Reed Miller Trio
Nolita Express Hostel220 Bowery, New York 10012
Reed Miller Trio brings Vintage Jazz Night to the Nolita Express Hostel, with guitarists Reed Miller and Shai Jaschek joined by bassist Scott Ritchie. Their program draws on music of the 1920s and 1930s, including Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, and George Gershwin, with more in the same vein. It is an unplugged trio set in the hostel's first-floor lounge, where the musicians play close to the audience amid communal seating.
The available information identifies this group through its personnel and repertoire: Miller, Jaschek, and Ritchie work as a guitar-guitar-bass trio focused here on early jazz and songbook material. The sources do not establish where the musicians are from, a wider professional history, or documented critical notices. What is clear is the frame for this date: a compact acoustic reading of Ellington, Armstrong, Reinhardt, Gershwin, and related 1920s and 1930s music.
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.