Tag: Tin Pan Alley

Jazz gigs—and we mean the exceptionally good ones—may be found in the most unlikely places around town. For a long time, the Manila Hotel had been getting bad press because its new owners seemed to have thrown its once glorious history out the window with the way it ran the place. And the prospect of watching live music, a jazz performance, for that matter, in the hotel was totally unheard of—until last year when management launched Jazz at the Tap Room featuring some of the country’s best musicians and singers performing nightly.