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NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- When one of the foremost interpreters of the traditional Great American Songbook teams up with one of the outstanding songwriters of today, there is only one wa
NEW YORK, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Peter Cincotti was only 18 when he made his New York cabaret debut as a headliner last year at the Algonquin Hotel's legendary Oak Room, and he is back again at 19 as a veteran cabaret star who is rapidly maturing as an eminently polished singer and compo
NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Tommy Tune has returned to New York after two years in Las Vegas to inaugurate the first new theater that the Shubert Organization has built in the city since 1
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Cabaret king Michael Feinstein knows what he'll be doing for Christmas: playing host and entertainer at his own club in New York. He's been a major vocal attraction ever since he made his New York debut at the Hotel Algonquin's Oak Room a generation ago.
Today is Friday, Dec. 6, the 340th day of 2002 with 25 to follow.
Rod Stewart has sung about staying "Forever Young." But that doesn't necessarily pertain to his musical choices. Stewart's new album, "It Had to Be You...The Great American Songbook," features his renditions of 14 pop standards from the '20s, '30s and '40
Drummer Art Blakey was born this day in 1919 in Pittsburgh. He became a one-man jazz university during his long and productive career. Blakey's band, The Jazz Messengers, became a training ground for many future bandleaders, including Jackie McLean, Johnn
NEW YORK, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- The first sleeper of the theater season is a one-woman show, "Red Hot Mama," that recreates the bigger-than-life entertainment star Sophie Tucker whose 60-year
NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Broadway's romance with Hollywood as the source of material for musical comedies continues unabated in the new theater season with the opening of "Hairspray," b
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- This year's nominees for the traditional pop vocal album Grammy could just as easily have been up for album of the year in the days when the Recording Academy was still being criticized for not being hip.