JOHNNY RODGERS BAND Returns to Birdland 10/25

Jim Caruso is pleased to announce that Johnny Rodgers BAND will be performing in concert at Birdland on Monday, October 25 at 7pm. The event will be part of the long-running Broadway at Birdland concert series.

Johnny Rodgers is an internationally-celebrated singer-songwriter, pianist, and recording artist. Johnny and the Johnny Rodgers Band dazzle audiences with their enthusiastic musical mélange of Americana featuring original songs and classic favorites which celebrate the roots of jazz, blues, soul, country, rock and pop. Rodgers will perform on piano and lead vocals, and the Band includes Brian Glassman on bass, Danny Mallon on drums/vocals, and Joe Ravo on guitar.

Johnny Rodgers Band invites you to celebrate a grand "Bon Voyage" as they embark on the famed Rhythm Road international tour for the entire month of November through Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln Center and the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. These music ambassadors will share their "American Roots" music with embassies, the local children and musicians in a cross-cultural exchange.

Johnny has won the Billboard, The Great American Song Contests and the ASCAP Foundation Award for his songwriting. He has earned Nightlife, Bistro, and MAC Awards for his outstanding performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel, The Royal Room at The Colony Hotel Palm Beach, Feinstein's at Loews Regency, Birdland, Joe's Pub and other premiere New York City clubs. He has also taken his performances to the Los Angeles Ford Amphitheatre, Arturo Sandoval's, Festival Miami at the University of Miami, and to a 3000-seat sold-out audience at the historic Deering Estate in Miami. Johnny also performed for Billy Joel and Judy Collins at Lincoln Center's ASCAP Foundation Awards.

Liza Minnelli recognized Johnny's talent and brought him on as her pianist and guest performer for her world tours. He performed as one of The Williams Brothers with Liza on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning Liza's At The Palace, which now appears on PBS television. Johnny co-wrote the featured song "I Would Never Leave You" and is included on the show's DVD release as well as the Grammy-nominated CD.

Johnny's recorded albums include Box of Photographs, Bound Together and Let's Make A Date. "The Best Of You In Me" on the Bound Together album is available in a choral arrangement from Hal Leonard Publishing. In addition to Liza Minnelli, Johnny Rodgers has also performed and recorded with Michael Feinstein, Randy Brecker, Tom Harrell, Stephen Schwartz, and Ann Hampton Callaway, among others, and is featured on the recordings; The Maury Yeston Songbook, Hallways: The Songs of Carol Hall, and Jule Styne In Hollywood.

Johnny Rodgers Band
Monday, October 25 at 7pm
Birdland, 315 West 44 Street, NC
$25 cover, $10 food/drink minimum
212-581-3080 or www.BirdlandJazz.com

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