Stories from Sugar Hill

From 2006 till 2009, I lived on Sugar Hill “way up in Harlem” – right off the 145th Street stop of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s legendary ‘A’ Train. On the other side of the street was St. Nick’s Pub, a small historic jazz club that has hardly changed since the 1940s. Sometimes when I got home late at night, after a long day at the university and a gig in the evening, I would stand outside and watch the people on the street or have a chat with my neighbors. Especially in summer it was a