Songbook Sundays, hosted by Deborah Grace Winer, celebrating the American Songbook, will continue at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club with Can’t Help Lovin’ Jerome Kern on Sunday, August 13 at 5 PM and 7:30 P.M .
La Tanya Hall, Margo Seibert, Robbie Lee and Billy Stritch sing the tunes of American popular song’s great melodic composer, Jerome Kern, with classics including “I Won’t Dance,” “Long Ago and Far Away,” “I’m Old Fashioned,” “Pick Yourself Up,” “Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man” and more. Music director Stritch also leads a band of all-stars including Mark McLean on drums, Neal Miner on bass and Aaron Heck on saxophone.
Songbook Sundays is in its second year, after premiering in Spring 2022 with Got Gershwin, followed by salutes to Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, Lerner and Loewe and Fats Waller. It will continue with a celebration of Harold Arlen (October 1).
Tickets are $30/40, with student tickets available at $25. There is a $21 food/drink minimum. Both performances will be live-streamed on JALC’s JazzLive app. To purchase, visit: Jazz.org/dizzys
To reach Jazz at Lincoln Center, enter at Columbus Circle at 60th Street and Broadway, take the Jazz elevators to the 5th floor for Dizzy’s Club
