George Gee News

Bryant Park Presents announces the full lineup for the 2017 weekly Dance Party!

Bryant Park Corporation announces the schedule for performing arts series Bryant Park Presents. Now celebrating its second year, the series aims to be the most accessible venue in New York City to experience a wide range of extraordinary artists in a beautiful outdoor setting.

Multiple award-winning theatre, film and television actress, Ebony Jo-Ann releases her new Blues CD, Please Save Your Love for Me on her independent label, Blackgold Production on Friday, September 18th.

BLUE NOTE JAZZ FESTIVAL, PROHIBITION PRODUCTIONS, and CEG PRESENT bring to you Times Square Hot Jazz and Swing Tri-Festa and Blue Note Jazz Festival featuring Svetlana, her Delancey Five with Wycliffe Gordon and George Gee Big Band Orchestra!

BLUE NOTE JAZZ FESTIVAL, PROHIBITION PRODUCTIONS, and CEG PRESENT bring to you Times Square Hot Jazz and Swing Tri-Festa and Blue Note Jazz Festival featuring Svetlana, her Delancey Five with Wycliffe Gordon and George Gee Big Band Orchestra!

The Times Square Alliance announces the return of Taste of Times Square - an outdoor food and music festival - featuring international flavors from the district's top restaurants and the city's best street performers at the Crossroads of the World.  More than fifty of Times Square's most popular culinary destinations will offer "tastes" ranging from $2-$6 on Monday, June 1 from 5:00 - 9:00pm. The event will be on 46th St. between Broadway and 9th Avenue (including historic Restaurant Row) as well as the Broadway Plazas between 45th and 47th Streets.

Birdland Jazz Club has announced its schedule for February 16 - February 22, including the Billy Childs Jazz Quartet, Barbara Carroll, Jazz Party with Natalie Douglas, and more. Details below!

Bring your dancing shoes down to the Suncoast Showroom for the George Gee Swing Orchestra, featuring vocalists Hilary Gardner and John Dokes, for a one-night-only big band dance event on Friday, July 4.

Bring your dancing shoes down to the Suncoast Showroom for the swingin' sounds of the George Gee Orchestra, featuring vocalist John Dokes, for a one-night-only big band dance event on Saturday, February 1.

As New York City bandleader George Gee says, “Swing Makes You Happy” and that's the title of the George Gee Swing Orchestra's Kickstarter campaign to fund a double CD of new music. The campaign runs through December 12th on Kickstarter.com. When their goal is reached the recording process begins in New York and continues until the final CD is ready in May of 2014. Says Gee “The GGSO is making this CD to honor the swingin' BIG BAND sound and its creators, as well as give voice to modern, yet eminently danceable compositions featuring the arrangements and original writing by the band's highly-regarded Music Director and Trombonist David Gibson.” The band aims to record their new music and continue the tradition of swingin' big bands.

One Hundred and Twenty-Five years ago this New Year's Eve, America's most celebrated actor, Edwin Booth gave the Deed of 16 Gramercy Park South to The Players. The Players tradition has been to read the deed in front of the Great Hall fire place echoing back to Edwin Booth and the Founding Members. This year, this tradition continues along with live music, dancing, and more festivities as The Players kicks off a new era, sharing a toast to its founders and celebrating 125 years at 'A Certain Club.'

Today, July 4th, 2013 The Salon, The Champagne Riot, and Wit's End join forces for a fourth year to present another unforgettable vintage Fourth of July extravaganza. This year, we'll be lighting up not one, but TWO of NYC's hottest rooftops with the finest vintage entertainment, hot music, and raucous patriotic revelry - with over 75 performers including 9 bands, Burlesque, Vaudville and more! For the first time, LIBERTY BELLE has partnered Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing, for even more dancing, and live big band music; plus several of our performers will be featured on the Lincoln Center stage, and LIBERTY BELLE is the official July 4th after-party!

On July 4th, 2013 The Salon, The Champagne Riot, and Wit's End join forces for a fourth year to present another unforgettable vintage Fourth of July extravaganza. This year, we'll be lighting up not one, but TWO of NYC's hottest rooftops with the finest vintage entertainment, hot music, and raucous patriotic revelry - with over 75 performers including 9 bands, Burlesque, Vaudville and more! For the first time, LIBERTY BELLE has partnered Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing, for even more dancing, and live big band music; plus several of our performers will be featured on the Lincoln Center stage, and LIBERTY BELLE is the official July 4th after-party!

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, along with the City of New York and the United States Navy, celebrates the 25th annual Fleet Week, to be held from May 23 - May 28, 2012. Fleet Week is America's premier tribute and "thank you" to the men and women who serve in the armed forces.

The public is invited to join with members of Young Patrons of Lincoln Center (YPLC) to sharpen their dancing skills, for free, at the David Rubenstein Atrium on the evenings of June 6th, 13th, and 20th, for "Dancing 101s."

Tickets go on sale today for Lincoln Center's 24th season of Midsummer Night Swing taking place Tuesdays through Saturdays, June 26-July 14. Swing's 15 dazzling nights of dancing, and one free daytime lesson for children, take place at the bandshell and elevated dance floor in Damrosch Park, on West 62nd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. Midsummer Night Swing offers an array of dance music styles including salsa, swing, tango, rock 'n' roll, and bhangra. Because of the national holiday there will be no Swing on July 4th, so a special Monday night will be added on July 2nd.

Following several years of their wildly successful parties on the night before New Years Eve, THE SALON is set to present another unforgettable vintage affair - their 4th annual NEW YEARS EVE EVE party at the historic Copacabana in Times Square, in the final event celebrating their 10th Anniversary year.

Following several years of their wildly successful parties on the night before New Years Eve, THE SALON is set to present another unforgettable vintage affair - their 4th annual NEW YEARS EVE EVE party at the historic Copacabana in Times Square, in the final event celebrating their 10th Anniversary year.