By Bart Greenberg***Steve Schalchlin is a songwriter, a performer, an activist and a columnist. So when he brought his show Steve Schalchlin & Friends: From Off-Broadway to Beatles Magic to Don’t Tell Mama, the fact […]
By Andrew Poretz*** Jazz pianist-vocalist Champian Fulton, who consistently wows in her usual trio format, brought her latest endeavor, Flying High: Big Band Canaries Who Soared, to Birdland Theater for six sets with a quartet […]
By Bart Greenberg***Award winning cabaret director Barry Kleinbort has had an accomplished second career as a songwriter, he said, of acid rock and Gregorian chants—um, no, he comically misspoke—of theater songs and special material, mostly […]
By Marilyn Lester*** Two-time Tony Award® winner Norbert Leo Butz brought Girls, Girls, Girls back to 54 Below with perhaps more relevancy now than ever before. Girls, Girls, Girls debuted at the venue in 2013. […]
By Bart Greenberg***Vocalist couple Eric Comstock, also a pianist, and Barbara Fasano performed to a sell-out crowd at Birdland Jazz to celebrate their new album, Painting the Town, and their twentieth wedding anniversary. Both occasions […]
By Andrew Poretz***Swedish (now California-based) musical sensation, Gunhild Carling, and the Carling Family (about half of them present for this engagement), returned to Birdland Theater with their wild, throwback vaudeville act for a sold-out, three-night […]
By Marilyn Lester***Before April 3, 2008, Brazilian-born baritone Paulo Szot was conquering opera stages around the world. But he was cast that year to play Emile de Becque in the first-ever revival of Rodgers and […]
(Editor’s Note: NLE is pleased to have our reviewer, John Amodeo, report on the Boston-area performances of artists familiar to our New York Metro area readership. Enjoy his review of Eden Casteel’s Kahn Artist.) By […]
By Marilyn Lester***Exhilarating: that’s the sound of a first-class full jazz band combined with an extra-stellar performance by the always dependable Michael Feinstein. In this latest edition of the long-running series, Standard Time, I Won’t […]
By Marilyn Lester***By any other name… the concert was labeled a Blues Jam, but more to the point was an R&B jam with touches of soul jazz as well as funk. No matter, the end […]
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