Pizzarelli and Molaskey to Debut at the Cafe Carlyle

Husband-and-wife team John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey will play the Café Carlyle (located in The Carlyle Hotel, 35 East 76th Street at Madison Avenue) for a four-week debut engagement.

Beginning Tuesday, May 1st and playing through Saturday, May 26th, Mr. and Mrs. Pizzarelli will share the stage and present an evening of Great American standards, romantic ballads and swinging jazz tunes, including songs from their most recent recordings: Mr. Pizzarelli's "Dear Mr. Sinatra" ( Telarc, 2006) and Ms. Molaskey's "Sitting in Limbo" (PS Classics - May 8, 2007).  Mr. Pizzarelli (guitar and vocals) will lead a quartet consisting of younger brother Martin Pizzarelli (bass), Larry Fuller (piano) and Tony Tedesco (drums).  

"John Pizzarelli has cultivated a winning international career by singing classic standards and late-night ballads, and by playing sublime and inventive guitar," according to press notes.  With his father, he is part of the John Pizzarelli Trio. He has recorded as a bandleader for RCA, Chesky, Stash and Novus, and in 1997 appeared in the Broadway musical Dream, a revue of Johnny Mercer songs. Pizzarelli's catalogue of albums includes cycle of torch ballads ("After Hours"), an album featuring originals along with classic jazz and swing ("Our Love is Here to Stay"), and a Christmas collection ("Let's Share Christmas"), as well as "John Pizzarelli Meets the Beatles," "Kisses in the Rain," "Let There Be Love," "The Rare Delight of You," "Live at Birdland," "Knowing You" and "Dear Mr. Sinatra." He has also led a 40-member live orchestra at Radio City Music Hall in Sinatra: His Voice, His World, His Way. He recenty launched "Radio Deluxe with John Pizzarelli," his nationally syndicated radio program, co-hosted with Molaskey.

Molaskey has sung in concert from Lincoln Center to Carnegie Hall, and has had the great honor of performing at the Montreal Jazz festival. She has performed regularly at Feinstein's at the Regency with husband John Pizzarelli, and in 2005 made her sold-out solo debut at the Oak Room at the Algonquin hotel in New York. Due to popular demand, she returned for three weeks in 2006.  Her CDs include "Make Believe" and "Sitting In Limbo," which will be released May 8th.  She is a veteran of a dozen Broadway shows and also appeared Off-Broadway in A Man of No Importance. Broadway credits include Parade, Dream, Tommy, Crazy For You, Les Miserables, City of Angels, Chess, Cats and Oklahoma!. Molaskey has written songs for almost a dozen recordings including the critically acclaimed "Greed", part of a commission for Audra McDonald's Seven Deadly Sins at Carnegie Hall.  McDonald performed Molaskey's composition "Cradle and All" ­ written with Ricky Ian Gordon ­ for the Lincoln Center Songbook Series and recorded it for "Build A Bridge," her 2006 CD from Nonesuch. She can be heard on numerous recordings, including Fine and Dandy, Myths And Hymns, Parade, and Songs For a New World.  She co-hosts the nationally syndicated radio program, Radio Deluxe with John Pizzarelli.

Pizzarelli and Molaskey will perform Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8:45PM with additional shows on Fridays and Saturdays at 10:45PM. There is a $75 music charge Tuesday through Thursday and an $ 85 music charge for both shows on Friday and Saturday.  Bar seating is available ($55 music charge) for all shows. Dinner (not required) is served from 6:30PM.   Every Monday night at 8:45PM (through June 11th), Woody Allen appears with the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band.  There is a $90 music charge. For reservations please call 212-744-1600. For additional information visit www.thecarlyle.com.  Visit www.johnpizzarelli.com or www.jessicamolaskey.com for more information.