By Marilyn Lester***For those who know pianist Tedd Firth mainly as a crackerjack accompanist/musical director/arranger to stars such as Melissa Errico, Karen Akers, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Christine Ebersole, Marilyn Maye and many others, there’s a […]
By Marilyn Lester***Fast-rising jazz star Anaïs Reno came home to Birdland to celebrate her debut CD, Lovesome Thing, the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, released during pandemic lockdown. As expected of this great […]
By Michael Barbieri***October 23rd, 2021. It’s a chilly, overcast autumn afternoon in NYC. Still, some of the best and brightest in the worlds of live music and cabaret turned out to present a free concert […]
By Marilyn Lester***Actress-commedienne-vocalist extraordinaire Klea Blackhurst is certifiably “one of the girls”—Jerry Herman’s girls, that is. Blackhurst earned the title playing Dolly Levi at Goodspeed Opera House during the 50th anniversary run of Hello, Dolly!—the […]
Historian, advocate/activist and communications guru George Calderaro is Director of Community Relations at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies. He’s also the Director of the new nonprofit, The Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project […]
By Marilyn Lester***The air was super-charged at Birdland Theater as violinist Marissa Licata presented Strings On Fire, with a program of eclectic work that dazzled. She wasn’t kidding, either, when she named her show. Licata’s […]
By Marilyn Lester***Two-time Tony Award® winner, Norbert Leo Butz, commanding the stage at Feinstein’s/54 Below, was downright mesmerizing. In Torch Songs for a Pandemic, Butz created an entertaining, fully-realized theatrical masterwork, even exceeding his last […]
By Marilyn Lester***Scott Siegel and company celebrated The 4th of July at Feinstein’s/54 Below with pure Americana—a Siegel version of Walt Whitman’s I Hear America Singing, with music from Broadway, Hollywood, Nashville, Motown, and more. […]
By Marilyn Lester***An Arts and Culture Trust Fund has been proposed by New Jersey Mayor Steven M. Fulop of Jersey City as a financially feasible way to ensure that the arts sector has the resources […]
By Marilyn Lester*** The First Virtual Mabel Mercer Foundation Cabaret Convention is now over. The final night, a resounding success, produced in association with Birdland Jazz, was live to tape from the club. KT Sullivan […]
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