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Songbook Sundays
at
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club
hosted by Deborah Grace Winer
BABY, IT’S FRANK LOESSER
featuring
Emily Skinner, Matthew Scott,
Ekep Nkwelle
Sunday, January
21st, 5 PM & 7:30 PM
Songbook Sundays, created
and hosted by Deborah Grace Winer celebrating the American
Songbook will continue at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club with Baby,
It’s Frank Loesser on
Sunday, January
21st at 5
PM and 7:30 PM
Baby, It’s Frank Loesser kicks
off the new year as Jazz at Lincoln Center American Songbook
celebrates the legendary songs of Frank Loesser. This
Songbook Sundays swings Loesser’s classics from Guys
and Dolls and
legendary standards like Let’s
Get Lost, What
are You Doing New Year’s Eve, Somebody
Somewhere and
more.
Hosted and curated by leading American Songbook expert Deborah
Grace Winer,
the set features Tony Award nominee Emily
Skinner, Broadway’s Matthew
Scott,
with JALC rising star Ekep
Nkwelle.
Music director Joe
Davidian leads
a band of all-stars including Mark
Lewandowski on
bass (Wynton Marsalis, Mingus Big Band), Maria
Marmarou on
drums (Kurt Elling, Dizzy’s Club) and Daniel
Cohen on
saxophone (Juilliard).
With some breezy stories, it’s a swinging Dizzy’s toast to a
brand new year.
Ms. Winer said: “There’s
nothing better than knowing we can all jump into 2024
together, gathering with great music, cheer against the cold
outside, and artists and audiences toasting each other. Our
Dizzy’s Songbook Sundays has become just that warm place.”
One of New York’s most popular music destinations, Songbook
Sundays is
beginning its third year, after premiering spring 2022 with Got
Gershwin followed
by salutes to Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin,
Rodgers and Hart, Lerner and Loewe, Fats Waller, Jerome
Kern, Harold Arlen and Cy Coleman. It will continue with a
celebration of Rodgers and Hammerstein (April 21). All
shows are at 5pm and 7:30pm, and feature top vocal talent
from Broadway, cabaret and jazz, with a diverse mix of young
artists and veteran stars. Energy,
fun, great music—welcoming new Songbook
Sundays audiences from all over the world as well as a fresh
new offering for JALC’s
home audience.
In the spirit of swing, the mission of Jazz at Lincoln
Center is to entertain, enrich and expand the global
community for jazz through performance, education and
advocacy. Dizzy’s Club offers live jazz performances with
panoramic views of the Manhattan skyline and Central Park.
To reach Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club, enter at
Columbus Circle at 60th Street
and Broadway, take the Jazz elevators to the 5th floor
for Dizzy’s Club as well as The Rose Theater and The Appel
Room.
Tickets for Songbook
Sundays are
$45/55, with student tickets available at $25. There
is a $21 food/drink minimum.
**Both
performances will be live-streamed on JALC’s
JazzLive app; purchase on Dizzy's welbsite $9.99/month,
cancel anytime.** To purchase, visit: Jazz.org/dizzys
BIOS:
Deborah Grace Winer (Curator,
Host) is a leading expert on the classic American Songbook,
and writer and creator of theatrical revues and concerts. Along
with previous projects with Jazz at Lincoln Center,
collaborations include Feinstein’s/54 Below, Birdland, and a
decade as Artistic Director of the 92Y’s Lyrics &
Lyricists™ concert series, presiding over 50 original shows
and steering the venerable series back to audience and
critical acclaim. She
collaborates with top-tier artists from Broadway and the
music world, and works with leading institutions. Author
and dramatist, among her four books is On the Sunny Side of
the Street: The Life and Lyrics of Dorothy Fields (Macmillan),
recently named by the Wall Street Journal one of the Five
Best books on American Songwriters. Her articles have
appeared in The New York Times, and her plays, off-Broadway
and regionally. She has been featured on PBS American
Masters, and NPR’s “Fresh
Air” and “Morning
Edition.”
Emily Skinner (vocalist)
is a Tony award nominee who has garnered critical acclaim in
her many Broadway performances including Side Show, Billy
Elliot, Jekyll and Hyde, The Dead, The Full Monty, Prince of
Broadway, The Cher Show and Kander and Ebb's New York, New
York. She
has guested with The Boston Pops among many other
symphonies, plays concert and club engagements around the
country, and appears on myriad recordings.
Matthew Scott (vocalist)
Broadway credits include An
American in Paris, Sondheim
on Sondheim, A
Catered Affair and Jersey
Boys. Off-Broadway: Beaches, Company, ACand Side
By Side By Sondheim. Beyond
Broadway, Matthew has starred in First
You Dream: The Music of Kander and Ebb (Kennedy
Center) and in the national tour of An
American in Paris.
Ekep Nkwelle (vocalist)
is a JALC young artist whose appearances include Dizzy’s
Club, the Kennedy Center, DC Jazz Fest, Tri-C Jazz Fest, the
National Jazz Museum in Harlem and International Jazz Day. A
Cameroonian-American and graduate of Howard University, her
master’s degree in Jazz Voice from the Juilliard School.
Joe Davidian (Music
Director, Piano) jazz pianist and arranger, Davidian has
opened for Jane Monheit, Dianne Reeves and Danilo Perez and
backed a “who’s
who” of
jazz artists. He’s
appeared in numerous jazz festivals including Festival Miami
and Discover Jazz Festival, venues such as Birdland, and
tours nationally and internationally with his trio. He
has released three albums under his name.
Music/Cabaret Listings Info
SONGBOOK SUNDAYS, created
and hosted by Deborah Grace Winer celebrating the American
Songbook, continues on Sunday, January
21st at 5 &
7:30 PM with Baby,
It’s Frank Loesser at
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club,60th Street &
Broadway, NYC. The
all Frank
Loesser evening features Emily Skinner, Matthew Scott and
Ekep Nkwelle. Tickets
$45/55 and $25 for students. There is a $21 food/drink
minimum. Jazz.org/dizzys
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