CONTENT PART 3

CONTENTS. 2nd Edition

NEW YORK'S ENTERTAINMENT/NIGHTLIFE

199.NEW YORK 12 BEST JAZZ, CABARET NIGHTLIFE VENUES. Read

202.NEW YORK JAZZ CLASSY ENTERTAINERS: Daryl Sherman redefines romanticism in contemporary Jazz!! Although she is relatively a “new” leading presence of the new generation of singers and pianists, Daryl Sherman has been already recognized by peers and critics as one of the brightest shining star of the contempo jazz artists caravan. Read

203.NEW YORK'S MUSIC MEGA ENTREPRENEURS: PORTRAIT OF A VERY SUCCESSFUL MUSIC SONGWRITER AND PRODUCER. Marjorie Maye Made It Big Time In the Recording Industry! Maye wrote and composed some of the world’s best lyrics and music for artists ranging from Celine Dion to SClub7. Her Nikki Webster’s single “Strawberry Kisses” slammed into the Australian charts at Number 2, was declared gold in a week, then declared platinum not long after. Read

209.CABARET VILLE RECOMMENDS

Do you want to have good time? See a great show? Listen to good music? Hear or see the best singers and entertainers in town? Check out these...Read

211.LIFESTYLE OF THE STARS AND DIVAS

211.Lifestyle of the stars: Visiting Kim Novak. "What would I be doing if I still lived here?" Kim Novak mused. She supplied her own answer: "I'd be spending my afternoons shopping on Rodeo Drive." Instead, she has chosen to live in a wooded paradise near Ashland, Ore. Called Windsong, it's a place she and her husband, Bob Malloy, share with golden eagles, geese, deer, elk and a host of other wild fauna, not to mention a barnyard full of farm animals. Read

213-THE ORIGIN AND ROOTS OF JAZZ

213-243.THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC, JAZZ, FOLK AND GOSPEL SPIRITUALS FROM THE 17th CENTURY TO PRESENT. History and Early Origin of American Music, American Song, American Composers and American Singers from the Colonial Era to the 21st century. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR /POST-COLONIAL ERA MUSIC AND SONGS. EARLY AMERICAN SCHOOLS “CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND VOICE”. Read

244.CABARET, JAZZ & MUSIC TRIVIA.

How good are you? How much do you know about music, cabaret and Jazz? Easy to figure it out. Can you identify these people? Read

245.CLASSIFIEDS AND ADS. Read

248.CDs CLASSIFIEDS AND ADS. Read

249-250.CABARET JAZZ THEATER OF THE MONTH:

THE MIDLAND THEATER, A NATIONAL TREASURE! The Midland Theater is a magnificent and monumental accomplishment in the world of entertainment, Jazz and cabaret. Rich in traditions, quality performances and selection of artists and performers. The Midland Theatre serves as a vibrant and effective community gathering place for cultural and artistic events. Read

251.WORLD OF JAZZ, POP AND ROCK:

David Bowie THE BEST MUSICIANS AND TOP BANDS IN GREAT BRITAIN TODAY. Homegrown music is more exciting than at any time since Britpop. Who can we thank for this? Our panel of critics names - and rates for sound, songs, gigs, style and attitude - the most influential contemporary acts. Read

AMERICAN DIVAS:

258.REBECCA SPENCER: THE WORLD OF AN AMERICA DIVA

Rebecca Spencer was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, USA, and raised in Levittown, a suburb of Pennsylvania. Her parents loved the arts, music and creative talents. They served their country with pride and exemplary devotion.. Her father graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served on submarines in WW II. Later on, he worked for the Rhom and Haas plastics company until retirement. Her mother attended Arcadia College in Philadelphia, as a nutritionist. Read

261-271.Grande Dame Raquel Bitton. Between Edith Piaf, Raquel Bitton and the French American Cabaret. Forget ALL the cabaret singers in America, when it comes to AUTHENTIC PARISIAN CABARET-CONCERT! Bitton is the REAL THING! Nobody, absolutely nobody can come close to her. She is the absolute super vedette of the French Song! Read

WORLD OF FRENCH CABARET: SUPER DIVAS AND DIVOS

272-277.World Cabaret Super Diva and Divo! MAURICE CHEVALIER, MISTINGUET... AND THEIR TIMES. In 1918, the first world war constant bombardments forced « Le Casino de Paris » to close its doors. Around the end of the war, the Casino resumed its operations and offered a sensational show to inaugurate and celebrate its comeback. The two headliners were Maurice Chevalier and Mistinguett. It was an obvious choice. Read

278 -281CAROLINE NIN; THE REBELLIOUS PRIESTESS, PHILOSOPHER AND DIVA OF THE PARISIAN CABARET! To fully understand Caroline Nin, the cabaret enigma, the woman and the "Femme Fatale", the psyche and inner world of Nin which contains and transcends one million worlds of visions, fantasies, shadows and lights of a golden vanished era and maybe a new and daring one to discover....YOU GOT to adore the scent of a mysterious woman. Read

REVISITING CABARET AND JAZZ GREATS

A picture of Wesla and Hillary Clinton at the Whitehouse 284-287.Wesla Whitfield, The American Signature Chanteuse. Wesla Whitfield's artistic longevity reached audiences and people of all walks of like who either never witnessed that vanished golden era, or were never brought up to appreciate it. Thanks to Wesla's multi-dimensional and ever evolving talent, she was able to transcend dogmatic rules and traditional performances pre-requites, and reach for older, old, young and younger audiences by incorporating in her repertoire the music of yesteryears nourished with a modern flair and a tempo-ambiance, today's audience tend to prefer. Read

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AND BIG BAND NOSTALGIA IN THE U.K.

288-292. MIKE AND KATE WESTBROOK. The "Guardian" called Mr Mike Westbrook "a giant of contemporary music". There are no limits and no boundaries to the creativity, innovative talents, genius and astonishing artistic energy of Mr Mike Westbrook and Ms Kate Westbrook. They are simply overwhelming and magical. Probably they have done and accomplished everything which could be done, imagined, to be seen, to be moved, composed, written, designed, produced, rehearsed, created, existed or to exist and imagine on stage, in theater, in music, in dance and performing arts. Nothing more or less is left to do for the Westbrooks. Read

293.IN THE CRITIC'S CORNER

293-295.REVIEWING THE REVIEWER AND CRITIQUING THE CRITIC. REVIEWING THE REVIEWER AND CRITIQUING THE CRITIC, That Right! For Jami Bernard is a critic and a reviewer. This is what she does for a living. This is a fabulous woman. Jami Bernard is bright with a blaze intellectualism but, she remains down to earth. SHE flirts with a tragicomic writing style but she freezes and frees her criticism with substance and human depth. Jami Bernard is a cinema critic with a blend of Bernard Shaw satirico-humoristic flair, a well-aged Cognac Napoleon, and an Emile Zola's verita humana with a New York twist. New Yorkers love her column in the New York Daily News. Read

296-303.WHO IS THE BEST ON STAGE CABARET PERFORMER? WHO WAS OR IS THE BEST SALLY BOWLES?

296-303. So many readers in the UK asked me who is the best cabaret entertainer in the United States? And I replied: "There is no such thing as the best cabaret entertainer!" For the world of cabaret is immense and so is its personification on stage. Some artists are singers, purely singers with occasional appearances on the screen or on the tube, but they are typically cabaret singers, such as Amanda McBroom, Andrea Marcovicci, Anna Bergman, Caroline Nin et al. Others are cabaret concert artists like Barbara Cook, Kate Westbrook...Read

DEBORAH GIBSON: Deborah Gibson started her career at a young age. She got experience in theater by playing roles in plays like "A Christmas Carol", "Annie" and "Mickey Mouse and Friends". At age 12, she started songwriting seriously. She was part of the Metropolitan Opera for several years, doing opera's like "Hansel und Gretel", "La Boheme" and "Le Rossignol", some of which meant singing in a foreign language. Read

JANE LEEVES: Jane Leeves saw the light on on April 18 1962 in London. However, Jane grew up in the sleepy town of East Grinstead, Sussex (about 30 miles from London). Like so many great actresses, the seed of Jane's success was sewn at an early age. "I knew from the age of five that I wanted to be an actor." In her teenage years, Jane modeled and was a very keen dancer, until a knee injury in 1981 forced her to pursue her acting talents and partake in less strenuous dancing. Read

GINA GERSHON: Gina awas born on June 10, 1962 at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California....the youngest of 5 children. She was three weeks early...and says that is why she is so impatient today! Her ethnic background is French, Russian, and Dutch, and says "I could be the Meryl Streep of the Mediterranean world!" Read

JAZZ IN THE U.K.

305.311.Maximillien de Lafayette interviews Claire Martin, England's first lady of Jazz. Claire: " My friends say I am 50 per cent tart and 50 per cent nun." Read

312-315.AMERICAN CABARET VERSUS EUROPEAN CABARET: CABARET is a French product. It cannot be authentically duplicated, franchised or Americanized, no matter, how talented and creative an American female artist is. It can be Americanized, Africanized, Middle Easternized or even “nationalized”, but it would never be the same, for it will loose its original cache and character. Cabaret is for the French what hamburger, ketchup, stocks, mortgages, Campbell Soup Cans, blue jeans, patriotism, politics, college basketball, courage and football are for the Americans. Read

JAZZ, CABARET AND POP STARS IN NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA

317.NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA’S CABARET, JAZZ AND POP LEADING STARS: Do the French, German, British and American chanteuses maintain the monopoly of cabaret excellence and world-class performance? Not necessarily. Canada, New Zealand and Australia gave to the world remarkable Opera, Pop and Cabaret singers. So, cabaret is no longer a French property. And Jazz is no longer an American monopoly. Foreign singers from various parts of the world are now challenging American Jazz and pop singers. The leading figures are...Read

319.THE CABARET-JAZZ DIVAS OF CANADA: Joelle Rabu, Joelle Rabu, Deborah Boiley, Lynne Tremblay. Profile of Lynn Tremblay and her interview with Maximillien de Lafayette. Read

324-327.BETWEEN CABARET AND OPERA: Talking about Cabaret without referring to Opera would be a musical betrayal, for OPERA originated folk music and cabaret repertoires. Contrary to the general belief, Opera did not come to life as a CLASSICAL ART PLATFORM. It was created in the streets and tavernas of small cities and towns in Italy, as well as in small "Relais" and "boites de plaisance" in France to entertain the high society and the middle society as well. In many small Italian villages, Opera was the favorite musical attraction and form of entertainment for the farmers, peasants and even the poor class. Thus, paying homage to the early Divas of the American Opera and including them in this work is very a propos. Read

329-331.EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE A JAZZ SINGER. THE BEST OF JAZZ/POP. It seems everybody wants to be a jazz singer nowadays. People of all ages turn up at 'open mic' sessions to perform their party piece. But why this sudden eruption of would-be vocalists? Maybe because singing looks easier than playing an instrument, although it isn't. Or maybe it's because there are so many good jazz singers in Britain to inspire them. There's Stacey Kent, Tina May, Claire Martin, Clare Teal, Barb Jungr, Anita Wardell, Sheena Davis, Cathie Rae and plenty more. Until recently, the guys had fewer role-models, but then along came Jamie Cullum whose career received a mighty boost when he was signed by Universal. Read

332-343. CAROL WELSMAN:

A DIVA FOR ALL SEASONS. Carol Welsman is more than a world class Jazz-Cabaret singer, songwriter, pianist and entertainer. She is a vocal-musical perfection. This woman has all the ingredients of the ultimate diva. Welsman's intelligence, multi talent, class, beauty, musical virtuosity, and mesmerizing voice set her apart from all the others. Read

344.NEWSMAKERS & CELEBRITIES By Erica Soderholm.

Country music stars the Dixie Chicks have cancelled some US tour dates after slow ticket sales. Concert industry magazine Pollstar says shows have been dropped in Republican states such as Oklahoma and Tennessee. The group faced a backlash in 2003 after singer Natalie Maines said the band were "ashamed" President Bush is from their home state of Texas. Read

Janis Mann Revisited. Jazz singer extraordinaire Janis Mann has been revisited again by fans and critics on the front pages of magazines and news agencies in the United States and England. You could say she is making a big buzz. Read

R&B star Beyonce Knowles is holding open auditions for an all-girl band to play on her forthcoming world tour. Read

Actor Sir Sean Connery has been honored in Hollywood with the American Film Institute's annual lifetime achievement award in Los Angeles. Read

345-346.INTERVIEW WITH A NEW YORK DIVA: QUINN LEMLEY. She is is stunning with a talent brighter than the lights of Times Square. Classy, innovative, romantic with that mesmerizing femme fatale aura. She echoes the good music of that vanished golden era of Hollywood. Read

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347-348. A VISIT WITH AUTHOR MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.

Besides being very authoritative and extremely informative, the new book Entertainment Divas Cabaret Jazz Then And Now has a very special touch: "giving a public recognition and a wider exposure to talented singers who need a break. The public must become aware of their great and hidden talents. This is my job. Writing about them and introducing them to thousands and thousands of readers around the globe is a responsibility I take very seriously." explained Maximillien de Lafayette. Read

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