Happy Hour Hang: Jen Shyu

MUSIC
MONDAY, MAY 4, 2020
6:00 PM

Jazz Gallery
Zoom

$15
https://www.jazzgallery.org/calendar/happy-hour-jen-shyu

Several nights a week, the Jazz Gallery is putting on early evening remote sessions where jazz musicians play and chat with the audience (limited to 15 people per show).  I'm recommending them selectively, but check out the website for a full listing.  This evening's show features Jen Shyu, who melds mastery of Asian string instruments with that of Western musical instruments and forms — as well as a fully developed theatrical performance conception.  Needless to say, she's always worth seeing.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  As the great great cocktail bar Pegu Club has announced its closure — an event of near crisis proportions for Your Compiler, as you can imagine — this List edition's cocktail recommendations will be dedicated to that superb and immensely important bar.  Let's start with the classic cocktail (named for the Rangoon bar where it was invented) from which the place derived its name, the Pegu Club:  pour 2 oz. Gin, and 3/4 oz. each of Curacao and lime juice, with 1 dash each of Angostura and orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker.  Shake, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.