Guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli has been hailed by the Boston Globe for “reinvigorating the Great American Songbook and re-popularizing jazz.” A perennial favorite at the Emelin, Pizzarelli returns this Spring with a whole new show – and new trio – featuring music from the Broadway stage and the Silver Screen. The evening will feature fresh versions of great standards such as Where or When, Just In Time and As Time Goes By, paired with some newer Broadway songs that include I Love Betsy from Honeymoon in Vegas by Jason Robert Brown, Coffee in a Cardboard Cup by Kander and Ebb. Additionally, the event will feature a selection of more recent movie songs like With a Wink and a Smile from Sleepless in Seattle, When Somebody Loved Me from Toy Story 2, and a rousing suite of songs from Rogers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma. This program fully encompasses almost every decade from the 20’s to today, performed by an impeccable trio that has thrilled the world over with their singular brand of swinging jazz.
“Pizzarelli is innately cool, sly and playful in the mode of his biggest influence, Nat King Cole.” – The New York Times