Overlooking Symphony Park,
the beautiful club called Cabaret Jazz will spotlight some of the world’s most
gifted jazz artists and cabaret entertainers at The Smith Center for the
Performing Arts beginning March 2012. Cabaret Jazz will showcase legendary
names in entertainment and music history, including three-time Las Vegas
Entertainer of the Year Clint Holmes, SFJAZZ Collective, three-time Grammy®
winner and saxophonist Branford Marsalis, and cabaret vocalists Barbara Cook
and Andrea Marcovicci. Tickets will go on sale beginning January 27, 2012, at
10 a.m.
Patrons can purchase
individual tickets for all shows at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts by
calling (702) 982-7805 or by visiting www.thesmithcenter.com. Tickets for most
shows in Cabaret Jazz start at $35.
“Cabaret Jazz is the perfect
place for local music lovers to enjoy collaborations and performances by our
generation’s greatest musicians and entertainers,” said Myron Martin, president
and CEO of The Smith Center. “Outfitted with a unique ambience, exceptional
food and an unbelievable artist line-up, it is the complete dining and club
experience.”
Upon its opening in March,
Cabaret Jazz will host a number of artists and entertainers. The addition of
performances is ongoing and tickets are available to the public upon schedule
confirmation. This is unlike other performances scheduled at The Smith Center,
which are presented to the public season by season.
In addition, the club will
offer a full-fledged food and beverage menu, complete with signature cocktails
and a casual dining menu that will include everything from bourbon glazed short
ribs to Baton Rouge style gumbo, as well as a list of lite bites.
Built with sophistication and
elegance, the 258-seat Cabaret Jazz provides a truly unique and cool experience
for music lovers to embrace.
Taking center stage in the
stunning, two-story Cabaret Jazz inside the Boman Pavilion, the performance
lineup will highlight the following entertainers:
· March 17-18, 2012 – SFJAZZ Collective:
Music of Stevie Wonder
· March 31, 2012 – Three-time
Grammy®-winner Branford Marsalis
· Beginning April 2012, performing the
first weekend of every month - Clint Holmes
· April 13-14, 2012 – Andrea Marcovicci
– Marcovicci Sings Movies
· April 15-16, 2012 – Suzanne Vega and
Duncan Sheik
· April 20-21, 2012 – Joey DeFrancesco
Trio
· May 11-12, 2012 – James Gavin’s STORMY
WEATHER: The Lena Horne Project
· May 18-19, 2012 – Jane Monheit
· May 24-27, 2012 – Barbara Cook
· June 8 & 9, 2012 – Emily Bergl
· June 15-16, 2012 – Lucy Woodward
· June 29-30, 2012 – Preservation Hall
Jazz Band
The SFJAZZ Collective is
comprised of professional instrumentalists with exceptional talent and
creativity. Together, they will perform select hits from the one-and-only
Stevie Wonder, as well as original compositions from each member
One of the world’s most
talented saxophonists, three-time Grammy®-winner Branford Marsalis, will
deliver engaging performances from jazz to classical to funk, with exceptional
precision and exuberance designed to excite the senses of audiences.
Beginning April 2012, Las
Vegas headliner Clint Holmes will begin his monthly residency, bringing his
charm and charismatic presence to the stage. The acclaimed singer, who was
named Las Vegas “Entertainer of the Year” three times, Las Vegas’ “Best Singer”
four times by readers of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and honored with the
Sammy Davis Jr. Foundation award will return in an exclusive engagement at
Cabaret Jazz. Holmes’ magnetic personality and high-energy performances,
ranging from contemporary to jazz to Broadway, will light up the stage for an
unforgettable night.
Renowned singer-songwriters
turned music-theater composers Suzanne Vega and Duncan Sheik will team up to
perform their most celebrated songs as well as new material based on their
latest theatrical projects. Vega both wrote and stars in “Carson McCullers
Talks About Love,” which opened at the Rattlestick Theater in NYC in the Spring
2011. Sheik, best known for the hit song “Barely Breathing” and writing the
Tony and a Grammy-award winning Broadway musical “Spring Awakening,” also
contributed music to the McCullers project. This is the rare co-bill where two
artists will perform their new material together, exploring their uniquely
narrative songwriting style.
Two-time Grammy® nominee,
Joey DeFrancesco emerged onto the jazz scene in 1989 with the release of his
first album, All of Me, bringing back the Hammond B-3 Organ sound to popular
music. Selected as the top jazz organist by Down Beat's Critics and Readers Poll
every year since 2003, DeFrancesco will perform live at Cabaret Jazz with his
trio to deliver a swinging night filled with harmonic depth.
Cabaret singer Andrea
Marcovicci illuminates how movie music has scored our lives with a performance
the New York Times raved as “beautifully written, erudite and expertly
performed.” With a dazzling array of movie songs from the 1930s to the 1990s
with highlights such as The Way We Were, Thanks for the Memory, and As Time
Goes By, “Marcovicci doesn’t just sing songs, she embraces their history and
emotion” as noted by the Los Angeles Times. With her captivating voice and
radiant enthusiasm, Marcovicci will continue to shine and inspire on the stage
at Cabaret Jazz.
Starring Mary Wilson of the
Supremes, James Gavin’s STORMY WEATHER: The Lena Horne Project is about
Hollywood’s first African-American goddess, reigning from MGM’s “dream factory”
to a nightclub seductress to a civil rights icon. Performed by renowned
celebrity Wilson, the legendary Supremes singer delivers a passionate and
unsurpassed tribute to an outstanding American icon.
The delicate vocal styling of
Jane Monheit has continued to hypnotize both the jazz and cabaret worlds, with
the recent release of her tenth album. Monheit offers a mature and heartfelt
sound perfectly suitable for Cabaret Jazz and audiences. With vocals at the
peak of perfection, Monheit transforms each and every performance with ease and
entertainment pleasure.
Commended as “the greatest
theatrical singer in concert at the moment” by The London Times, Barbara Cook’s
silvery soprano and purity of tone has delighted audiences around the world for
more than 50 years. Cook has accomplished a successful career as a concert and
recording artist and is considered “Broadway’s favorite ingénue.” In addition,
Cook was recently selected by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts Center as an honoree for the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors.
Emily Bergl is best known for
her role on "Desperate Housewives," but her recent show received
raves from sold out Oak Room audiences and the NY Times, Wall Street Journal,
and Bloomberg News. "Kidding on the
Square" is vintage entertainment told from the perspective of a modern
girl, an old fashioned show with stunning costume changes, audience
participation, and character songs that run the gamut from broad comedy to
intense drama. Audiences are transported
to a unique musical world that blends classic hits from Noel Coward to Fats
Waller with modern favorites from Madonna to the Scissor Sisters. In the words
of Stephen Holden, "Welcome to the second decade of the 21st
century."
Lucy Woodward is an
expressive vocalist and an insightful and witty songwriter, acclaimed as an
“International Artist to Watch” by Italian Vogue. Woodward drew inspiration from a deep well of
jazz and pop influences with the release of her third album Hooked!, earning
her rave reviews from critics including USA Today, who called Woodward’s music
“A steamy, string-kissed slice of retro British pop by a versatile singer/songwriter.”
The Preservation Hall Jazz
Band derives its name from their venerable music venue located in New Orleans’
French Quarter, founded in 1961 by Allan and Sandra Jaffe. Now celebrating
their 50th Anniversary, the band has traveled worldwide spreading their mission
to nurture and perpetuate the art form of New Orleans Jazz. Whether performing
at Carnegie Hall or Lincoln Center, for British Royalty or the King of
Thailand, this music embodies a joyful, timeless spirit. Under the auspices of
current director, Ben Jaffe, the son of founders Allan and Sandra, Preservation
Hall continues with a deep reverence and consciousness of its greatest
attributes in the modern day as a venue, band, and record label.
About The Smith Center for
the Performing Arts:
The Smith Center for the
Performing Arts is a public/private partnership that will become the
centerpiece of cultural life in Las Vegas, offering a blend of performances by
resident companies, as well as first-run touring attractions. The 5-acre cultural
campus will feature three performance spaces, the 2,050-seat main performance
area in Reynolds Hall and Boman Pavilion’s 258-seat Cabaret Jazz and 250-seat
Troesh Studio Theater, and will also be home to a 1.7 acre park, which can be
used for outdoor concerts. Additionally, the campus will be the new location of
the Discovery Children’s Museum. The
Smith Center will be the cultural center for Las Vegas – a place that will
educate, entertain and excite the citizens of our great community. Located in downtown’s 61-acre urban
development, Symphony Park, The Smith Center broke ground in May of 2009 with a
ceremonial carillon bell casting and ringing. In February 2010, it celebrated
its “Topping Out” with the raising of 50 tons of steel. The Smith Center will
open in March 2012. For more information about The Smith Center for the
Performing Arts, please visit www.thesmithcenter.com. Keep up with news and
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