Smoke Celebrates 10th Annual Coltrane Festival with George Coleman / Eric Alexander Quintet

Four months after opening their new expanded room, Smoke Jazz and Supper Club co-owners Paul Stache and wife Molly Sparrow Johnson reinstituted their annual Coltrane festival with a show dubbed “Countdown 2023.” Fittingly, the festival opening featured 87 year-old tenor legend and frequent headliner George Coleman together with saxophonist Eric Alexander and drummer Joe Farnsworth–members of the One For All group that helped establish Smoke as the iconic club that it has become… [ read more ]