David Alpern, JazzVoice.org member and former host of For Your Ears Only (previously Newsweek On Air) has been interviewing vocalists for many years. He wanted to share additional favorites with us!
MORE CABARET CONNECTIONS + STAGE & SCREEN
WEIMAR CREATES KABARETT
-- MARK NADLER, singer/pianist, on songs of outsiders, "I'm a Stranger Here Myself," 54 Below, NYC -- at 35:12
--KAREN KOHLER, singer/teacher/writer, on "Vienna to Weimar" with KT Sullivan, Stage 72, NYC -- at 35:10
-0-
MABEL MERCER, the cabaret legend and her legacy, as continued by singer/actress KT SULLIVAN, new artistic director of the Mabel Merer Foundation --at 27:27
-0-
CARLY SIMON, singer/songwriter, on Boomer Music -- at :24
-0-
ERIC COMSTOCK, singer/pianist/music historian
-- on reviving the "Our Sinatra" tribute at Feinstein's/Loews Regency, NYC -- at 43:00
-- with BARBARA FASANO, on their music, marriage, and show at The Metropolitan Room, NYC, "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes,” The Metropolitan Room NYC, 35:22
-- on “Rat Pack Poet: Celebrating Sammy Cahn on his 100th Birthday," with BARBARA FASANO and JEFF HARNAR, the Triad, NYC -- at 35:36
-0-
JEFF HARNAR, cabaret performer and director, on celebrating Rodgers & Hart at the 24th New York Cabaret Convention, and 30th anniversary show with pianist Alex Rybeck at Birdland, NYC -- at 35:09
-0-
DONNA MURPHY, double Tony Award actress/singer, on the challenge of pain in Stephen Sondheim's "Passion" on Broadway -- at 34:45
-0-
JOHNNY CASH, iconic singer/songwriter honored in the Country Music, Rock and Roll, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame
-- country music singer/songwriter ROSEANNE CASH, his daughter, on his "Walk the Line" biopic and "Black Cadillac," her family tribute CD -- at :24
--director JONATHAN HOLIFF on his prize-winning Cash documentary, “My Father and the Man in Black” -- at 27:25
-0-
MELISSA ERRICO, Lucille Lortel Award actress/singer/writer
-- on her CD "Legrand Affair: The Songs of Michel Legrand," and working with him -- at 19:23
-- on sharing a musical director with Barbra Streisand, working with Marvin Hamlish, and her show at 54 Below, NYC - at 35:11
-0-
MANDY PATINKIN, stage & screen (big & small) actor & singer, on his eponymous first solo album and concert series -- at 44:00
-0-
LANI HALL, jazz singer and author ("Emotional Memoirs and Short Stories"), on performing with husband HERB ALPERT, trumpeter/singer/record producer/bandleader (The Tijuana Brass), Café Carlyle, NYC-- at 27:20
-0-
CHRISTINE ANDREAS, double Tony Award actress/singer, on musical inspiration and her show "Be-mused," 54 Below supper club, NYC -- at 35:16
-0-
KAREN OBERLIN, cabaret vocalist
-- on “The Wizards of Oz: Songs of Arlen and Harburg” at Café Carlyle, NYC; and Crazy Coqs Cabaret at Brasserie Zedel, London - at 35:28
-- on , “I’ll Be Hard to Handle,” songs of willful women, Feinstein’s/Loews Regency, NYC - at 27:39
-0-
STEVE TYRELL, Grammy Award singer/music producer, on his career and the Clinton link to his latest CD and show, “I’ll Take Romance,” Cafe Carlyle, NYC -- at 35:29
-0-
SUTTON FOSTER, double Tony Award actress and singer, on John Denver, Mel Brooks, and “An Evening With Sutton Foster," Café Carlyle,” NYC -- at 35:35
-0-
LAURA BENANTI, Tony Award actress/singer, on stage vs. screen work and new CD, “In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention: Live at 54 BELOW” -- at 35:22.
-0-
MAUDE MAGGART, cabaret/recording artist, on singing with FIONA APPLE, her sister; a PBS American Songbook special; her "Speaking of Dreams" CD; and new show at Café Carlyle, NYC -- at 35:12
-0-
JENNIFER SHEEHAN, cabaret/concert artist, on singing in the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show and celebrating The Songbook in debut at Café Carlyle, NYC -- 35:33
🎼🎷🎹🎤🎺🎻😉
Thanks David - I am glad we can all respect and share each other's opinions!
And, yes, there i room for everyone's gifts! Stay safe and be well. Nancy
It is nice to read these reviews, etc. but let us not forget that this website is interested in teaching Jazz Vocalists. It seems that in the last 15 years or so, it has become popular to blur the two styles, along with Broadway style as well.
We even call it "Cabaret Jazz" - which diminishes both genres, in my opinion.
The Jazz Style is founded on The Blues . . . The rhythms are totally different and
emphasize "swing" which is unique to Jazz. There are many other qualities that the jazz singer possesses in performance that make this genre so unique. It is sad
to me that we have even lost the excellent jazz critics of yesteryear who certainly
were knowledgable about this music. When I was the subject of a Profile in
the New Yorker, the brilliant Whitney Balliett taught me and my musical partner
aspects of the history of what we were doing, that we didn't even know!
Let's be sure we thoroughly understand the differences between Jazz and Cabaret and Broadway, so that we and our performances are authentic. We can do this
by careful listening to and analyzing the performances of: Ella, Carmen, Sarah, Dinah, Peggy, Billie, Joe Williams, Mel, Nancy, Shirley etc. . . and reading and absorbing the writings of Whitney Balliett, Nat Hentoff, Gary Giddens, and other wonderful Jazz writers.
Please do your homework, vocalists! If all songs become a hodgepodge of
styles that blur together, then the performance has no focus and is not true to
anything, and the singer's reputation will reveal a lack of depth and truth.
Nancy Marano