LINCOLN CENTER

Jazz at Lincoln Center
The Music of Cole Porter

The Appel Room in the Time Warner Center is a special place on this Earth.  It is the best of venues with the best of talents.  It is a treat to attend a performance there.

"Michael Feinstein focuses on the genius of Cole Porter, who, he notes, "was in that rare echelon of songwriters who supplied both words and music." Feinstein himself is ideally suited to interpret Porter's archly comic, ambiguous, pointed lyrics, and to execute his memorable melodies, several dozen of which have inspired generations of jazzfolk to improvise at the highest level. "Mr. Porter didn't go out and get loaded because of an arrangement somebody else made of his music," Feinstein quotes Frank Sinatra. "It made no difference to him, as long as the song was done in its entirety." Marilyn Maye, Denzal Sinclair,Kate Davis, and Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks join Feinstein to bring Porter's music to life."