Award-winning vocalist Ben Jones and pianist, composer, music director Ron Abel celebrate Frank Sinatra in Let Me Be Frank on Monday, December 4 at 7:00 PM at Birdland Jazz Club.
The show includes swinging Sinatra standards and lush from the songbooks of Cy Coleman, Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter and Sammy Cahn, confronting “Frank truths” about marriage, family and a life in the entertainment industry.
Jones is a singer, comedian, storyteller and actor who has appeared in front of audiences worldwide. He’s shared the spotlight with the likes of Rita Moreno, Michael Tilson Thomas, Frederica von Stade, Nathan Gunn, Isabel Leonard, Helmuth Rilling, Michael Morgan, Val Diamond and the Bang on a Can All-Stars. His voice has been featured on recordings on the Albany, Naxos and Delos labels, on “A Prairie Home Companion,” on the soundtracks for the best-selling video game franchises Halo and Civilization, and on commercials for Coors Light and Meow Mix. He was most recently seen as Sid Sorokin in The Pajama Game in San Francisco, for which he received the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for “Best Performance in a Musical.”
There is a $30-40 music charge and a $20 food and beverage minimum. For reservations, please call (212) 581-3080 or visit www.BirdlandJazz.com.
Birdland is located at 315 West 44th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues) in Manhattan.
