CABARET EVENTS FOR N.Y. STATE, NEW ENGLAND & CANADA FOR THIS DATE FROM CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
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N.Y. STATE: ECHOING BACK: THE SONGS OF JOHNNY MERCER
Fort Salem Theater once again provides a launching pad for new musical material as Broadway dance guru Karin Baker (42nd Street, Me and My Girl) introduces to the world-at-large her new concert salute to Broadway and Hollywood songwriter Johnny Mercer, in her show 'Echoing Back: The Songs of Johnny Mercer' at The MAINSTAGE AT FORT SALEM THEATER(11 East Broadway, Salem, NY - 518-854-9200) for one weekend only, Friday & Saturday, June 27th & 28th at 8:00 pm and Sunday, June 29th at 2:00 pm. Born in 1909 in Savannah, Georgia, Johnny Mercer wrote lyrics prodigiously from the 1930's to the 1970's, winning four Original Song Academy Awards and scoring dozens of recognizable hits. His Oscar songs, "On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe" (1946), "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (1951), "Moon River" (1961), and "The Days of Wine and Roses" (1962) only begin to document Mercer's lasting effect on pop music in the twentieth century. Whether it was his early Hollywood lyric collaborations with Richard Whiting ("Too Marvelous for Words" and "Hooray for Hollywood") or his bi-coastal collaborations with Harold Arlen ("Blues in the Night," "Old Black Magic," "One for My Baby," "Come Rain or Come Shine"), or his own music and lyrics in "Dream," "I Wanna Be Around," and "G.I. Jive," his songs illustrate how an era's music could reflect a smoldering sensuality that bespeaks a romanticism unequaled in our modern era of blatantly obscene lyrics. Karin Baker has taken these songs and more written by Johnny Mercer and woven them into a performance of song and dance with three Broadway performers and Fort Salem's own artistic director, Jay Kerr, featuring Granville CSD music teacher Tim Patrick on bass. Call for cover/minimum information.
BOSTON: FOURPLAY AT SCULLERS
The contemporary jazz quartet known as Fourplay will perform at SCULLERS JAZZ CLUB (400 Soldiers Field Road, Allston, MA - 617-562-4111) on Friday & Saturday, June 27th & 28th with shows at 8:00 & 10:00 pm. For two decades, the group has enjoyed consistent artistic and commercial success by grafting elements of R&B, pop and a variety of other sounds to their unwavering jazz foundations. In the course of a dozen recordings - six of which have climbed to the top of Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Album charts - the super group has continued to explore the limitless dimensions and permutations of jazz while at the same time appealing to a broad mainstream audience. Call for cover/minimum information.
BOSTON: LOOKIE LOOKIE PLAYS LATIN BUGALU
Lookie Lookie will perform at THE REGATTABAR at the Charles Hotel(1 Bennett Street, Cambridge, MA - 617-395-7757) on Friday, June 27th at 7:30 pm. Lookie Lookie is a septet playing Latin Bugalu, a crossover genre pioneered primarily by Puerto Rican New Yorkers in the 1960s. The most famous exponents are Joe Cuba and Ricardo Ray. The music was created in an attempt to bring Latin music to a mainstream audience, and the result mixes a bit of funk and blues into the Afro-Caribbean matrix, along with English as well as Spanish singing. Lookie Lookie transforms the genre by changing the instrumentation, replacing piano with saxes and augmenting the percussion. Paradoxically, the transformation makes the band sound sometimes like the early soukous bands of the Congo. The players' jazz and rock roots assure that the group is entertaining and earthy while maintaining a strong improvisational element. The members of LL are veterans of the Boston-area music scene. The founder and leader is Chris Maclachlan, who played bass in the seminal New Wave band Human Sexual Response. Percussionist Rick Barry toured for many years with Bim Skala Bim; percussionist/vocalist Vicente Lebron is a pillar of Boston's Latin music scene and a long time member of the Either/Orchestra and Club d'Elf; sax/flute man Russ Gershon leads the Either/Orchestra and trumpet Scott Getchell plays in Agachiko and Lars Vegas. For their Regattabar debut, Lookie Lookie will be bringing two special guests: percussionist and singer Jorge Arce has been a force on the Boston (and Puerto Rico) scene for decades, leading his band Humano. Saxophonist Jared Sims is a versatile and amazing player who will add fresh energy to the group. There is an $18 cover.
TORONTO: TORONTO JAZZ FESTIVAL: OLIVER JONES TRIO
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