John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey Returns to Cafe Carlyle, Now thru 11/22

Café Carlyle will welcome back acclaimed husband-and-wife duo John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey for a four-week engagement, today, October 28 - November 22. They'll make their annual fall pilgrimage to The Carlyle with an all-new show entitled Grown Up Songs. Grown Up Songs features sophisticated selections for the most sophisticated venue in New York City with music by Stephen Sondheim, Johnny Mercer, Paul McCartney, Alan Jay Lerner, Adam Guettel, Billy Joel and more.

Performances will take place Tuesday - Friday at 8:45pm; and Saturday at 8:45pm & 10:45pm. Reservations made by phone at 212.744.1600 are $105 ($155 for premium seating, $55 for bar seating) Tuesday - Thursday; $135 ($185 for premium seating, $70 for bar seating) for Saturday; $115 ($165 for premium seating, $65 for bar seating) on Friday and the Saturday late show. Reservations made online at www.ticketweb.com are $100 ($150 for premium seating) Tuesday - Thursday; $130 ($180 for premium seating) for Saturday; $110 ($160 for premium seating) on Friday and the Saturday late show. Café Carlyle is located in The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel (35 East 76th Street, at Madison Avenue).

Last year, The New York Times called John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey's hit show, Children and Art, "wonderful." The Village Voice declared that "they're one of the best acts in town anytime, anywhere." At the Carlyle, they will be joined by a band including Kevin Kanner on drums, Martin Pizzarelli on double bass and Konrad Paszkudzki on piano. As always, John Pizzarelli will play guitar.

As a singer and guitarist, John Pizzarelli has been entertaining audiences for over 20 years. Using the Great American Songbook as a touchstone, Pizzarelli has made 20 albums as a solo artist. Themes of these albums range from Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra (for whom he opened in 1993), Antonio Carlos Jobim, Richard Rodgers and The Beatles. His 2010 release, Rockin' in Rhythm: A Tribute to Duke Ellington (Telarc), went to #1 on the Jazz Week Jazz charts.

In 2009, Pizzarelli was the 11th artist to receive the Ella Fitzgerald Award, established in 1999 for the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Jazz Festival and conferred in recognition of the versatility, improvisational originality and quality of the repertoire of a jazz singer renowned on the international scene. Past winners have included Harry Connick Jr., Diana Krall and Tony Bennett.

Mr. Pizzarelli has been featured on over 40 albums as a sideman with such greats as diverse as Rosemary Clooney, James Taylor, Rikki Lee Jones, Dave Van Ronk and Natalie Cole.

Over the years he has performed in concert with his father, legendary jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli, as well as Zoot Sims, Ray Brown, Slam Stewart, Buddy DeFranco, Kenny Davern, Dave McKenna, Milt Hinton, the Count Basie Orchestra and others.

Pizzarelli has a syndicated radio show entitled "Radio Deluxe" that he hosts with his wife, Broadway actress and singer, Jessica Molaskey from high atop Lexington Avenue in the deluxe living room, heard every weekend in over 70 cities around the US and Canada.

Jessica Molaskey's voice has been compared to Peggy Lee, Chris Connor, k.d. lang and even Chet Baker. She has sung in concert from Lincoln Center to Carnegie Hall, and has had the great honor of performing at the Montreal Jazz festival. Jessica 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.

Jessica's third solo album, Make Believe, was given an "A" ranking and called "wondrous" by the Philadelphia Daily News on the day of its release. Her debut album, Pentimento, was proclaimed one of the top five entertainment records by Amazon.com for 2002. Show Business Weekly called her second solo album, A Good Day, "the best female vocal CD of 2003." Her latest, A Kiss to Build a Dream On, was released on Arbors Records in November 2008.

She is a veteran of a dozen Broadway shows, most recently the Roundabout Theatre's recent revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George at Studio 54. Other Broadway credits include the musical, A Man of No Importance at Lincoln Center, written by Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty; Parade (directed by Hal Prince), Dream, Tommy, Crazy For You, Les Miserables, City of Angels, Chess, Cats and Oklahoma! Jessica has premiered music written by Ricky Ian Gordon, Adam Guettel, Jason Robert Brown, Michael John LaChiusa, and Stephen Sondheim.

Jessica 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. Ms. McDonald performed Jessica'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 Nonesuch release.

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