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May 21st & 24th, 2023

Dakota Staton

Some of the songs from her career that we will hear:

I Hear Music
Gladys Shelley’s I Did Everything Right With The Wrong Man (And Everything Wrong With The Right Man)
Make It Easy on Yourself (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
plus “Let Me Off Uptown” (Earl Bostic, Redd Evans)
of course, The Late, Late, Show
and Is You Is, or Is You Ain’t My Baby recorded Live at Storyville, 1961
And More!

We continue to celebrate the Judy Garland Centennial and I’ll chat with Award-winning music producer, critic and translator, Lawrence Schulman about Bertrand Tessier’s biography of Judy Garland – Splendor and Downfall of a Legend.

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We Listened to
Four Renditions of

Too Close for Comfort

written by Jerry Bock, George David Weiss, and Larry Holofcener for the score for the musical, Mr. Wonderful with performance by

Sammy Davis, Jr.
Eydie Gormé
Natalie Cole
John Pizzarelli

Album Pick of the Week

Cecile McLorin Salvant - Mélusine

Catch Cecile at Jazz At Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater May 19th & 20th at 8PM. These are her last US appearances before she kicks off her International tour through Europe & Asia. She returns to the US in July with a performance at The Orpheum Performing Arts Center in Tannersville, NY on July 8th.