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  • Don’t You Know Molly Ringwald Sings Jazz?

    By on November 19, 2013

    Wonders never cease. Not only can the actor best known from seminal John Hughes films of the ’80s sing, but Molly Ringwald is now, improbably...

  • Amusing Klymaxx

    By on July 11, 2013

    Back in the mid-'90s Bette Midler took inspiration from Bernadette Cooper for her popular Diva Las Vegas revue. ''They love me, they hate me, but...

  • Angela Winbush at Blues Alley

    By on July 16, 2011

    R&B singer Angela Winbush started her career as a backup singer for Stevie Wonder and then joined in the duo Rene and Angela. She produces...

  • Editor’s Pick: Roseanna Vitro, tonight at Blues Alley

    By on May 26, 2011

    With her new album The Music of Randy Newman, Roseanna Vitro stakes a claim as the first jazz vocalist to explore the richly melodic, sharply...

  • Tuck & Patti at Blues Alley

    By on January 12, 2011

    Oklahoma born guitarist Tuck Andress met singer Patti Cathcart, a native of San Francisco, at an audition in Las Vegas in 1980. The husband-and-wife jazz...

  • Monty Alexander at Blues Alley

    By on December 30, 2010

    The legendary pianist Monty Alexander fuses American jazz and his Jamaican roots in a four decades-long career including work with everyone from Frank Sinatra to...

  • Diane Schuur at Blues Alley

    By on November 19, 2010

    Grammy-winning vocalist and pianist Diane Schuur embraces not only the jazz of her parents’ generation — she’s a longtime disciple of Dinah Washington — but...

  • David Sanborn at Blues Alley

    By on October 22, 2010

    Renowned and revered the world over as one of the greatest saxophone players of all time, David Sanborn has inspired countless other musicians while creating...