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“HIGHLIGHTS IN JAZZ" PRESENTS Thursday, April 14, 2005 8PM
Jazz Singers / Songwriters
Blossom Dearie, Dave Frishberg Special Guests The Young Hoofers
March 16, 2005 Jack Kleinsinger's “Highlights in Jazz," New York's longest running jazz series is pleased to present Blossom Dearie, Dave Frishberg and Special Guests The Young Hoofers.
Blossom Dearie (b. 28 April 1928 East Durham, New York) is a singer, pianist and songwriter, with a “wispy, little-girlish" voice, and is regarded as one of the great supper club singers. She began her career in the 1940s with early influences by Art Tatum, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Martha Tilton, who sang with the Benny Goodman band. After stints with the Blue Flames, a vocal group within the Woody Herman big band, and the Blue Reys, a similar formation in the Alvino Rey band she sang at the legendary Chantilly Club in Greenwich Village where she met Nicole Barclay who owned Barclay Records. She had a hit in France and the USA with one of their first recordings, a French version of “Lullaby Of Birdland". While in Paris, Dearie met impresario and record producer Norman Granz, who signed her to Verve Records, for whom she eventually made six solo albums, including the highly regarded My Gentleman Friend. Her solo career included appearances on US television with Jack Paar, Merv Griffin and Johnny Carson. In the 1970s she started her own company, Daffodil Records. In 1981 Blossom aand Dave Frishberg appeared for three weeks at Michael's Pub in Manhattan.
New York Times critic Stephen Holden had this to say about Blossom Dearie. “Ms. Dearie has impeccable taste in material and is no slouch as a songwriter either." “No cabaret performer illustrates the concept that less can be more as satisfyingly as Blossom Dearie."
Dave Frishberg, arguably the top living lyricist, is the composer of the witty classics, “Peel Me A Grape", “I'm Hip" and “My Attorney Bernie". The multi-talented Frishberg moved to New York in 1957 where he worked as a pianist with Carmen McRae, Kai Winding, Gene Krupa (1960-1963), Wild Bill Davison, Bud Freeman, Ben Webster, the Al Cohn-Zoot Sims Quintet, and Bobby Hackett. In 1968 he scored a surprise hit with “Van Lingle Mungo” using baseball player's names for the lyric. Dave has recorded for Concord and Arbor’s Records.
Special guests The Young Hoofers, were created through sweat, ambition, and soul by Traci Mann, a woman who studied under the great dance masters, Buster Brown and Chuck Green. The Young Hoofers, range in age from six to twenty years old, and are a fantastic group of young rhythm tappers who hail from Brooklyn, NY. They tap and stomp with great force, (Think “Bring In Da Noise/Funk": The Next Generation).
There will be a special surprise guest on this show.
This concert will take place at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (Borough of Manhattan Community College), 199 Chambers Street (between Greenwich and West Street). The tickets are $27.50, $25.00 for students. They can be purchased at the theater box office or by calling (212) 220-1460.Mail Order to Highlights In Jazz 7 Peter Cooper Sq. NY, NY 10010 enclose self-addressed envelope.
Media Contacts: Jim Eigo Jazz Promo Services 845.986.1677 / [email protected] & Harriet Wasser [email protected]
Highlights In Jazz 2005 Schedule Thirty-Second Season
Thursday, May 12, 2005 8PM
Keepers of the Flame
Dick Hyman Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks Marcus Belgrave Salute To Doc Cheatham With Randy Sandke, Theodore Cheatham Croker, Chuck Folds and others Special Guest Peter Cincotti
There will be a special surprise guest on each show.
All concerts will take place at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (Borough of Manhattan Community College), 199 Chambers Street (between Greenwich and West Street). The tickets are $27.50, $25.00 for students. They can be purchased at the theater box office or by calling (212) 220-1460.Mail Order to Highlights In Jazz 7 Peter Cooper Sq. NY, NY 10010 enclose self-addressed envelope. Media Contacts: Jim Eigo Jazz Promo Services 845.986.1677 / [email protected] & Harriet Wasser [email protected]
“HIGHLIGHTS IN JAZZ" PRESENTS Thursday, April 14, 2005 8PM
Jazz Singers / Songwriters
Blossom Dearie, Dave Frishberg Special Guests The Young Hoofers
March 16, 2005 Jack Kleinsinger's “Highlights in Jazz," New York's longest running jazz series is pleased to present Blossom Dearie, Dave Frishberg and Special Guests The Young Hoofers.
Blossom Dearie (b. 28 April 1928 East Durham, New York) is a singer, pianist and songwriter, with a “wispy, little-girlish" voice, and is regarded as one of the great supper club singers. She began her career in the 1940s with early influences by Art Tatum, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Martha Tilton, who sang with the Benny Goodman band. After stints with the Blue Flames, a vocal group within the Woody Herman big band, and the Blue Reys, a similar formation in the Alvino Rey band she sang at the legendary Chantilly Club in Greenwich Village where she met Nicole Barclay who owned Barclay Records. She had a hit in France and the USA with one of their first recordings, a French version of “Lullaby Of Birdland". While in Paris, Dearie met impresario and record producer Norman Granz, who signed her to Verve Records, for whom she eventually made six solo albums, including the highly regarded My Gentleman Friend. Her solo career included appearances on US television with Jack Paar, Merv Griffin and Johnny Carson. In the 1970s she started her own company, Daffodil Records. In 1981 Blossom aand Dave Frishberg appeared for three weeks at Michael's Pub in Manhattan.
New York Times critic Stephen Holden had this to say about Blossom Dearie. “Ms. Dearie has impeccable taste in material and is no slouch as a songwriter either." “No cabaret performer illustrates the concept that less can be more as satisfyingly as Blossom Dearie."
Dave Frishberg, arguably the top living lyricist, is the composer of the witty classics, “Peel Me A Grape", “I'm Hip" and “My Attorney Bernie". The multi-talented Frishberg moved to New York in 1957 where he worked as a pianist with Carmen McRae, Kai Winding, Gene Krupa (1960-1963), Wild Bill Davison, Bud Freeman, Ben Webster, the Al Cohn-Zoot Sims Quintet, and Bobby Hackett. In 1968 he scored a surprise hit with “Van Lingle Mungo” using baseball player's names for the lyric. Dave has recorded for Concord and Arbor’s Records.
Special guests The Young Hoofers, were created through sweat, ambition, and soul by Traci Mann, a woman who studied under the great dance masters, Buster Brown and Chuck Green. The Young Hoofers, range in age from six to twenty years old, and are a fantastic group of young rhythm tappers who hail from Brooklyn, NY. They tap and stomp with great force, (Think “Bring In Da Noise/Funk": The Next Generation).
There will be a special surprise guest on this show.
This concert will take place at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (Borough of Manhattan Community College), 199 Chambers Street (between Greenwich and West Street). The tickets are $27.50, $25.00 for students. They can be purchased at the theater box office or by calling (212) 220-1460.Mail Order to Highlights In Jazz 7 Peter Cooper Sq. NY, NY 10010 enclose self-addressed envelope.
Media Contacts: Jim Eigo Jazz Promo Services 845.986.1677 / [email protected] & Harriet Wasser [email protected]
Highlights In Jazz 2005 Schedule Thirty-Second Season
Thursday, May 12, 2005 8PM
Keepers of the Flame
Dick Hyman Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks Marcus Belgrave Salute To Doc Cheatham With Randy Sandke, Theodore Cheatham Croker, Chuck Folds and others Special Guest Peter Cincotti
There will be a special surprise guest on each show.
All concerts will take place at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (Borough of Manhattan Community College), 199 Chambers Street (between Greenwich and West Street). The tickets are $27.50, $25.00 for students. They can be purchased at the theater box office or by calling (212) 220-1460.Mail Order to Highlights In Jazz 7 Peter Cooper Sq. NY, NY 10010 enclose self-addressed envelope. Media Contacts: Jim Eigo Jazz Promo Services 845.986.1677 / [email protected] & Harriet Wasser [email protected]
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