Most of those intimately familiar with Billy Strayhorn's "Take the A' Train" are still unaware that the jazz classic's full title is "Take the A' Train After Seeing Modest Mouse." Harlem's United Palace Theatre is an excellent, slightly oddball, profoundly large venue, an old movie theater recast as a cavernous shed for indie-arena big shots like Modest Mouse or the Arcade Fire. Let's just say that the vast majority of the crowd is imported. Thus, immediately afterward, a full-scale American... More »
