Friday, November 26, 2021
One of the launching points of Andrea Bell Wolff’s Vegas Adventure at Don’t Tell Mama is an admission of age by the singer-actress. She just celebrated a birthday that’s quite a few de…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:20PMTuesday, November 2, 2021
Fast-rising jazz star AnaÏs Reno came home to Birdland to celebrate her debut CD, Lovesome Thing, the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, released during pandemic lockdown. As expe…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 01:13PMMonday, October 25, 2021
Actress-commedienne-vocalist extraordinaire Klea Blackhurst is certifiably “one of the girls”—Jerry Herman’s girls, that is. Blackhurst earned the title playing Dolly Levi at Goodspe…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:07PMFriday, October 15, 2021
Broadway star Kelli Rabke, a singer-actress of petite stature, got to thinking; it occurred to her that an abundance of legendary singing stars, particularly those who’ve even become iconi…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 03:13PMWednesday, October 6, 2021
More and more Grammy Award-nominated jazz singer Nicole Zuraitis has been widening her presence in the jazz and popular music spheres with original material. Her recent album release on the …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 03:15PMFriday, October 1, 2021
Who doesn’t love a good pun? And who doesn’t love a creatively put together cabaret show featuring a warm-hearted, multi-award winning singer and her long-time award-winning music direct…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 07:30PMWednesday, September 29, 2021
The air was super-charged at Birdland Theater as violinist Marissa Licata presented Strings On Fire, with a program of eclectic work that dazzled. She wasn’t kidding, either, when she name…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 09:16AMWhat kind of mind does Jason Kravits have, anyway? His popular improv show, Off the Top! readily reveals the answer to this burning question. Kravits has a quick mind—on steroids. It’s p…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 09:16AMMonday, September 20, 2021
There’s no question that Grammy Award-winning vocalist Catherine Russell is the queen of any stage she’s gracing. After all, she is jazz royalty, the daughter of Luis Russell, pianist-le…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:40PMMonday, August 23, 2021
Two-time Tony Award® winner, Norbert Leo Butz, commanding the stage at Feinstein’s/54 Below, was downright mesmerizing. In Torch Songs for a Pandemic, Butz created an entertaining, fully-…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 02:26PMThursday, August 19, 2021
Scott Siegel’s Broadway’s Greatest Hits series always offers a good time. Host, writer, producer Siegel has a stellar track record of finding sublime talent from Broadway, cabaret and op…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:48PMMonday, August 9, 2021
What a joy to hear Billy Stritch’s album Billy’s Place come to life at Birdland Jazz Club. The euphoria of live performance and of coming home to the venue was palpable for everyone in t…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 10:58AMTuesday, July 27, 2021
The multi-talented David Sabella is a performer who walks his talk. He’s the author (with Sue Matsuki) of “So You Want To Sing Cabaret,” a comprehensive study of the genre, and clearly…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 09:47AMFriday, July 9, 2021
Scott Siegel and company celebrated The 4th of July at Feinstein’s/54 Below with pure Americana—a Siegel version of Walt Whitman’s I Hear America Singing, with music from Broadway, Hol…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 07:08PMMonday, December 14, 2020
By Marilyn. Lester***As we’ve written about many times in these pages, short-shrift is given to culture and the arts in this country, despite the important economic engine this sector driv…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 09:25PMTuesday, October 27, 2020
An Arts and Culture Trust Fund has been proposed by New Jersey Mayor Steven M. Fulop of Jersey City as a financially feasible way to ensure that the arts sector has the resources it needs to…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:41PMWednesday, May 13, 2020
From time to time we’ve covered the news about the Mayor’s Office of Nightlife since its inception two years ago. At that time, in response to increasing complaints about late-night dist…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:05PMMonday, April 13, 2020
By Marilyn Lester****“Laughter the Best Medicine.” The Reader’s Digest ran this column for years. And it’s true, particularly through the lens of lyricist Michael Colby‘s new “I�…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 12:36PMMonday, January 20, 2020
Hats off and applause to the Broadway and theater community for their outpouring of love and for their actions in response to the devastating bush fires in Australia. As a result of record …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 12:20PMMonday, December 30, 2019
They’re toppling like dominoes—long-established restaurants and institutions that can’t keep up with the rising costs of doing business in Manhattan. Lately, the Boat Basin Cafe at 79t…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 05:47PMSaturday, November 23, 2019
What fun! Marta Sanders and Leanne Borghesi sure know how to put on a show and leave ’em wanting more. Their Showbroads was a powerhouse of entertainment, as you’d expect from two broads…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 07:29PMSunday, October 20, 2019
Sometimes it’s not easy to walk in parental footsteps, especially for gifted children of the famous. But if they’re fortunate, their own art can be a guide out of the shadows. This is th…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:50PMTuesday, August 27, 2019
Reed-meisters Peter and Will Anderson‘s second installment of their annual Songbook Summit directed the spotlight on the life and music of the trumpeter/vocalist/composer Louis Armstrong�…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 01:23PMThursday, August 8, 2019
What can you say about a five year-old on a tobacco farm in South Carolina who thinks he’s Carol Channing, and who plays to the tombstones in a local cemetery as his audience? Only that he…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 03:22PMMonday, July 29, 2019
The wall of sound that brass can create in simultaneous play is an experience high on the scale of titanically thrilling. This adrenaline rush is exactly what trumpet masters Jeremy Pelt, Wa…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 01:57PMWednesday, July 17, 2019
In the world of entertainment, the venerable house concert is an institution long enjoyed from the beginnings of music itself. From the caves of early humans to the courts of royalty and the…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:18PMWednesday, June 5, 2019
To mark the 50th Anniversary of the passing of Judy Garland, the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, and the 80th Anniversary of the release of The Wizard of Oz, singer Sarah DeLeo was …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 02:33PMTuesday, May 28, 2019
Chances are if you’re reading NiteLifeExchange.com you’re already a champion of the arts—and therefore understand the vital necessity to cultivate and teach the arts to succeeding gene…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 01:27PMMonday, May 6, 2019
From the Catskills to Las Vegas and back again, singer Julie Budd is one of the last performers standing from the glamorous age of nightclubs and variety television. She’s got quite a foll…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 01:07PMWednesday, May 1, 2019
Clarinetist Ken Peplowski is not only a virtuoso of the licorice stick, but a darn good leader too. His assembled big band at Birdland on the eve of Duke Ellington’s 120th birthday (April …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 02:29PMTuesday, April 23, 2019
Singer-pianist Daryl Sherman has been a long-time fixture in the international and New York City jazz world. Her endurance as a favorite is well-founded in her talent and charm. She’s full…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 01:26PM 
