The Incredible Flying Nonagenarian

On the third floor of the Montreal Chest Institute, at McGill University, Olga Kotelko stood before a treadmill in the center of a stuffy room that was filling up with people who had come just for her. They were there to run physical tests, or to extract blood from her earlobe, or just to observe and take notes. Kotelko removed her glasses. She wore white New Balance sneakers and black running tights, and over her silver hair, a plastic crown that held in place a breathing tube. Read more...

How Nicholas Winton helped save 669 Jewish kids from the Nazis

In 1938, Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish kids escape certain death from the Nazis. He never told anyone that he did this.

While on ski trip in Switzerland, Winton took a detour in Czechoslovakia to help the children of refugees. Nazi Germany had recently annexed a large part of Czechoslovakia and the news of Kristallnacht, a violent attack on Jews in Germany and Austria, had just reached Prague. 

Winton set up a rescue operation for the children, filling out the required paperwork for them to be sent to homes in Sweden and Great Britain. He had to raise money to fund foster homes for all of them, and then he sent 669 children away from Czechoslovakia on trains before the Nazis closed down the borders. 

Winton told no one that he did this, not even his wife. In 1988, his wife found a scrapbook full of pictures of the children and letters from parents in their attic. She arranged to have Winton's story appear in newspapers. 

Many of the children Winton saved went on the BBC television program, That's Life, to meet him for the first time since the war. They refer to themselves as "Winton's children". 

Winton is now 101 years old and has received awards from Israel and the Czech Republic as well as Knighthood from the Queen of England in 1993.

Jazz in the City Readies its Marketing Campaign in Jazziz

Jazz in the City will launch a vigorous year-long marketing campaign beginning in the December issue of Jazziz Magazine.

Publisher Michael Fagien, who runs one of the most widely read jazz magazines in the country, loved our concept and approached us about taking our concept nationwide. We're going a little further by taking it internationally.

Stay posted as we bring you more developments.

Jorge Calandrelli Wins Producer of the year at the 11th Annual Latin Grammy Awards

Jorge Calandrelli and Gregg Field

Award-winning arranger, Jorge Calandrelli, recently won a Latin Grammy as Best Producer of the Year for his work on Cuban trumpet master Arturo Sandoval's album A Time For Love. Read more...