MARILYN MAYE RETURNS
FOR LONG-AWAITED EXTENDED ENGAGEMENT
Marilyn Maye, the great
RCA recording star (7 albums and 34 singles) who holds the singer's
record of appearances (an amazing 76 times) on "The Tonight Show
Starring Johnny Carson, returns to New York for her first extended
club date here since she played Michael's Pub. She will be performing
her new show "An Evening with Marilyn Maye" featuring some of Maye's
all-time favorite songs, at THE METROPOLITAN ROOM (34 West 22nd
Street, NYC - 212-206-0440 - http://www.metropolitanroom.com/
) with opening night on Thursday March 22nd at 8:00 pm with shows
Thursdays through Sundays through April 1st for a total of 14 shows.
Showtimes vary so consult the METROPOLITAN ROOM website for details.
Marilyn is accompanied by the brilliant Billy Stritch, pianist/conductor,
Tom Hubbard, bassist and Jim Eklof, drummer.
Marilyn's recording of "Too Late Now" was chosen by the Smithsonian
Collection of Recordings as one of the 110 best songs and recordings
during the first six decades of the 20th Century. She joins the
other notable stars in a 5 cd set released by the Smithsonian, the
"American Popular Song".
Marilyn Maye's career is a litany of honors, awards, and landmark
achievements. She has performed in cabarets and theaters, regularly
on nearly all major, national live performance television shows;
from Monte Carlo for the late Princess Grace to New York's famed
Lincoln Center for the Manhattan's musical elite. All of it a long
way from the regional orchestras in midwestern towns where she began.
Marilyn was a singer from the start, performing at age 7; she had
her own radio show at age 14, during her high school days. Then
she began her career and went on the road, performing in clubs and
singing with local orchestras that would make history in the Kansas
City big band era. Such was her rise to popularity that Maye appears
with the likes of Count Basie, Charlie Bird Parker, Big Joe Turner
- immortals of the Kansas City music scene in the book Kansas City
Jazz, from Ragtime to Bebop: A History (Driggs/ Haddix, Oxford University
Press).
Maye is a Grammy nominee, recipient of the coveted Jazz Heritage
Award, the Kansas City Jazz Ambassador's Award of Excellence, Elder
Statesmen of Jazz Award, and Lifetime Achievement recipient of both
the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame and Kansas City's CODA Jazz Fund.
Marilyn Maye and multiple Grammy Award-winner Pat Metheny were named
Official Jazz Legends by The American Jazz Museum - joining such
greats as Count Basie, Big Joe Turner and the immortal Charlie Bird
Parker. Marilyn Maye's place in popular music history was assured
when The Arts Council of The Smithsonian Institution selected the
110 Best American Compositions of the Twentieth Century. Then, from
all of the recordings of each awarded composition, they went on
to choose the best single performance of each song. As the result,
such greats as Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole,
Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, and Marilyn Maye (for her RCA Lamp
Is Low recording of Lerner and Lane's "Too Late Now") emerged as
the historic Best Performers of the Best Compositions of the Twentieth
Century ... Just as Johnny Carson had said, The Best of The Best!
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