Terry Waldos Gotham City Band

Terry Waldo is an American pianist, composer, and historian of early jazz, blues, and stride music, and is best known for his contribution to ragtime and his role in reviving interest in this form, starting in the 1970s.

Terry Waldo’s Gotham City Band is a New York City jazz group heard in the close quarters of Arthur’s Tavern, where the room’s history and acoustics shape the set as much as the charts do. Led by pianist Terry Waldo, the band works in jazz with a free-leaning edge, moving between arranged passages and open improvisation.