Whether embodying the hip, impossibly cool style of West Coast jazz, or performing his own wonderfully crafted songs, Spencer Day brings a personal and tuneful strain of American music into a new century. Recipient of a 2020 Bistro Award for Outstanding Singer-Songwriter-Recording Artist, here’s how he envisions “One” (Marvin Hamlisch, music, Ed Kleban, lyrics), along […]
Sue Matsuki and her musical director Gregory Toroian began collaborating 25 years ago, and their 2020 Bistro Award for Outstanding Collaboration exemplifies the success of their individual talents and their ability to weave these talents together. Watch their performance of Cole Porter’s “Too Darn Hot” at the Bistro gala, with Skip Ward on bass and David […]
Nancy McGraw exemplifies incisive musicianship and on-the-mark interpretation. She is the recipient of the 2020 Bistro Award’s Interpretive Artistry Award. Here she is with a medley about years gone by, taken from her Johnny Mercer tribute show, beginning with “I Wonder What Became of Me (Harold Arlen, music; Johnny Mercer, lyrics), followed by “When the […]
Salty Brine is the creative force behind “The Living Record Collection,” a series of cabaret performances built around popular music albums. Recipient of the 2018 Bistro Award for Creative Artistry, here he is at the awards show performing from his show “Welcome to the Jungle” where he uses songs from Harry Nilsson’s “Nilsson Schmilsson,” woven […]
Daniel Alexander Jones, an acclaimed interdisciplinary artist, and the 2019 Bistro Awards’ recipient for Outstanding Performing Artistry. Watch as his alter-ego, Jomama Jones, along with back-up accompaniment from Trevor Bachman and Vuyo Sotashe, perform “Supernova,” written by Jones with Bobby Halverson.
Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire closed the Bistro Awards’ 35th anniversary on March 9, 2020, by performing their own “One Step,” from their revue Starting Here, Starting Now that opened Off Broadway in June of 1977 at Barbarann, a bar/restaurant on W. 46th St.
Liz Callaway here singing “The Story Goes On,” from Maltby & Shire’s “Baby” that ran on Broadway from 1983-1984 with a book by Sybille Pearson and directed by Maltby. Callaway played “Lizzie,” one of the leads. Alex Rybeck accompanies.
Sally Mayes, another original cast member of Maltby & Shire’s four-hander Closer Than Ever, performing “Miss Byrd,” a song that has become practically identified with the singer. Alex Rybeck accompanies. “Closer Than Ever” was originally conceived as Next Time Now! at Eighty Eight’s, before expanding to become Closer Than Ever and presented at the Williamstown […]
Lynne Wintersteller, one of the original cast members of Maltby & Shire’s Closer Than Ever, sings “Life Story” from that show as part of the Bistro Awards’ tribute to the songwriting team on March 9 at the 35th annual Bistro Awards gala evening. Richard Maltby and David Shire are known for their story songs and […]
Charlotte Maltby sings “Autumn,” one of the first songs written by Richard Maltby and David Shire for a musical version of “Cyrano de Bergerac” while they were still students at Yale. It eventually became part of “Starting Here, Starting Now” which premiered at the cabaret space at Manhattan Theatre Club in 1977, and then transferred […]