The crooning troubadour and nouveau vaudevillian Bryce Edwards brings back The Frivolity Hour on Monday, September 9 at 7:00 PM at Birdland. Edwards leads a hot combo featuring jazzmen Scott Ricketts on cornet, Ricky Alexander on clarinet and tenor saxophone, Conal Fowkes on piano and Jay Rattman on baritone saxophone. Steeped in jazz age novelty, Edwards takes frivolity very seriously, and vows to entertain his audience or die trying.
Edwards, who revels in the sounds both hot and sweet that made the twenties roar, will share his brand of hot traditional jazz and early 20th century popular music. He’s a unique vocalist who takes equal cues from the crooners and soft singers of the late 1920s and early ‘30s as well as from the bombastic voices of the earlier, acoustic phonograph era. He brings his singular verve and sensibility to songs made famous by great artists such as Cliff Edwards, Ted Lewis, Jack Teagarden, Rudy Vallé, and Bing Crosby. Edwards is also an instrumentalist who plays banjo, ukulele, tenor guitar and mandolin in the modernistic jazz idiom.
There is a $30 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.
