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Songbook
Sundays
at
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Dizzy’s Club
hosted by
Deborah Grace Winer
NOTHIN’ BUT
DUKE ELLINGTON
featuring
Aisha De Haas, Darius De
Haas, Anaïs Reno
Sunday, August
18th, 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
Nothin’ But
Duke Ellington on
Sunday, August
18 at 5:00 p.m. and
7:30 p.m.
Nothin’ But
Duke Ellington is
Jazz at Lincoln Center American Songbook’s high summer
celebration of Jazz’s greatest icon. This
Songbook Sundays swings Ellington’s greatest songs, like Sophisticated
Lady and I’m
Beginning to See the Light,
to Prelude
to a Kiss, I
Got it Bad and That Ain’t Good, Come
Sunday,
and more.
Hosted and
curated by leading American Songbook expert Deborah
Grace Winer,
the set features jazz and Broadway greats, siblings Aisha
de Haas and Darius
de Haas,
with JALC rising star Anaïs
Reno.
Music Director Richard
Cummings leads
a band
of all-stars including Damon
DueWhite on
drums (Branford Marsalis, Hugh Masakela), Kenny
Davis on
bass (Art Farmer, Geri Allen) and Ed
Jackson on
Alto Saxophone and flute (Count Basie Band, Illinois Jacquet)
With some breezy stories,
it’s a sizzling August jam party.
Ms. Winer
said: “Dizzy’s Songbook
Sundays is
a place where audience and performers can have a blast being
in each other’s company—a welcoming, fun community that’s a
safe respite from the wild world outside. We’re
so grateful Songbook
Sundays has
taken off, and that every other month, we can celebrate
great music and great performances together."
One of New
York’s most popular music destinations, Songbook
Sundays is
in 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, Cy Coleman, Frank Loesser, Rodgers &
Hammerstein and Johnny Mercer. It will continue with a
celebration of Hoagy Carmichael (October 13th). 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
$60/55, with student tickets available at $25. There
is a $21 food/drink minimum.
To
purchase, visit: Jazz.org/dizzys
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