“Raissa Recommends” is my blog containing metaphysical musings and where I suggest some of the best performers and shows in the New York City area, as well as my favorite websites.
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Dawn Derow The House That Built Me
Laurie Beechman Theatre, West 42nd Street, New York, NY, United States“A Father’s Musical Influence inspired a daughter’s songbook”. My father’s vinyl collection blossomed into a cabaret vision. Songs I grew up listening to and others that tell the story of my childhood – and how I became the singer and performer I am today. – Dawn Derow
Ann Hampton Callaway Jazz Goes To The Movies
254 W 54th St, New York, NY 10019ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY: JAZZ GOES TO THE MOVIES
JUNE 25 – 29, 2019
Tony-nominated, Platinum Award-winning singer-songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway‘s Jazz Goes To The Movies, her requiste new album, which debuted as #12 on the Billboard Jazz Chart, comes to Feinstein’s/54 Below this June in a BRAND NEW SHOW!
There are precious few vocalists whose artistry flourishes in both the worlds of popular song and jazz, as each world has its own special demands and challenges. Like Sarah Vaughan, Diane Reeves, and Mel Torme, Tony-nominated, Theater World Award-winning singer-songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway manages this feat seemingly effortless, delivering vocal tour-de-forces marked by refined beauty, subtlety, grandeur, profound musicality and passion. Having done critically-acclaimed tributes to the likes of Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, written hits for Barbra Streisand, released albums of original songs, and through her performances and recordings helped keep the Great American Songbook alive and vital, Ann decided for her fourteenth album to fulfill a long-time dream, a recording of great songs from classic motion pictures. Recently Shanachie Entertainment released Ann Hampton Callaway’s Jazz Goes To The Movies a magnificent collection of sublime interpretations of great songs featured in beloved Hollywood films.
The companion show to the CD, explores the fascinating ways jazz and film have come together to tell stories.The playlist includes “Taking a Chance on Love” from Vernon Duke’s Cabin in the Sky, “Let’s Face the Music and Dance” from Irving Berlin’s Follow the Fleet, “This Time the Dream’s on Me” from Harold Arlen’s Blues in the Night, and “As Time Goes By,” the Herman Hupfeld classic from Casablanca. Callaway also performs jazz songs she has recorded for films, including “Come Rain or Come Shine” from The Good Shepherd, starring Robert DeNiro, “The Nearness of You” from Last Holiday starring Queen Latifah, and “Pourquoi,” a song she wrote for the new film Blind, starring Alec Baldwin and Demi Moore.
Bill Zeffiro at La Rivista
313 W 46th St, New York, NY 10036BILL ZEFFIRO Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays, 8pm – Midnight
WITH MARISSA MULDERMondays & Fridays, 9pm – MidnightZeff is a pianist, composer, teacher & fabled saloon singer, a 7-time winner of the Manhattan Association of Cabaret (MAC) Awards and a 4-time MAC recipient for Piano Bar/ Singing Instrumentalist. He has appeared at the Café Carlyle, Town Hall, The Oak Room, Lincoln Center, 54 Below, the Metropolitan Room and many others. Bill’s CD “Better Than Nothing” (check out the review at the link), a collection of his original songs, is available on Amazon.com as well as I-Tunes. Visit billzeffiro.com for more.Bill welcomes
MARISSA MULDER
Monday & Friday nights!TimeOut NY’s 2013 “Rising Star of The Year,” Marissa Mulder is a winner of the Noel Coward Award, the Julie Wilson Award, and the 2014 MAC award for Major Artist and Album Of The Year. Marissa has appeared at the Café Carlyle, Lincoln Center, Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, The Algonquin, 54 Below, Joe’s pub, Birdland, The Metropolitan Room and others. Her CDS, “Two Tickets Left”, “Tom…In His Words” and “Illusions,” are available on Amazon.com, as well as T-tunes, Cdbaby.com. Visit marissalmulder.comfor more.