Ann Hampton Callaway Plays Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, 5/2-5

Ann Hampton Callaway returns to Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola to pay tribute to NEA Jazz Master and GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award winner Sarah Vaughan, the singer to whom Callaway is most often compared. Callaway takes the comparison as a compliment, having already demonstrated her comfort with several daring, assured, and well-received tributes to her influences and contemporaries; from covers of classic ballads that already have decades-old "definitive" renditions, to the "Streisand Songbook," Callaway knows how to add her own voice to a wide range of popular repertoire.

Recently Callaway won her 15th MAC Award for her show the "Streisand Songbook," for which she also won two Broadwayworld.com Awards "Best Tribute Show of the Year," and the "NY Cabaret Award." For these performances, song selections may include "Like Someone in Love," "Misty," "There Will Never Be Another You," and "A Night in Tunisia." Callaway will perform her long-time Musical Director/pianist Ted Rosenthal, bassist Dean Johnson, and drummer Tim Horner.

Ann Hampton Callaway, one of the leading champions of the great American Songbook, has made her mark as a singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, educator, TV host and producer. She won the Theater World Award and received a Tony nomination for her starring role in the Broadway musical "Swing!" Ann made her Hollywood screen debut in Robert DeNiro's "The Good Shepherd" and was featured in the soundtrack of Queen Latifah's "Last Holiday". Ann produced and hosted two TV specials called "Singer's Spotlight" with guests Liza Minnelli and Christine Ebersole and is in the planning stages for a radio series. She's written over 250 songs including two Platinum Award winning hits for Barbra Streisand and the theme for the hit TV series "The Nanny." She performs the critically acclaimed acts "Sibling Revelry" and "Boom!" with Broadway star and sister Liz Callaway and their CD "Boom! Live at Birdland" was released to rave reviews debuting at #25 on The Billboard Jazz Chart. This year, Ann has taken the symphony world by storm with her tribute to her legendary mentor in "The Streisand Songbook" which she premiered with The Boston Pops and will be touring nationwide through 2013. Ann has recorded 12 solo CD's including the celebrated "At Last" and is a guest artist on over 45 CD's. For more information, see www.annhamptoncallaway.com

Ann says, "I have always loved Sarah's music and grew up hearing my dad play her records. She has been described as a jazz singer, but like me, she loved and performed many kinds of music. Other parallels I love are the fact that she was a pianist, had classic vocal training and was a musician's musician at heart. Her use of the voice as an instrument, mirroring many instruments of the orchestra, has been an important role model for me. Her love of improvising on the spot, scat singing and performing in many settings like solo piano, trio, big band and orchestra mirrors my own interests and has guided me though my life. I was privileged to see Sarah's last live performance at The Blue Note in 1989 just as she was discovering she had lung cancer. It was one of the most inspiring performances I ever heard and I was thrilled to finally meet her after her show upstairs in her dressing room. Of all the jazz voices I have grown up with, my instrument has been most often compared to Sarah's and what a compliment that is to me."

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