Birdland Jazz Club presents the return of crooning troubadour and nouveau vaudevillian Bryce Edwards in The Frivolity Hour on Monday, February 24 at 7:00 PM. After several sold-out shows, the venue welcomes him back for an encore performance by popular demand.
Once more, Edwards will share his original brand of hot traditional jazz and early 20th century popular music, playing all the lush serenades and delightful novelties you never knew you wanted to hear, reveling in the sounds both hot and sweet that made the twenties roar. With Edwards is a team of jazzmen: Scott Ricketts on cornet, Ricky Alexander on clarinet and alto saxophone, Conal Fowkes on piano, and Jay Rattman on bass saxophone,
Edwards is also an instrumentalist who plays banjo, ukulele, tenor guitar,and mandolin in the modernistic jazz idiom. He channels his passion into reviving some of that long lost intangible quality of the Jazz Age and igniting interest in an all too often overlooked era of music that, despite being a century old, still bubbles with humor, beauty, and often a defiant youthful energy.
As a sideman, he appears with various traditional jazz bands such as Drew Nugent and the Midnight Society, Buck and a Quarter and the Rivertown Vintage Jazz Band. He has appeared with Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, and is a fan favorite at Jim Caruso’s “Cast Party.” Edwards writes and records original music and lyrics for the serialized radio dramas “The Town with No Name” and “The Forgotten.” He also provides and performs original songs for Ayun Halliday’s hit variety show, “Necromancers of the Public Domain.”
There is a $35 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.
