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Club Review: Ann Talman’s “The Shadow of Her Smile”
Unique is the best word—maybe the only word—to describe the song-stacked narrative that Ann Talman has created for her cabaret act at Feinstein’s/54Below. She calls the show The Shadow of Her Smile, after...
Club Review: “To Steve with Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim”
Ever feel like you’re Sondheimed-out? Perhaps, but if it’s Liz Callaway singing the late great master’s songs, as she did recently at Feinstein’s/54 Below in her newest show, To Steve...
Club Review: Klea Blackhurst’s “One of the Girls—The Words and Music of Jerry Herman”
Klea Blackhurst is one of those rare songbirds who can build a show out of intelligent patter and amusing anecdotes. Her act, which she brought to Birdland Feb. 21, is...
The John Pizzarelli Quintet: “Tribute to George Shearing”
John Pizzarelli's weapon of choice is his guitar, and the two have traveled down too many musical roads to list. As I entered Birdland the other night to hear a...