Friday, May 3 & Saturday, May 4 ~ 2013
Schuster Center, 8 pm
NEAL GITTLEMAN conductor
JOHN PIZZARELLI vocals/guitar WEBSITE
MARTIN PIZZARELLI bass
LARRY FULLER piano
TONY TEDESCO drums
John Pizzarelli, world-renowned jazz guitarist and singer, has been called “Hip with a wink” by Town & Country, “madly creative” by the Los Angeles Times and “the genial genius of the guitar” by The Toronto Star.
After his recent smash success with the Boston Pops, he was hailed by the Boston Globe for “reinvigorating the Great American Songbook and re-popularizing jazz.” And the Seattle Times called him “a tour de force” and “a rare entertainer of the old school.” Before a recent show in the northwest, the local paper quipped “John Pizzarelli is so impossibly cool, he shouldn’t be legally allowed to enter Oregon.”
Using performers like Nat “King” Cole, Frank Sinatra and Joao Gilberto and the songs of composers from Richard Rodgers, George Gershwin to James Taylor, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Lennon & McCartney as touchstones, John Pizzarelli has established himself as one of the prime interpreters of the Great American Songbook and beyond, bringing to his work the cool jazz flavor of his brilliant guitar playing and singing.
John and his ensemble join conductor Neal Gittleman and the DPO for a sparkling finish to the 2012-2013 SuperPops Series.
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