Jerry Costanzo
Birth Place: United States
Latest News on Jerry Costanzo:
Celebrate Valentine's Day With Jerry Costanzo And His Gotham City Swingers At Argyle Theatre (Feb 13, 2019)
Music Mountain Presents Harlem String Quartet With Fei-Fei Dong and Swingtime Big Band (Jul 8, 2018)
Music Mountain Continues 88th Season with Peter Serkin and Anna Polonsky (Jun 9, 2017)
Celebrate Valentine's Day With Jerry Costanzo And His Gotham City Swingers At Argyle Theatre (Feb 13, 2019)
Music Mountain Presents Harlem String Quartet With Fei-Fei Dong and Swingtime Big Band (Jul 8, 2018)
Music Mountain Continues 88th Season with Peter Serkin and Anna Polonsky (Jun 9, 2017)
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In another time and place, Jerry Costanzo wouldn’t be interpreting the Great American Songbook. It’s likely he’d be conceiving it. Midwest Record deemed the luminous vocalist and bandleader “A cat that knows how to swing it and grab the Vegas vibe that most of us never were old enough to experience,” while Jazz.com raved, “As all great singers do, he tells a story.” Raised in a musical family, Costanzo’s musical stencil was etched with the likes of Sinatra, Sammy, Dino, Perry Como, Count Basie, Mel Torme, Jerry Vale and Nat King Cole. He was playing saxophone by third grade, and developed chops as a performer studying acting at New York’s Herbert Berghof Studio. A stint as personal aid and chauffeur for Al Pacino further apprised Costanzo to the arts, before he joined his father Joseph’s big band, The Memories Of Swing, first on sax and then as the outfit’s lead vocalist. While well into his 30s before the New Yorker recognized his calling card—bringing his musical idols back to life—Costanzo is making up for lost time. Today, the man behind the mic is a full-time troubadour and bandleader, surrounded by a Who’s Who of the jazz world. In 2008, his debut full-length album “Destination Moon,” produced by Andy Farber and accompanied by Farber & his Swing Mavens octet, served up a dozen swigin` classics, “Moon” earned Costanzo a dedicated live following, with gigs including the Annual Sinatra Birthday Bash at The Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, N.J., Lincoln Centers Mid Summer Night Swing, New York’s Metropolitan Room, Feinstein’s at The Loews Regency and Waldorf Astoria, the Long Island, N.Y., Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, Hofstra University’s Artie Shaw Centennial Concert and dozens of concert series, festivals and private posh gigs up and down the East Coast. Costanzo’s follow-up disc, “Can’t We Be Friends”—released on Daywood Drive Records and executive/co-produced by Costanzo with acclaimed vocalist and composer Kevin Fitzgerald Burke—raises the torch to fever pitch, featuring a five-piece rhythm section, that again pays homage to musical heroes who painted the original brush strokes on American standards, with a vibe he describes as “George Shearing meets The Nat King Cole Trio meets Milt Jackson.” In an interview with All About Jazz, Costanzo was asked to conjure his dream band. He joked, “They’re all dead. I wish I’d have been in my prime in the ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s.”No doubt, those who have influenced the music of Jerry Costanzo would offer a collective thumbs up for skillfully preserving their legacy. He is indeed breathing new life into a venerable chapter of America’s songbook.
Jerry Costanzo News
Celebrate Valentine's Day With Jerry Costanzo And His Gotham City Swingers At Argyle Theatre
Jerry Costanzo and his 10-piece all-star Gotham City Swingers orchestra as they bring Love Swings, love Songs from the great crooners of the 20th century, to West Babylon's Argyle Theatreon Wednesday, February 13th at 7:30 PM.
Music Mountain Presents Harlem String Quartet With Fei-Fei Dong and Swingtime Big Band
Music Mountain, America's longest running summer chamber music festival, continues its outstanding 89th season with two returning favorites! Grammy Award winning Harlem String Quartet performs Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms on Sunday, July 29 (3pm). Swingtime Big Band is back on Saturday, July 28 (6:30pm) to thrill audiences with authentic recreations of the timeless music of the swing era! Concerts are scheduled through September 23.
Music Mountain Continues 88th Season with Peter Serkin and Anna Polonsky
Music Mountain, America's Oldest Continuing Summer Chamber Music Festival, continues its 88th season with a very special program featuring renowned pianist Peter Serkin with Anna Polonsky performing works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert for Piano 4 Hands on Sunday, July 2nd (3pm). The weekend gets off to a swinging start on Saturday, July 1st (6:30pm) with Swingtime Big Band! Concerts are scheduled thru September 17th.
Jane Lee Hooker, Ellen Kaye, Vernon Reid and More Set for The Iridium This Summer
Coming up at The Iridium are: NYC's all-women blues band JANE LEE HOOKER on July 23; ELLEN KAYE with UK guitarist PAUL ROSE and Ethan Fein and the LiveIt!LIVE Band on July 26; VERNON REID POWER TRIO on July 29; and soul singer/songwriter/guitarist RAUL MIDON on September 24 & 25. Scroll down for details!
Music Mountain to Welcome Cantata Profana, 7/2-3
Spend the 4th of July weekend at America's oldest continuing summer chamber music festival, Music Mountain, when its 87th Anniversary Season continues with the young ensemble Cantata Profana on Sunday, July 3rd (3PM) performing Beethoven and Schubert. Saturday, July 2 (6:30pm) brings Swingtime Big Band back for their ninth season playing the best of the Swing Era! The summer will feature 15 weekends of incredible music including returning favorite chamber ensembles and musicians (pianists Peter Serkin and Julia Hsu), first-time guests (pianist Richard Goode), the ever-popular Saturday Evening Twilight Series, featuring an array of Jazz ensembles and musicians, including the artists of the Catskill Jazz Factory, and the second season of the new Music Mountain Master Classes for Young Artists plus so much more! See why the New Yorker called Music Mountain 'The Summer Shrine of the String Quartet.' Concerts are scheduled through September 11.
Dennis McNeil Returning to Metropolitan Room, 5/20
?Following a successful opening in April, Dennis McNeil returns on May 20th to the Metropolitan Room with 'A Century of Sinatra, The Frank Sinatra Songbook.' McNeil, who shares only his eye color to Sinatra, shares his view and take on the power, complications, and amazing longevity the Sinatra legacy brings us even today.
Music Mountain Welcomes Misha Dichter with Harlem String Quartet & Swingtime Big Band This Weekend
America's oldest continuing summer Chamber Music Festival, Music Mountain, continues their 85th Anniversary Season with Swingtime Big Band tonight, July 26 (6:30PM) with the popular pre-concert dinner beforehand (5PM) followed on Sunday, July 27 (3PM) by the piano virtuoso Misha Dichter and the acclaimed Harlem String Quartet.
Music Mountain to Welcome Misha Dichter with Harlem String Quartet & Swingtime Big Band, 7/26-27
America's oldest continuing summer Chamber Music Festival, Music Mountain, continues their 85th Anniversary Season with Swingtime Big Band on Saturday, July 26 (6:30PM) with the popular pre-concert dinner beforehand (5PM) followed on Sunday, July 27 (3PM) by the piano virtuoso Misha Dichter and the acclaimed Harlem String Quartet.
Jerry Costanzo Debuts New Release at Metropolitan Room
Talented Vocalist Jerry Costanzo will perform a variety of songs from his latest release 'Invitation' He will be accompanied by his quartet of fine musicians including Pianist/arranger Tedd Firth,Guitarist Joe Cohn,
Bassist Neal Miner and Drummer Johathan Mele. Special guest, Singer Giada Valenti will join Jerry on the song 'Little Boat' one of two featured duets on the CD.
Jerry Costanzo Performs with Giada Valenti at Dix Hills Performing Arts Center Tonight
Vocalist Jerry Costanzo will be performing as the guest of International singer/entertainer Giada Valenti. These two talented singers will be performing their rendition of the beautiful Bossa Nova 'Little Boat(O Barquinho)', a duet from Jerry's new CD 'Invitation' scheduled for release April 2nd.
Jerry Costanzo to Perform with Giada Valenti at Dix Hills Performing Arts Center, 3/23
Vocalist Jerry Costanzo will be performing as the guest of International singer/entertainer Giada Valenti. These two talented singers will be performing their rendition of the beautiful Bossa Nova 'Little Boat(O Barquinho)', a duet from Jerry's new CD 'Invitation' scheduled for release April 2nd
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