Callaway to Sing 'Blues in the Night' at the Blue Note

Ann Hampton Callaway, the multiplatinum-selling songwriter and singer, will perform selections from her latest CD "Blues In The Night" at the famous Blue Note Jazz Club (101 West Third Street in New York) from Thursday, July 26 to Sunday, July 29. Shows are at 8:00 PM and 10:30 PM.

Perhaps best known for writing the theme to the TV hit "The Nanny" and songs for Barbra Streisand, last year Callaway made her Hollywood screen debut with  Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie in the Robert DeNiro film The Good Shepherd. The pilot for her new PBS TV series "The Singer's Spotlight" – with special guest Liza Minnelli – will debut on July 26 on WTTW in Chicago in preparation for a national broadcast in the fall.

For the concert, she will be joined by Ted Rosenthal on piano, Jay Leonhart on bass and Victor Lewis on drums.

"Blues In The Night," her new CD, features performances by Sherrie Maricle and the Diva Jazz Orchestra and arrangements by Tommy Newsom, Johnny Carson's longtime musical director on "The Tonight Show," Matt Catingub, Bill Mays and Ms. Callaway. The CD's 12 tracks are available on iTunes, in addition to an original love ballad, "You Are You," which Telarcs offers as an internet exclusive.

"'Blues In The Night' is a dynamic and stirring collection of American Songbook classics, mixed with potent and witty original songs. The recording contains several jazz standards, but with arrangements and interpretations far from standard," state press notes. 

Among the songs on "Blues in the Night" are: "Swinging Away the Blues," the title song (which Callaway performed on Broadway in Swing!), "Blue Moon," a medley of Harold Arlen's "Stormy Weather" and "When The Sun Comes Out," "The I'm-Too-White-to-Sing-the-Blues Blues," "Hip to Be Happy," "No One Is Alone," and "It's Alright with Me." I feel like I've put my own stamp on these songs," said Callaway, "and I hope my listeners can find new truth in them. There is nothing like hearing a vintage song that we all know and love, yet feeling like you are hearing it for the first time."

Telarc International, "now in its twenty-eighth year as one of the world's most distinguished independent recording companies, has been honored with forty-nine Grammy Awards for performance, production and engineering.  Other important awards have included the French Grand Prix du Disque and Diapason d'Or; Japan's Record of the Year; and Germany's Audiophile CD of the Year.  Although it began as a classical label, the Cleveland-based company now boasts a catalog of over 600 recordings in a variety of genres, ranging from classical and classical-crossover to contemporary blues and jazz. Telarc releases approximately fifty-five recordings each year, working with a host of jazz headliners including Dave Brubeck, The Manhattan Transfer, McCoy Tyner, John Pizzarelli, Tierney Sutton and Janis Siegel."

There is a $25.00 cover charge and reservations can be made by calling (212) 475-8592 or visiting www.bluenote.net.