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Songbook Sundays
at
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club
hosted by Deborah Grace Winer
A LITTLE BIT OF LERNER AND LOEWE
featuring
Christiane Noll, Matthew Scott, Ekep Nkwelle
Sunday, March 26th 5 PM & 7:30 PM
with ‘live streaming’ options
(NEW YORK, NY: Tuesday, March 15, 2023) Songbook
Sundays, created
and hosted by Deborah Grace Winer celebrating the American
Songbook will continue at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s
with A
LITTLE BIT OF LERNER AND LOEWE on
Sunday, March
26th at 5
PM and 7:30 PM at Dizzy’s Club.
A Little Bit of Lerner and Loewe swings
the legendary songs of Alan
Jay Lerner and Frederick
Loewe as
Jazz at Lincoln Center American Songbook celebrates the
first week of spring at Dizzy’s Club. This
Songbook Sundays jam party heats up the legendary tunes with
a fresh jazz take on such hits as My
Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Camelot, Gigi and Paint
Your Wagon.
Hosted and curated by leading American Songbook expert Deborah
Grace Winer, the set features Lerner and Loewe’s
greatest songs—from The
Street Where You Live and I
Could Have Danced All Night to If
Ever I Would Leave You and Almost
Like Being in Love. Performers include, Tony Award
nominee Christiane
Noll, Broadway’s stellar Matthew
Scott and
young JALC artist Ekep
Nkwelle.
Music director Tedd
Firth leads
an inter-generational band of jazz stars including Endea
Owens on
bass (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert), Bryan
Carter on
drums (Wynton Marsalis, Clark Terry), and JALC young artist Summer
Camargo on
trumpet (Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton
Marsalis).
Add in some breezy stories and it’s a champagne-fizzy,
celebration Sunday night at Dizzy’s that, ah yes, you’ll
remember well.
Ms. Winer said: “The
joy of our new Songbook Sundays becoming so popular is that
we’ve created a community here to come together at Dizzy’s
—musicians, vocalists and audiences—and revel in great
music, harmony that goodness knows is not seen in the
outside world…and just have fun and restore ourselves
celebrating the joy in life.”
‘Songbook Sundays’ recently began its second year, after
premiering last spring with “Got Gershwin” followed by
salutes to Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin and
Rodgers and Hart. It will continue with a celebration of
Fats Waller (June 11). 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 Frederick P. Rose Hall,
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
$30/40, 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 website $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.”
Christiane Noll (vocalist)
is a Tony award nominee, with Broadway performances
including Jekyll
& Hyde, Ragtime, Urinetown and
most recently, Dear
Evan Hansen (for
which she also appeared in the first National company). She
appeared in TV’s The
Sound of Music Live! and
numerous Off-Broadway and regional productions, including The
Merry Widow at
the Kennedy Center. Symphony
and club appearances include the New York Pops, the National
Symphony with Marvin Hamlisch and countless others across
the country and internationally.
Matthew Scott (vocalist)
Broadway credits include An
American in Paris, Sondheim
on Sondheim, A
Catered Affair and Jersey
Boys. Off-Broadway: Beaches, Company, AC and 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, she
is about to complete her master’s degree in Jazz Voice from
the Juilliard School.
Tedd Firth (music
director) is a New York City based musical director, pianist
and arranger. His New York appearances include Carnegie
Hall, Lincoln Center, the Blue Note, Birdland, the Iridium,
the Algonquin, the Cafe Carlyle and Feinstein's at the
Regency. Numerous national appearances include a performance
at the White House as well as serving as musical director
for Michael Feinstein's “Jazz and Popular Song” concert
series at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Music/Cabaret Listings Info
SONGBOOK SUNDAYS, created
and hosted by Deborah Grace Winer celebrating the American
Songbook, continues on Sunday, March
26th at 5 &
7:30 PM with A
Little Bit of Lerner and Loewe at
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club, 60th
Street & Broadway, NYC. The
all Lerner
and Loewe evening features Christiane Noll, Matthew Scott
and Ekep Nkwelle. Tickets
$30/40 and $25 for students. There is a $21 food/drink
minimum. Jazz.org/dizzys
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