AUTHOR
APPEARANCES
MAY 2013
Thurs., May 2: Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project starring Mary
Wilson and the Larry Dunlap Trio; James Gavin
(host/narrator)
Straz Center, Tampa, FL
Sat., May 4: Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
Georgia Southern
University, Macon, GA
Sun.,
May 5: Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
Historic Douglas
Theater, Macon, GA
APRIL 2013
Thurs., Apr. 12, 7:30PM: Chet Baker:
Deep in a Dream with Spider
Saloff, James Gavin, and Dale White (trumpet)
College of St. Benedict Fine Arts Center, St. Joseph, MN
Sat.,
Apr. 14, 3PM: Chet Baker:
Deep in a Dream with Spider
Saloff, James Gavin, and Art Davis (trumpet)
Elgin Community College Performance Center, Elgin, IL
MARCH 2013
Sat., March 9: Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
FEBRUARY 2013
Fri., Feb. 8: Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
Heinz C.
Prechter Educational & Performing Arts Center, Wayne
County Community College, Taylor, MI
JANUARY 2013
Sun., Jan. 6,
11am-12 EST:
Janet Coleman's The Next Hour, WBAI-FM
DECEMBER
2012:
Sun., Dec. 2, 12pm: Talk About Peggy
Lee
Sundays at JASA,
John Jay College, NYC
NOVEMBER 2012
Fri., Nov. 9: Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
Miller Outdoor
Theater, Houston, TX
Sat.,
Nov. 10: Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
James Lumber
Performing Arts Center, College of Lake County, IL
Tues.,
Nov. 13: Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
Dirty Dawg Jazz
Café, Grosse Pointe, MI
Thurs., Nov. 15: Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
Madame Walker
Theater, Indianapolis, IN
Fri.,
Nov. 16: Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
Doudna Fine Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University,
Charleston, IL
Sat.,
Nov. 17: Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
Wentz Hall,
Northern Central College of Naperville, IL
Tues.,
Nov. 27, 2:40PM:
Phone interview
with Selina MacKenzie, Talk Radio Europe (Spain)
JUNE 2012:
Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
Adelaide Cabaret Festival, South Australia
Fri,
June 8: Variety Gala
Sat,
June 9, 3PM: 1st
performance
Sun,
June 10, 2PM and 6 PM:
2nd and 3rd performances
MAY 2012:
Fri.
May 11, 8:30PM
Sat., May 12, 7PM
Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project starring Mary
Wilson; James Gavin (host/narrator)
Smith Center for the Performing
Arts, Las Vegas,
NV
APRIL 2012:
Thurs., Apr. 19, 7:30PM:
Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
Mitchell Hall
Theater
University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond,
OK
OCTOBER 2011:
Sat.
Oct. 1, 7:30PM:
Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
Leach Theatre
103 Castleman Hall, 400 W. 10th St.
Missouri University, Rolla, MO
Sun.
Oct. 2:
Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
Florissant Civic Center Theater
One James J.
Eagen Dr.
Florissant, MO
Mon-Tues, Oct. 3-4, 8PM:
Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
The Washington
306 Washington
St., Burlington, IA
Thurs, Oct. 6, 7PM:
Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
Arts Council of Central
Louisiana
Coughlin-Saunders
Performing Arts Center
1202 Third St., Alexandria, LA
Fri.
Oct. 7, 8PM
Sat. Oct. 8, 4PM:
Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
The Library
Theater
Hoover Public Library
200 Municipal Dr., Hoover, AL
Sun., Oct. 9, 2PM:
Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
Fowler Center, Arkansas State
University
201 Olympic Dr.
State University, AR
SEPTEMBER
2011:
Thurs.
Sept. 29, 8:30PM:
Stormy
Weather: The Lena Horne Project
Musicians Institute Concert Hall
1655 N. McCadden
Pl., Hollywood, CA
AUGUST
2011
Mon. Aug, 1, 2-3PM (EST):
Cat Radio Café
with Janet Coleman, WBAI-FM (RE new edition of
Deep in a
Dream)
Mon.
Aug. 1, 7PM:
Guest Juror, the
Metropolitan Room's 4th Annual Metrostar Talent Challenge
34 W. 22nd St., New York
Sun.
Aug. 21, 7PM:
Deep in a
Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker - Live
Starring Spider
Saloff, trumpeter Erik Jekabson, pianist Ken Muir, and
James Gavin (narrator/host)
The San Francisco Jazz
Heritage Center
1320/1330 Fillmore St., San Francisco
APRIL 2011
Fri. Apr. 8, 2PM:
Lecture
on Intimate
Nights
Warburg Lounge, 92nd St. Y
1395 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10128
212-415-5450
Sun.
Apr. 10, 3PM:
Host: The 26th Annual Concert Celebrating the Life and
Music of Alec Wilder
Christ & St. Stephen's Church, 120 W. 69th St., New
York
MARCH 2011
Thurs. Mar. 10, 1:30-2:30PM:
Talk
about Intimate
Nights: The Golden Age of New York
Cabaret; Council House,
Gerson Cultural Arts Series, 241 W. 72nd St., New York
Sat.
Mar. 12, 5:40PM (CST):
Interview,
The Paul
Lisnek Show,
WVON-AM
Sun.
Mar. 13, 12:00-1:00PM:
Talk
about Intimate
Nights: The Golden Age of New York
Cabaret; John Jay
College, 899 Tenth Ave. (58-59), New York
Wed.
Mar. 16, 8PM:
Talk
about Stormy
Weather;
The
Special Collections Department, Detroit Public Library,
5201 Woodward Ave., Detroit
Fri.
Mar. 18, 12:15PM:
Interview with
Christopher Popa; The Music Information Center at Chicago
Public Library (Harold Washington Library Center, Cindy
Pritzker Auditorium, 400 S. State St.)
Sat.
Mar. 19, 6:30PM:
Deep in a
Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker
in
concert with Spider Saloff (vocals), Dennis Luxion (piano),
Art Davis (trumpet), James Gavin (host), Katerina's Supper
Club, 1920 W. Irving Park Rd., Chicago
Sat.
Mar. 26:
Stormy
Weather: The Life and Music of Lena Horne
with
Mary Wilson and the Mike Renzi Trio: Private event,
Scottsdale, AZ
NOVEMBER 2010
Tues. Nov. 16, 11AM (PST):
Interview with Brian
DeShazor for Pacifica
Radio Archive pledge drive, KPFK, Los
Angeles
OCTOBER 2010
Sat. Oct. 2, 8PM:
Stormy
Weather: The Life and Music of Lena Horne
(with Paula West
and Rebecca Parris), Kirkland Performing Arts
Center, Kirkland,
WA
SEPTEMBER
2010
Wed. Sept. 22, 5PM:
Talk on Lena
Horne: Institute of Jazz
Studies, Rutgers
University, Newark, New Jersey (with Daryl Sherman
singing songs of Lena)
Sun.
Sept. 26, 3-4PM:
West Hollywood Book
Fair:
Biographers' panel with Bill Marx (Son of
Harpo Speaks) and Ray
Charles Robinson, Jr. (You Don't
Know Me: Reflections of My Father, Ray
Charles); Luke
Yankee, moderator; West Hollywood Park, 647 N. San
Vicente Blvd.
Tues.
Sept. 28, 6PM:
Talk on Lena
Horne and Stormy
Weather,
Palm Springs Public
Library, 300 S.
Sunrise Way
Wed.
Sept. 29, 7PM:
Talk on Lena
Horne for Women in
Jazz exhibit,
San Francisco Jazz Heritage
Center,
1320 Fillmore
St
JULY 2010
Wed. July 28, 2010, 11AM (EST):
Jazz Café with
Bob Collins, WRHU-FM (Hofstra
University)
MAY 2010
Wed. May 5, 2010, 8 & 10PM:
Stormy
Weather: The Life and Music of Lena Horne
(with Paula West
and Rebecca Parris), Blues Alley, Washington,
D.C .
Fri.
May 7, 2010, 8:15PM (PST):
Bill Feingold
Unleashed radio interview, K-News FM, 94.3, Palm
Springs, CA
Sat. May 8, 2010, 3-5PM:
Signing/reading
and launch party, Stormy
Weather paperback
Just Fabulous
bookstore
515 N. Palm Canyon Dr.
Palm Springs, CA 92262
760-864-1300
Mon.
May 10, 2010, 4:25PM (Australian Standard Time):
ABC News Radio,
Australia; interview with John
Barron
Mon.
May 10, 2010, 5:45AM (PST):
[Doug] McIntyre's Red-Eye Radio, KABC, Los Angeles
Mon.
May 10, 2010, 10AM (British Standard Time):
BBC World
Service interview
Mon.
May 10, 2010, 11:40AM (PST):
AirTalk with Larry
Mantle, KPCC-FM
Mon.
May 10, 2010, 9:30PM (EST):
Al Jazeera TV
Network interview on Lena Horne
Mon.
May 10, 2010, 7PM (EST):
PBS NewsHour with Jeffrey
Brown
Tues.
May 11, 2010, 9:40AM (EST):
Democracy Now!
with Amy
Goodman (TV/radio)
Tues.
May 11, 2010, 11AM-12PM (EST):
On Point with Tom Ashbrook
(NPR)
Tues.
May 11, 2010:
Michael Eric Dyson
Show, WEAA-FM,
Baltimore
Tues,
May 11, 2010:
TV Estadão, São
Paulo (video interview
with Lucia
Guimarães)
Wed.
May 12, 2010, 7PM:
Signing/reading,
Lena Horne paperback
Eso Won Bookstore
4331 Degnan
Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90008
323-290-1048
Sun.
May 16, 2010, 5:30PM (PST):
The Joey English
Show, K-News Radio, Palm Springs
Sun.
May 16, 2010, 7:30-8PM (PST):
The Joanne
Griffith Show, BBC Radio 5, U.K.
Thurs.
May 20, 2010, 11AM (PST):
KPFK/Pacifica
Radio interview, SF
Fri.
May 21, 2010, 2PM:
Lecture
on Stormy
Weather
Warburg Lounge, 92nd St. Y
1395 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10128
212-415-5450
APRIL
2010
Mon. Apr. 12, 2010, 2-3PM (EST):
Cat Radio Café
with Janet Coleman, WBAI-FM
Mon.
Apr. 19, 2010, 8-10PM (EST):
Fritz Homans
Show, WERU-FM (Maine)
Sat.
Apr. 24, 2010, 8 & 10PM:
Premiere of
Horne tribute concert Stormy Weather: The Life and Music of
Lena Horne with singers
Rebecca Parris and Paula West, pianist/arranger George
Mesterhazy, and host/narrator James Gavin at Sculler's,
Boston, MA
Sun. Apr. 25, 2010, 4PM:
Stormy
Weather: The Life and Music of Lena
Horne,
Camden Opera
House, Camden, ME
Fri.
Apr. 30, 2010:
BBC interview
for forthcoming cabaret documentary
MARCH
2010
Thurs. Mar. 18, 2010, 1:30PM:
Talk, Council
Senior Center, 241 W. 72nd St., New York
Tues.
Mar. 30, 2009, 7:30 (PST):
Skip E. Lowe
Looks at Hollywood (Time Warner Cable, Ch. 36, L.A.)
DECEMBER
2009
Sun.
Dec. 13, 2009:
Interview with Tom
Schnabel, KCRW (So.
CA NPR)
NOVEMBER
2009
Sun.
Nov. 1, 2009, 8-11PM:
David Kenney's
"Everything Old Is New Again," WBAI-FM: Pledge Drive
interview special, Part 1
Tues.
Nov. 3, 2009, 1PM:
Dutch Treat
Club, National Arts Club, New York: Lena talk with songs by
Paula West/Jon Weber, piano
Thurs.
Nov. 12, 2009:
Address at St.
Mary's School, Yonkers, NY (James's old grade school)
OCTOBER
2009
Sat. Oct. 10, 2009:
New York Sheet
Music Society: Lena Horne tribute with Genie "Pepper"
Swinson, Eric Comstock, and Barbara Fasano
Sun.
Oct. 25, 2009, 8-11PM:
David Kenney's
"Everything Old Is New Again," WBAI-FM: Pledge Drive
interview special, Part 1
SEPTEMBER 2009
Fri. Sept. 4, 2009:
The Joey
Reynolds Show, WOR-AM (2-4AM, EST) with Sondra Lee, Charles
Busch
Mon.
Sept. 14, 2009:
The Joey
Reynolds Show, WOR-AM (2-4AM, EST) with David Freeland
(author of Automats,
Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville)
Tues.
Sept. 15, 2009:
Taping: The Joe
Franklin Show, Bloomberg Radio
Thurs.
Sept. 17, 2009, 7PM:
Literary Death
Match, Bowery
Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York
Fri.
Sept. 18, 2009, 7PM:
Stormy
Weather screening
followed by talk, GMHC, 119 W. 24th St., New York
AUGUST 2009
Sun. Aug. 2, 2009, 7:50AM-8AM (EST):
Interview,
Weekend Today in New
York (NBC-TV)
Sun.
Aug. 2, 2009, 6:30-7PM (PST):
Book Talk with Alan
Farley, KALW-FM, San Francisco
Thurs,
Aug 6, 2009:
Coast-to-Coast
Satellite Radio Tour:
7:15-7:25AM (EST): CBS Radio News, WCBS-FM (New York)
7:40-8:00AM (EST): Bob Harden Show, WGUF-FM (Ft. Meyers,
FL)
8:00-8:15AM (EST): WAMC-AM & FM (NPR, Regional
Northeast)
8:20-8:35AM (EST): KHHT-FM Weekend Show (Los Angeles)
8:45-9:00AM (EST): WLIU-FM's In the Morning (New York)
9:00-9:15AM (EST): WTTS-FM's Over Easy (Indianapolis)
9:20-9:30AM (EST): Metro Networks News Feature, taped
(Regional FL)
9:30-9:40AM (EST): WHAM-AM Morning Show (Rochester, NY)
9:40-9:50AM (EST): WPFW-FM Public Affairs Show (Washington,
D.C.)
10:00-10:10AM (EST): Feisty Side of Fifty, taped
(Nationally syndicated)
10:10-10:20AM (EST): KBBO-AM Morning Show (Yakima, WA)
10:45-10:55AM (EST): KZEN-FM's Point of View (Omaha, NE)
11:08-11:20AM (EST): KNUU-AM Good Morning Show (Las Vegas)
11:20-11:30AM (EST): Kevyn Berger Show, WFMP-FM
(Minneapolis)
11:30-11:45AM (EST): WOND-AM Midday Show with Barbara
Altman (Philadelphia)
11:45AM-12:00PM (EST): WGTD-FM (NPR) News feature, taped
(Milwaukee)
12-12:15PM (EST): Tron in the Morning (with Tron Simpson),
KCMN (CO Springs)
2:40-3:00PM (EST): Don Shelby Show, WCCO-AM (Minneapolis)
Thurs,
Aug. 7, 2009:
The Joey
Reynolds Show, WOR-AM (3-5AM EST) with Terry
Trilling-Josephson (author of Cafe
Society: The Wrong Place for the Right
People), Joe Gilford,
Will Friedwald
Mon.
Aug. 10, 2009, 11:30AM (EST):
The Lynn Johnson Motivational Radio
Show
Tues.
Aug. 11, 2009, 9PM:
Interview,
Jazz with
Eric (Jackson) in the Evening
WGBH-FM, Boston
Thurs.
Aug. 13, 2009, 8:35 (EST):
Doug McIntyre
Show, KABC, Los Angeles
Thurs. Aug. 13, 2009, 6:30-8PM:
Busboys &
Poets, 2021 14th St. NW (at V), Washington, D.C.
(Reading, signing)
Fri.
Aug. 14, 2009:
NewsHour
interview with Jeffrey Brown, Arlington,
VA
WATCH HERE
Sun.
Aug. 23, 2009, 11PM-12AM (EST):
Interview, Jazz from the Archives with Dan Morgenstern,
WBGO-FM, Newark
Wed.
Aug 26, 2009:
Taped interview with Mark
Lynch, "Inquiry,"
WICN (New England NPR)
JULY
2009
Wed. July 1, 2009, 7:30PM:
Barnes &
Noble-Lincoln Triangle
Broadway & 65th St, New York
(A conversation with ace author and
interviewer-of-the-stars Tom Santopietro)
(SEE YOUTUBE
CLIP)
Tues.
July 7, 2009:
Taping,
Skip E. Lowe
Looks at Hollywood, Los Angeles
Broadcast times TBA
Thurs.
July 9, 2009, 8:30PM (EST):
Live! With Lisa Radio
Show,
WSTC/WNLK/WYBC, Connecticut
Fri.
July 10, 2009, 11:30AM (PST):
AirTalk with Larry
Mantle, KPCC-FM,
Los Angeles
(PLAY INTERVIEW
HERE; SCROLL DOWN
FOR JULY 10)
Sat.
July 11, 2009, 7PM:
Book Soup, 8818 Sunset
Blvd., West Hollywood
(Reading, signing)
Mon.
July 13, 9-10AM:
Interview (with Kaye Ballard), Steve Kelly Show, RR
Broadcasting, Palm Springs
Mon.
July 13, 2009, 4:30PM:
Taping, The
Gloria Greer Show, Time Warner Cable, Palm Springs
Mon.
July 13, 2009, 9PM:
Interview,
Bulldog Bill Feingold Unleashed, K-News Radio, Palm Springs
(CLICK HERE FOR
PODCAST)
Wed.
July 15, 2009:
Taping, New America Now
with Sandip
Roy, KALW-FM
(Broadcast time TBA)
Wed.
July 15, 2009, 7PM:
Museum of Performance and
Design, 401 Van
Ness Ave., San Francisco
(Reading, signing, performance by singer Paula West)
Sat.
July 18, 2009, 8PM:
Jazzschool, 2087
Addison St., Berkeley, CA
(Reading/signing/live interview with Maye Cavallaro)
Tues.
July 21, 2009, 7AM hour:
Good Day Atlanta
(TV)
(SEE CLIP)
Wed.
July 22, 2009, 8PM:
Margaret Mitchell
House, 990
Peachtree St., Atlanta, GA
(Reading, talk, signing)
Thurs.
July 30, 2009, 2PM:
Interview, Soundcheck
(with John
Schaefer), WNYC-FM
Listen HERE
JUNE 2009
Sun. June 21, 2009, 9-11PM:
Everything
Old Is New Again with David
Kenney
WBAI radio, 99.5 FM
Sat. June 27, 2009, 9:30AM:
The David
Rothenberg Show, WBAI-FM, New York
Sun.
June 28, 2009, 2PM:
Benefit reading for Jazz Foundation of America
Ann Ruckert's home, Upper West Side, Manhattan
(SEE YOUTUBE SEGMENT)
Mon. June 29, 2009, 6-8PM:
Hue-Man Bookstore
2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd. (124-125th Sts.), Harlem
(Reading, signing, and screening of exciting Lena Horne TV
rarities)
Tues.
June 30, 2009:
Podcast
interview, Psychjourney
with
Deborah Harper
LISTEN HERE!
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