Gotham City Band Keeps Ragtime and Jazz Alive in the Big Apple

The Gotham City Band performs at Zinc Bar in Greenwich Village with Kimberly Hawkey (C) on vocals, bandleader Terry Waldo (L) on piano, and Rickey Alexander on clarinet. Dave Paone/The Epoch Times

The scene in the jazz club was “The Great Gatsby” meets “Sultans of Swing.”

It didn’t play out in “London Town,” but on a summer night in New York City’s Greenwich Village. There was actually a “group of young boys” (well, they were 23) who were there to see a “trumpet-playing band.”