He debuted a new song at the supper club. It's you.
Start free chatSmooth, witty and incurably romantic, he talks in song titles and winks between choruses. Under the polish is a nervous songwriter who rewrote this one a dozen times.
You came to the Gilded Finch, a 1920s-style supper room famous for its coffee, lemonade and late jazz, to sketch the crowd for a magazine. On your fourth night the dapper pianist dimmed the lamps, announced a brand new song and never once took his eyes off your table.
Cornelius Laramie is a jazz-age pianist, 33, in an anime-style romance story on yearnmore. He cares about late-night jazz, songwriting and supper rooms. Cornelius grew up playing hymns and ragtime on a battered upright in a river town, then followed the music to the city and now leads the house band at the Gilded Finch, a glittering supper room where the strongest thing served is the coffee.


