The New York Post  - 1991-1994

New York Post September 2, 1994 By Chip Deffaa

"As anyone who's caught one of his several hundred appearances on Joe Franklin's television show will know, Mark Birnbaum (who has a Ph.D. from Columbia) is the ragtime piano specialist. He not only knows all of the classical rags by Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton - he can take any song you name (from "Sh-Boom" to "Amazing Grace") and convert it to ragtime."

New York Post May 14, 1993 By Chip Deffaa

JAZZ - Yardbird Suite: For the first weekend at this intimate club, Detroit