above, James Marcus solos on guitar to the tune of Dream a Little Dream of Me. Cass Elliott, eat your heart out. If not that ham sandwich.
--Peter

"Free"bird concert at Jalopy--this Sunday at 6 pm

Photo by Tom Stoelker

Just a reminder that the gang above--David Hajdu (center), Karen Oberlin, James Marcus, and Seth Fahey (not pictured)--perform Sunday night at Jalopy Theatre. David will also be talking about his new book, Heroes and Villains, a collection of his culture pieces for The New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and other outlets.

David Hajdu and Karen Oberlin at Jalopy Theatre

Special event at Jalopy Theatre (315 Columbia Street)

Sunday, April 25, 6 pm

Music performance and book discussion with David Hajdu and Karen Oberlin

In conjunction with the release of his new collection of essays, Heroes and Villains, David Hajdu dishes about the music biz and performs with his wife, jazz-pop vocalist Karen Oberlin. James Marcus joins them on electric guitar and lap-steel guitar, along with Seth Fahey on stand-up bass and clarinet.

David Hajdu is the music critic for The New Republic and a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn (1996), Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña (2001), and The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America (2008). Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture was recently published by Da Capo Press.

Karen Oberlin is an acclaimed vocalist with a deep background in classical music, jazz, cabaret, theater and musical theater who has performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Town Hall, Iridium Jazz Club, Feinstein's, Merkin Hall and The Metropolitan Room. The recipient of the Bistro and MAC awards, her albums include "My Standards" (Miranda Music), “Secret Love: The Music of Doris Day” (Miranda Music), and the forthcoming "A Wish" (Miranda Music).