Reed Miller Trio
Nolita Express Hostel220 Bowery, New York 10012
Reed Miller Trio takes over Vintage Jazz Night at the Nolita Express Hostel with a three-piece program rooted in the songs and instrumental music of the 1920s and 1930s. Guitarists Reed Miller and Shai Jaschek join bassist Scott Ritichie for selections associated with Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, and George Gershwin, with further material in the same period-minded vein. The performance is part of the hostel’s first-floor lounge series, where small acoustic groups play close to the audience.
This billing brings together two guitars and bass for a focused reading of a repertoire that connects Ellington’s orchestra writing, Armstrong’s songbook, Reinhardt’s guitar-centered legacy, and Gershwin’s standards. Rather than presenting a single-composer tribute, the set ranges across several defining figures of early jazz and popular song. The listed musicians are Reed Miller, Shai Jaschek, and Scott Ritichie; no further biographical details, previous collaborations, hometowns, or critical quotations are provided for the trio. What is clear is the evening’s musical frame: a compact ensemble revisiting songs from an era that remains central to the jazz canon.
Vintage jazz nights transform the first-floor lounge of this 1927 Bowery building into an informal social salon, drawing neighborhood listeners and international travelers together around the music of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Django Reinhardt. Guests gather on communal seating in the lobby lounge, where acoustic guitar and upright bass trios play unplugged sets just feet from the audience. There is no traditional bar service or food menu; visitors instead find complimentary tea, water, and coffee, alongside a relaxed living-room environment where people sit back and focus on the tunes. Shows are generally free entry with an RSVP and a suggested donation for the musicians, running during early evening sets that leave the rest of the night open to explore the surrounding Bowery and Nolita dining scene.