A group of chums from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism headed uptown to 149th and St. Nicholas Avenue to celebrate our end of the semester @ St. Nick's Pub in Harlem's Sugar Hill neighborhood.
The historic Pub is a local watering hole for musicians and they come from near and far, whether it's to tap-tap-tap on the keys, strum tunes on the guitar, toot on the horns or croon into the mic.
Back in the day, greats such as Duke Ellington's piano player, Lucky Roberts, Art Tatum and Joe Jordan had jam sessions in this very place, where they brought down the house.
Some would say that the ghosts of yesterday's jazz were in the house last night as the Donald Smith Sextet set the mood for an evening of smooth grooves.
