Farewell to The 55 Bar

Stan KillianMusic

55 Bar NYC

I played what would be my final gig at the 55 Bar last month.  The bar had been in the same location since 1919 and reports of live music taking place there go back to the 1950s.  Mike Stern made it a thing in the mid 1980s.  Here is a playlist of some videos of me performing there, going back to 2009, my earliest gigs in New York with Com Voce.  Included in the list is the “Evoke” Quartet with Mike Moreno, the “Unified” Quartet with Benito Gonzalez as well as the new “Brooklyn Calling” band with Paul Bollenback.  A great video with Alexia Bomtempo is featured there as well.  Thank you 55 Bar, for all the great work you gave the New York music community!