Dec27

TERESE GENECCO & HER LITTLE BIG BAND

The Iridium, 1650 Broadway, New York, NY

Come to the biggest little party on Broadway!  Terese Genecco & Her Little Big Band (with special guest stars Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano) are sending off 2011 in style! But don't believe us!  Believe Will Friedwald of the Wall Street Journal and the award-winning author of "Sinatra: The Song Is You! - A Singer's Art" "There were no 'mice' in the Ratpack - it was strictly an all-boy's club.  But if Frank, Dean and Sammy ever returned from the Great Casino in the Sky, the first youngish female singer that I'd recommend to join their clan is this high-voltage entertainer.  Ms. Genecco is deeply rooted in the early 1960s, the colorful last gasp of the era of swingin' lovers, and, as such, draws equally from Louis Prima and Sammy Davis on one hand and Ray Charles and Elvis on the other.  On the last Tuesday of each month, she and her three horns and five rhythm put on an unstoppable juggernaut of a set at the Iridium, with one hard-hitting swinger after another, pausing only for what she describes as a mandatory 'two-ballad maximum.'  The calendar may say Dec. 28, but Ms. Genecco makes every show seem like New Year's Eve." 

$25 plus $10 food/bev min.

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