Tag: Blues in the Night

Pompie’s Place: Hilary Gardner, Lezlie Harrison, Brianna Thomas

| April 24, 2015 | 0 Comments
Pompie’s Place: Hilary Gardner,  Lezlie Harrison, Brianna Thomas

Pompie sings the blues at Pompie’s Place, evoking an intimate club space, sometime in the 1920s and ’30s, where a hot quintet and a couple of songbirds take the stage and sing the blues.

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Johnny Mercer

| April 23, 2015 | 0 Comments
Johnny Mercer

May 2009 JOHNNY MERCER Prolific and terrific, warm or witty, Johnny Mercer was, to employ one of his song titles, just “Too Marvelous for Words.” That 1937 song had music by Richard Whiting, father of Mercer protegee and friend and another of our Hall of Fame-rs, singer Margaret Whiting, now President of the music education-focused […]

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Over the Rainbow: The Songs of Harold Arlen

| March 17, 2015 | 0 Comments
Over the Rainbow: The Songs of Harold Arlen

Harold Arlen was one of the most prolific of the Great American Songbook writers.

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Ann Hampton Callaway: Turning Points

| November 25, 2014 | 0 Comments
Ann Hampton Callaway: Turning Points

The show allows her to show off her multiple talents as songwriter, actress, comedienne and, most remarkably, the wonderful instrument that is her voice.

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