[Dixielandjazz] NYC Highlights in Jazz Events

Steve barbone barbonestreet at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 16 12:56:38 PST 2005


Wow: Two great shows for you New Yorkers. Eat your hearts out, left
coasters:-) VBG

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


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.

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 Mungo² using
baseball player's names for the lyric. Dave has recorded for Concord and
Arbor¹s 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.


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. 




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