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Winter Sunshine Courtesy of the Johnny Rodgers Band
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Sunday night, the buoyant Johnny Rodgers Band rocked the roof off Iridium on West 51st Street. From jazzy Johnny Mercer standards with which his voice
There Are Nights Like This
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Les Paul’s arrangements of Avalon, All of Me, and Brazil, played by his extant group, evoke old black and white movies and fox trotting in
Paula West: She Doesn’t Vocalize?!
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
by Alix Cohen on Woman Around Town
Paula West is a natural. That’s easy to write, but difficult to write truthfully. She may have had a total of a year’s vocal training
Paula West—A Natural at Feinstein’s
Thursday, October 14th, 2010
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Go girl, seek happy nights to happy days. William Shakespeare Paula West plants herself on the stage with indisputable aplomb and six inch platform heels.
The New Americana: The Johnny Rodgers Band—
Too Marvelous for Words at the Oak Room
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
by Carol Toscano on Playing Around
There’s something very American about sitting back in the Algonquin Hotel’s legendary Oak Room listening to the music of a new American classic: Johnny Rodgers
Jane Monheit—Hitting the Right Notes at the Blue Note
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around
Somewhere in the middle of Jane Monheit’s show at the Blue Note, we experience an “ah-ha” moment. It happens when she sings “Something Cool,” from
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