Check out the opening night photos below! Husband-and wife duo John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey make their annual fall pilgrimage to Cafe Carlyle with this all-new show, November 5-16. In this show (their annual fall engagement at Cafe Carlyle) they celebrate the collaboration of Stephen Sondheim and Hal Prince.
John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey started their set with Stephen Sondheim's "The Little Things You Do Together" from COMPANY but their performance is more about the big, intricate and intelligent things they do together musically. Save the Bones for Henry Jones ('Cause Henry Don't Eat Meat) 11.
The 6-panel CD digipak includes artist photos and an artist note. John will be touring a celebration of Nat King Cole’s music for his centennial in 2019. While plenty of jazz greats have influenced his work, Cole has been Pizzarelli’s hero and foundation over the last 25 years. Now he honors the legendary singer Nat King Cole with a selection of his classics. Ghostlight Records 2019 A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF NAT KING COLE World-renowned guitarist and singer JOHN PIZZARELLI has established himself as a prime contemporary interpreter of the Great American Songbook and beyond, with a repertoire that includes Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and the Beatles. But there was something extraordinary in the sound of just the two guitars and I was determined to keep that sound at the center of the whole project.” – James Taylor My usual MO is to show my changes to a piano player, who takes the arrangement to the band. We had way too much fun but managed to record a couple of basic keepers each day for two weeks in the Fall of 2017.
These introductions are often left out when people cover the standards but we kept as many as we could for the novelty of it. Several of them begin with what used to be called verses: a few bars, often out of time, to ramp into the tune. I’d show him what changes I had found for a handful of songs and we’d work up the arrangements. I asked John to come out to Western Massachusetts, where I live and do my recording in a big barn in the middle of the forest, to help me put down some tracks. Like his father, Bucky, he is a master guitarist and a casual, matter-of-fact genius. Pre-order the album here: “My collaborator, John Pizzarelli, is a living encyclopedia of the best popular music that the West has ever produced. Recorded in James's home studio, TheBarn, and produced by Dave O'Donnell, John Pizzarelli and James, American Standard includes James re-imagining some of the 20th century's most beloved songs and making them his own.
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