Tag: Fred Astaire
Tommy Tune: Tommy Tune, Tonight!
He has the appealing charm to bring his music and life into an intimate cabaret.
Oct. 23 & 24: Jane Monheit, Jim Caruso, Billy Stritch
Jane Monheit, Jim Caruso, Billy Stritch Hollywoodland: Songs from the Silver Screen October 23 at 7:00 pm October 24 at 6:o0 & 8:30 pm Cabaret Jazz at The Smith Center 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas, NV 702.749.2000 Here’s Peter Haas’ review of this show when it played NYC: Many of the American Songbook’s most […]
Oleg Frish: Duets with My American Idols
Russian multi-media star Oleg Frish has combined his charm and warm, cheerful sound with ten of his American Idols.
Tony Bennett
May 2009 TONY BENNETT Like some cabaret hopefuls, a fellow originally named Anthony Dominick Benedetto began as a singing waiter in New York, earning $15 per week. Many nightclubs, concert halls, scores of records and over a dozen Grammy Awards later, Tony Bennett’s still going strong, starting May at the New Orleans Jazz Festival and […]
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 […]
Irving Berlin
November 2008 IRVING BERLIN If there ever was a person in the world of popular music who exemplified the American dream, it was Irving Berlin. Arriving on American shores with his Russian immigrant parents when he was four years old, and forced by the time he was ten years old to sell newspapers to help […]
Dec. 8: Susan Winter: A Woman for All Seasons
Susan Winter is an unaffected professional. She sings as if from a place of truthful observation, making lyrics seem personal.
Jim Caruso, Jane Monheit, Billy Stritch: Hollywoodland: Songs from the Silver Screen
Many of the American Songbook’s most beloved songs were created for the movies.
