Banjo Hall of Famer Cynthia Sayer and veteran vocalist René Marie will perform when Jack Kleinsinger’s Highlights In Jazz, continues its 45th season at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 6, at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers St., in New York City, with a special Women In Jazz program.
Featuring the festive multi-dimensional music of Cynthia Sayer and her Joyride Band with clarinetist Adrian Cunningham and the innovative vocal stylings of René Marie, the concert will also showcase International Women in Jazz Youth in Action Award-winning pianist Leonieke Scheuble.
Sayer will be making her third appearance at Highlights In Jazz, New York’s longest-running jazz concert series. Her aptly named Joyride Band features clarinetist Adrian Cunningham, bassist Mike Weatherly, and drummer/washboard percussionist Larry Eagle. Sayer, whose scheduled February Highlights In Jazz concert appearance was snowed out, fills the program slot left open by the recent passing of legendary pianist/vocalist Barbara Carroll.
Sayer first rose to international prominence as a founding member of Woody Allen’s New Orleans Jazz Band. She has been praised in the New York Times for her “drive and virtuosity,” and by pianist Dick Hyman for her shows that “takes us into places where you’d never expect the banjo to be admitted.”
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