By Marilyn Lester***Vocalist Karen Mack got deeply into her jazz roots, performing in the coveted Monday night slot at Birdland—just before Cast Party. Well-known in the cabaret community (who packed the house to the rafters), […]
By Marilyn Lester***Decades ago, he was dubbed “The Crown Prince of Cabaret;” it’s about time we promoted Steve Ross to “King of Cabaret.” The singer-pianist has astounded for decades, and more recently, with the grace […]
By Marilyn Lester***San Francisco Bay Area crooner Jonathan Poretz delivered on his promise in his show Totally Tony: Keepin’ The Music Playin’ at 54 Below. The evening was chock-full of music and remembrance all about […]
By Andrew Poretz***Jazz vocalist Lucy Wijnands played the first of two Birdland Theater gigs, accompanied only by her father, pianist Bram Wijnands. (You can catch the secondo set of the duo at Birdland on Tuesday, […]
By Bart Greenberg***Sometimes the backstory for a cabaret show is just as fascinating as the show itself. This was definitely true of Jeff Harnar’s glowing salute to one of our most adept lyricists in Sammy […]
By Bart Greenberg***For the first time in nearly a decade, The Iridium, a club that usually offers up a mix of jazz, rock and blues, offered up a genuine Broadway star—Tovah Feldshuh— and her finely-constructed […]
By Marilyn Lester***When chaos swirls in the outside world, it’s a definite boon to have solace in the arts—and not the least of these is the dependable, very long-running Jamie deRoy & friends, which recently […]
By Maryann Lopinto***The Cutting Room was packed for the American Popular Song Society‘s 3rd annual benefit/gala in which the award-winning songwriting team of Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire received the Lifetime Achievement Award. After […]
By Marilyn Lester***It’s been a while since actor-singer extraordinaire Norm Lewis has appeared at 54 Below, and in recent years those turns have been around the Christmas/Holiday season. So with this triumphant return, aptly named […]
By Marilyn Lester***The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (JALCO) has long embraced world music via community building and cultural exchange. But in this instance, the question on the table was could the […]
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