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Trevor Ashley: “Queen of the Moment”
At the risk of being asked to turn in my “gay card,” I must confess that I do not follow Drag Race or any of its offspring. I occasionally catch...
Jason Henderson: “Getting to Noël You”
One of the deprivations of growing up in New Hampshire was that I was never exposed to more sophisticated entertainments in general, and Sir Noël Coward in particular. It was...
CD Review: Hannah Gill’s “Everybody Loves a Lover”
Sometimes it’s a simple, refreshing delight when a singer records an album that is not out to re-invent the wheel but to honor the great legacy of American pop and...
Club Review: Tony Yazbeck
To translate the energy, the heart, the style, the artistry and the power of a Broadway star performance into the intimate surroundings of a cabaret (even as large and stylishly...
Jason Danieley’s “Without a Song”
In 1972, director Bernardo Bertolucci released his controversial erotic drama, Last Tango in Paris which received an X rating for its explicit sex scenes between Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider....
Meg Flather’s “Hammerstein & Sondheim— Carefully Taught”
It seems that since the passing of iconic Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, not a week has gone by without some new revue, or tribute, or memorial in his honor. Of...
Maud Hixson’s “Permanent Moonlight—Songs of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett”
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett was a man of many sides—a renowned composer of opera, film scores, jazz and pop, a lyricist of wit and depth, a cook, a mean scrabble...
Chloé Jean’s “Fairy Tale Fail”
Sometimes when you listen to a new recording, in the first seconds you are captivated by a fresh sound, personal delivery, perfect instrumentation and immaculate production; you just sit back,...
Wilma Baan’s “Look at Me Now!”
A few years ago, when the world in general and the cabaret world in particular were ravaged by quarantines and lockdowns, BistroAwards.com began to review related CDs and recordings (and...
Emilie-Claire Barlow
It is hard to believe that it took Canadian jazz singer, Emilie-Claire Barlow until 2023 to make her debut in NYC. She has long been recognized as one of her...