Even After Pandemic Pause, Gotham Jazz Festival Proves a Miraculous Exercise
The fest focuses on earlier styles of jazz — New Orleans, ragtime, dixieland, blues, swing — in packing as much excitement as possible into a single, 11-hour-long day.
About halfway through Molly Ryan’s set at the Gotham Jazz Festival, she sang a risque blues number from 1924, “You’ve Got the Right Key, but the Wrong Keyhole.” The bridge of the song includes the following lines, “I’ve got a new man who is better than you. / He starts his loving where you get through.”
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