Featured Performers

• Shenel Johns, vocals
• Robbie Lee, vocals, piano
• Benny Benack III, trumpet, vocals

Program

• Nat King COLE: L-O-V-E

• Ella FITZGERALD and Louis ARMSTRONG: The Nearness of You

• Nat King COLE: Sweet Lorraine

• Mel TORMÉ: That's All

• Frank SINATRA: The Way You Look Tonight

• Tony BENNETT: I Left My Heart in San Francisco

• Frank SINATRA: Come Fly With Me

• Bobby DARIN: Mack The Knife

• Dinah WASHINGTON: Cry Me a River

• I Can't Give You Anything But Love

• Billie HOLIDAY: God Bless the Child

• Mel TORMÉ and Ella FITZGERALD: Lullaby of Birdland

• Andy WILLIAMS and Nancy WILSON: On a Clear Day

• Louis ARMSTRONG & Ella FITZGERALD: They Can't Take That Away From Me

Great American Crooners brings the golden age of crooning to life with timeless classics and captivating stories of music legends Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Bobby Darin. Join Robbie Lee and Shenel Johns (who have both graced Jazz at Lincoln Center’s stages) and Benny Benack III (Downbeat’s #1 Rising Star Male Vocalist) for an unforgettable evening of velvety ballads and sentimental serenades. 

Relive classics like “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” “Misty,” “I Only Have Eyes for You,” and “Moon River,” performed with style, flair, and world-class talent. Experience the magic of these legendary crooners, told through music and true stories. 

He may be young—only at the tail end of his twenties, believe it or not—but he seriously has his act together in every way, shape and form, as this album proves.

allaboutjazz.com (on Benny Benack III)

Sponsors

Part of the Eclectic Orange Series
sponsored by the Jelinek Family Trust