“There are good shows
and there are great shows, but once in a blue moon you're at a cabaret and you know
something extraordinary is going on. De Lorenzo is at the top of
his game.” - Beverly
Creasy, Cabaret Scenes | Talent
America’s 2001 Performer
of the Year
Brian De Lorenzo Sings Unforgettable:
The Nat King Cole Songbook
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with - The Bill Duffy Quartet Wednesday, March
13, 2013 • 8 PM Scullers Jazz Club DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel 400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston, MA
Show: $22 • Dinner
& Show: $62 Scullersjazz.com • 617-562-4111 |
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“When
a singer has a voice like Brian De Lorenzo, musicians like to say, ‘He
is a songwriter's best friend.’”
- Chet Williamson, Worcester Magazine |
BOSTON, MA - Award-winning singer Brian De Lorenzo
swings into Scullers to celebrate the artistry and remarkable career of one
of America’s favorite singers, Nat King Cole. De Lorenzo
presents songs for which Mr. Cole is well known – songs such as “Nature
Boy,” “Mona Lisa,” and “Don't Get Around
Much Anymore” – plus stories and anecdotes about Mr. Cole’s
personal and professional lives. De Lorenzo will also interweave memories and anecdotes
from his own experiences of Nat King Cole’s music.
As we approach the 40th
anniversary of the passing of this wonderful entertainer, De Lorenzo feels
that Mr. Cole deserves to be honored for his talent as a singer and for his importance
to entertainment and race relations in the 20th Century. Cole also has connections
to Massachusetts and Boston as a performer and through family members. Boston-area
audiences will find those connections to be extremely interesting.
Bios
Talent America’s 2001 “Performer of the Year” Brian
De Lorenzo is equally at home in cabaret rooms, concert halls, and theatres
including venues in Boston (Scullers Jazz Club, Club Café), New York (Birdland,
Eighty-Eight’s, Don’t Tell Mama), Provincetown (the Crown & Anchor),
Chicago, San Francisco, and cruise ships in Alaska and the Mediterranean. Brian
has performed at the prestigious Mabel Mercer Cabaret Conventions in New York and
Chicago and at three Boston Cabaret Festivals. He has appeared in IRNE- and Elliot
Norton Award-winning theatre productions in the Boston area including The Wild
Party and On the Twentieth Century. Other theatre credits include “Bob
Cratchit” in A Christmas Carol at North Shore Music Theatre; “Max”
in Lend Me a Tenor; “Zangara” in Assassins at Lyric Stage
(voted best theatre production of 1998 by The Boston Globe); “Jinx”
in Forever Plaid; and a tour of Esther in Europe. His CD “Found
Treasures” was nominated for the 2000 “Recording of the Year”
Award by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs (MAC). Brian can also be
heard extensively on the Original Cast Recording of Made in America: Vaudeville
Songs. He is also featured on the world premiere recording of the musical Smooth
Sailing. He has been nominated three times for an IRNE Award for “Best
Cabaret Show.” Brian is well known for finding wonderful songs that aren’t
so well known; and for his interpretations of standards from the Great American
Songbook and musical theatre.
Bill Duffy has been entertaining
audiences on both coasts and in Europe for 35 years. A gifted multi-instrumentalist,
Bill was house pianist at the Park Hyatt in San Francisco, and later had a seven-year
residency at the Four Seasons Boston. His recording career began with the San Francisco-based
Martini Brothers, and continued on CD’s by Overall Junction, Krisanthi Pappas,
and Dane Vannatter, among others. Bill has toured nationally with Senegalese guitarist
Pascal Bokar, and as a civilian player in the U.S. Air Force “big band.”
Especially noted for his warm and supportive style, Bill accompanies singers throughout
the Northeast, while maintaining a busy schedule of jazz trio dates and private
teaching. Bill was accompanist for the critically acclaimed Brian De Lorenzo…
& Friends, also at Scullers.
WHAT CRITICS ARE SAYING
“He
has one of those rare voices that make first-time listeners stop and say, “Who
is that?’”
- Worcester Magazine
“Well worth a listen.”
- WVOX/WRTN Radio, New York
“His vocals place him among the best currently
appearing on the New York cabaret scene.”
- Cabaret Hotline Online
“Although
the title of Brian De Lorenzo’s
Found Treasures CD refers to the songs it contains, the cabaret singer is one himself.”
- Show Music
“Wonderful vocal work.”
- Boston Herald
“A particularly accomplished singer.”
- Boston Phoenix
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