Our Critics' Jazz Picks for Spring

The Best Events For March 19–June 10by Stranger Things To Do StaffMarch 19 & April 21Pink MartiniI will always love Pink Martini for its exceptionally beautiful cover of the "Song of the Black Lizard," the lead track for the campy late-'60s Japanese film Black Lizard. If you have not heard of the band, which was founded in Portland, Oregon, by the pianist Thomas Lauderdale in the mid-'90s, I recommend you enter its world by this door—this sensuous tune. Pink Martini's world is tr