Deborah Grace Winer – Defined By the Company She Keeps Author/historian/dramatist and self avowed “show maker,” Deborah Grace Winer owns her grandmother’s 1929 piano. (“Lots of cool [...]February 21, 2018
Unforgettable – Thos Shipley Tips His Hat to Nat King Cole Thos Shipley presented a tribute to Nat King Cole Saturday evening, March 25, at the Metropolitan Room to a sold out audience, both vocal [...]March 28, 2017
Stacy Sullivan – CD: Stranger in a Dream – Recommended I would call this an appreciation. I’ve listened to Stranger in a Dream several times now, hearing something new or drifting at different [...]October 5, 2016
Lee Day on Life, Liver and the Hirsute of Happiness On a lovely early autumn Saturday (9/17) The Metropolitan Room hosted its first Pet Cabaret. It may now take a modest bowwow. I have [...]September 18, 2016
Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano: Sun! Skin! Sin! Sinatra! Sunday afternoon I took a mini-vacation with Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano- well, me and the rest of the audience at Birdland. Like [...]July 20, 2016
Catherine Russell: Sunny Side of the Street Catherine Russell’s latest concert for Jazz at Lincoln Center was apparently “thirty years in the making.” Both a celebration of [...]April 20, 2016
Witchcraft – The Jazz Magic of Cy Coleman – Sparkling Most fans know composer/songwriter/pianist Cy Coleman (Seymour Kaufman 1929-2004) as an author of such musical theater successes as Sweet [...]March 22, 2016