WILL FRIEDWALD
Mr. Friedwald writes about music and popular culture for The New York Sun and…
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Two Artists Who Were Deeply Influenced by Mel Tormé, Billy Stritch and Nicolas King, Celebrate the Singer’s 100th at 54 Below
If anyone deserves to be called a ‘jazz singer’ it was Tormé, who sang with a virtually unstoppable swinging energy, near-perfect pitch, and had better time than almost anyone.
Catherine Russell and Colin Hancock Team Up To Celebrate the Legacies of Early Female Jazz Vocalists
The two have joined forces on one of the most remarkable releases of the year if not the decade, ‘Cat & the Hounds,’ which she has been launching this week with a five-night run at Birdland.
A Broadway Star Born in 2001, Casey Likes Offers a Surprising Amount of Backstory in His New One-Man Show
He spends most of the 75-minute show talking about himself, and it’s to his credit that he doesn’t come off as bragging when detailing so many triumphs in such a short amount of time.
Birdland Sets a Centennial Celebration of One of Jazz’s First Great Vocal/Instrumental Collaborations
A multi-talented young singer-instrumentalist, Bryce Edwards, in tandem with a brilliant trumpeter, Mike Davis, will be performing the music of the Hot Combination: Cliff Edwards and ‘Red’ Nichols.
Racial Undercurrent of George C. Wolfe’s Production of ‘Gypsy’ Comes Through Clearly in Newly Released Cast Album
Also of note: Audra McDonald turns a potential liability — the inherent moral and musical differences between the nature of her voice and that of the score — into an asset.
Joe Iconis and an Extended ‘Family’ of Performers Unleash a Most Immersive Theatrical Experience at 54 Below
One of the more forward-thinking composers working in musical theater, Iconis’s performances are so meticulously organized and arranged that they might as well be full-scale theatrical works.
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