Frogman,
Kip Hanrahan and I both went to The Cooper Union, a school for art architecture and engineering in New York’s East Village, in the 70s, when the East Village was cool. He studied sculpture. I was a painting major.
Kip is an Irish Jew from the South Bronx, that’s how he ended up in Latin music. I’m Polacko-Rican, that’s how I ended up drawn to Latin Jazz.
Astor Piazzola also lived in the East Village. I saw Astor perform at SOB’s in 1988.
I knew Pinero briefly, having lived upstairs in the East Village tenement (do they still call them that these days?) that The Nuyorican Poets Cafe was founded in and that Pinero hung out in. I’m still friends with some of the surviving founders.
Kip lives in North Carolina these days. The music has been and is still a struggle financially for him.
Kip Hanrahan and I both went to The Cooper Union, a school for art architecture and engineering in New York’s East Village, in the 70s, when the East Village was cool. He studied sculpture. I was a painting major.
Kip is an Irish Jew from the South Bronx, that’s how he ended up in Latin music. I’m Polacko-Rican, that’s how I ended up drawn to Latin Jazz.
Astor Piazzola also lived in the East Village. I saw Astor perform at SOB’s in 1988.
I knew Pinero briefly, having lived upstairs in the East Village tenement (do they still call them that these days?) that The Nuyorican Poets Cafe was founded in and that Pinero hung out in. I’m still friends with some of the surviving founders.
Kip lives in North Carolina these days. The music has been and is still a struggle financially for him.