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Cabaret Honors Its Own
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
In a year when the cabaret community has taken some major hits (the passing of Donald Smith, founder of The Mabel Mercer Foundation and its
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
Swing Detonates on 51st Street
Friday, October 29th, 2010
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
The diminutive powerhouse, Terese Genecco, and Her Little Big Band “kick it” from Broadway clear across the Hudson, creating the kind of big, brassy, expansive














