Profile in New York Jazz Record December 2013

“So the feeling I had at Smalls – it reminded me of the 55nd Street clubs: The Onyx, The Yact Club, JImmy Ryan’s, The Downbeat, The Three Deuces – they were in brownstones, you walked downstairs. And when you go to Smalls you walk downstairs: it’s a basement club, a small, intimate, relaxed club. Not a hustling place… “