CABARET VILLE MAGAZINE. P209.
CABARET VILLE RECOMMENDS
Do you want to have good time? See a great show? Listen to good music? Hear or see the best singers and entertainers in town? Check out these...
Photos from L to R: #1. Kathleen Landis. #2. Rebecca Luker.
KATHLEEN
LANDIS at The Cafe Pierre,
2 East 61 Street 61st
Street. NYC. Tues. through Sat. 8:30pm –11:30pm. Fri., and Sat. 8:30pm
– 12:30pm. This is your rendez-vous with class, elegance and romance.
First class.
DARYL SHERMAN (Photo, left) at the piano at THE COCKTAIL TERRACE, The Waldorf Astoria (Park Ave & 49th Street, NYC, Wednesday through Sunday from 5:00 to 8:00 pm.
REBECCA LUKER at FEINSTEIN'S at the Regency Hotel, through May 20th. Dates: Tuesday through Saturday at 8:30 pm with late shows on Friday and Saturday at 11:00 pm.
ALSO RECOMMENDED: John Tartaglia, the Tony-nominated puppeteer from Avenue Q sings and hams it up in his cabaret act, AD-LIBerty, which has already won several awards. At Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette St., nr. Astor Pl., 212-539-8500. 6/13 at 7 p.m. Dominic & The New York Sidewalkers: Best known as Uncle Junior from The Sopranos, Dominic Chianese here serves as the leader of a band playing an eclectic mix of Italian and Spanish music as well as popular American standards, at West Bank Cafe, 407 W. 42nd St., at Ninth Ave., 212-695-6909. Mondays at 8 p.m.; ongoing. CONTINUES NEXT
CHAT WITH MAESTRO BILLY VERPLANCK. Cont'd from P Jazz Greats (P169)
Billy VerPlanck: "A Breath Of Fresh Air" was the first really good ballad I ever wrote with a Jim Pollack lyric.
Q-who got you into ASCAP with your composition and arrangement of "Chicken Shack Boogie"? Billy: Ralph Marterie, which was real nice. It started me off as a composer. And I am very grateful to him for it. That was a very good band and a ball to play with. Q-You wrote hundreds of scores for documentary films, industrial shows, commercials, plus producing, arranging and conducting seventeen CDs for the great Marlene Verplanck, your wife. What is your favorite composition? Billy: Growing Old Gracefully on our first album "A Breath Of Fresh Air" It was the first really good ballad I ever wrote with a Jim Pollack lyric. Q-Did you make money out of it? Billy: No, not really, but I had the great fortune of having the greatest singer of the American Popular Song to sing it, with my arrangement and a great New York orchestra to record it; which led to other wonderful things, and again I am deeply grateful for it. Q-What are you doing now? Billy: Writing new songs and arrangements as I always have everyday of my life. Q-Any regrets in life? Billy: No, Life has been great for me. I am very thankful. Q-The best musical experience in your life? Of course, beside marrying Marlene. Billy: Playing on Tommy Dorsey's Band and being in this wonderful music business.
By Maximillien de Lafayette, London. _______________________________________________
