Crooning troubadour and nouveau vaudevillian Bryce Edwards in The Frivolity Hour plays on Monday, January 22 at 7:00 PM at Birdland. He’ll be joined by Scott Ricketts on cornet, Ricky Alexander on clarinet and tenor saxophone, Conal Fowkes on piano, and Jay Rattman on baritone saxophone,
Just three months after his sold-out debut in the Birdland Theater, Edwards is thrilled to return to Birdland—his time, he’s coming upstairs – to the big room! Once more, Bryce will share his brand of hot traditional jazz and early 20th century popular music. He brings sensibility to songs made famous by great artists such as Cliff Edwards, Ted Lewis, Jack Teagarden, Rudy Vallée and Bing Crosby.
Edwards is a unique vocalist that takes equal cues from the crooners and soft singers of the late 1920s and early ‘30s and from the voices of the earlier, acoustic phonograph era; he’s also an instrumentalist who plays banjo, ukulele, tenor guitar and mandolin in the modernistic jazz idiom. Steeped in jazz age novelty, Edwards takes frivolity very seriously, and vows to entertain his audience or die trying!
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.
