Ella Fitzgerald News

Brenda Williams and Shannon Forsell: Sirens of Song will perform at The Cabaret at the Columbia Club on Friday, March 26, 2010 thru Saturday, March 27, 2010. All shows at 8:00 PM.

THE DAVID BERGER JAZZ ORCHESTRA - the acclaimed band featured in the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio and PBS TV - will celebrate the release of their groundbreaking new album Sing Me A Love Song: Harry Warren's Undiscovered Standards, with two sets at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola on March 29, 2010.

On Tuesday, March 23, Antoinette Montague will be performing at the John Birks Gillespie Auditorium at the Baha'i Center, with Mike Longo, Payton Crossley, Paul West, and Harry Allen on sax.

In May 1977 three artists--Robin Hirsch, a writer and director; Charles McKenna, an actor; and Raphaela Pivetta, a visual artist--stumbled across a tiny storefront on Cornelia Street in the heart of Greenwich Village and thought it the perfect place to open a café.

The Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will end its spring series at the Harris Theatre on March 21st.

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem presents NJMH'S CLASSIC SERIES harlem in the himalayas and it continues this Friday with: AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (HSDC), one of the world's premiere contemporary dance companies, will present a riveting 2010 Spring Series, which will include the World Premiere of Terence Marling's At ‘em (Atem) Adam; a Hubbard Street 2 (HS2) World Premiere performance of First Light set by HSDC's resident choreographer and dancer Alejandro Cerrudo; the Company Premiere of 27'52' by world-renowned choreographer Jirí Kylián; and a revival of Susan Marshall's Kiss. The Spring Series will take place at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph Drive, in five performances only, March 18 - 21, 2010. The Spring Series is generously sponsored by Exelon and the Chicago Sun-Times.

MAC Award-winning vocalist Rob Langeder returns with a one-night-only reprise performance of his critically-acclaimed new show, ANY PLACE I HANG MY HAT...! at the The Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street, New York, NY) on Tuesday, April 13 at 7:00 PM.

The Iridium Jazz Club will continue to celebrate Les Paul with Tim Green Quintet + Keyon Harrold Quintet MAN, HIS MUSIC AND HIS LEGACY EVERY MONDAY NIGHT WITH THE LES PAUL TRIO AND SPECIAL GUESTS LOU PALLO - GUITAR, JOHN COLIANNI - PIANO, NICKI PARROTT - BASS

Three-time Oscar and five-time GRAMMY® Award-winner Michel Legrand will perform a tribute to his 50 years of music and movies at the MGM Grand Garden Arena Saturday, March 27.

Jenna gives a rundown of where she's been and what's coming up in the world of cabaret (and sometimes beyond!) This week's column features the marvelous Marilyn Maye at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, a trip to Puppets Jazz Bar in Park Slope, and a look at the coming week!

Multi-Grammy® Award winning a cappella vocal sextet Take 6 returns to the Blue Note for a week of concerts from March 30 - April 4. The group is continuing to perform tracks from their latest CD, The Standard (Heads Up, 2008), which features standards from the jazz and pop genres. Take 6 is currently working on their next studio album, to be released later this year.

San Diego Theatres' presentations for this season at the historic and nationally acclaimed Balboa Theatre continues. For those that loved the 40's swing production of 'In the Mood' these past two seasons, this season the Balboa will be hosting The Big Band Broadcast on April 10 at 2PM ~ a swinging sentimental re-enactment of the best of the 40's big band era, with glamour, panache, humor, and top quality musicianship.

The Iridium Jazz Club is pleased to present soul, jazz and R&B diva Ms. Freda Payne in a very special Tribute To Ella Fitzgerald Thursday through Sunday, March 25 through March 28th.

The Amina Figarova Sextet is set to appear at the Jazz Standard this Wednesday, March 10th in New York City at 7:30pm and 9:30pm.

The Amina Figarova Sextet is set to appear at the Jazz Standard this Wednesday, March 10th in New York City at 7:30pm and 9:30pm.

Court Theatre proudly announces the company's fifty-sixth annual season, which opens with William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors directed by Sean Graney. The season continues with Samm-Art Williams's Home directed by Resident Artist Ron OJ Parson and Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando directed by Jessica Thebus. Artistic Director Charles Newell, Music Director Doug Peck and Resident Artist Ron OJ Parson will close the season with Gershwin and Heyward's Porgy and Bess. The 2010-11 season's fifth play, to be directed by Charles Newell, is yet to be determined; the complete season will be performed at Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Avenue in Hyde Park.

Toots Thielemans, the founding father of jazz harmonica, returns to New York for the first time in two years for a rare set of performances at the Blue Note from March 4 - 7.

The ShowRoom, Asbury Park's only independent cinema, will welcome Christopher and Rosemary Riddle, son and daughter of American music legend Nelson Riddle, for a special screening of 'The Great Gatsby' starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, on Saturday, March 6 at 1:00 p.m.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (HSDC), one of the world's premiere contemporary dance companies, will present a riveting 2010 Spring Series, which will include the World Premiere of Terence Marling's At ‘em (Atem) Adam; a Hubbard Street 2 (HS2) World Premiere performance of First Light set by HSDC's resident choreographer and dancer Alejandro Cerrudo; the Company Premiere of 27'52' by world-renowned choreographer Jirí Kylián; and a revival of Susan Marshall's Kiss. The Spring Series will take place at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph Drive, in five performances only, March 18 - 21, 2010. The Spring Series is generously sponsored by Exelon and the Chicago Sun-Times.