The McCallum Theatre Presents Musical Renaissance Man Steve Tyrell
By: David Green Feb. 27, 2019
The McCallum Theatre and Jim "FITZ" Fitzgerald co-present Steve Tyrell on Saturday, March 9, at 8:00pm as part of the Fitz's Jazz Café at the McCallum series. A McCallum Theatre regular for more than fifteen years, Steve reinvents and re-popularizes classic pop standards for a modern audience. Grammy Award winning producer and vocalist Steve Tyrell is the definition of a Renaissance man. In his nearly five decades in the music business, he has achieved success as a singer, songwriter, producer, music supervisor, and most recently, radio host.
His breakthrough performances in Father of the Bride and Father of the Bride II helped Steve reinvent and re-popularize classic pop standards for a modern-day audience. His many hits, including "The Way You Look Tonight," "The Simple Life," "Crush On You," and "The Sunny Side of The Street," have launched millions of romances and been played at thousands of weddings, including Chelsea Clinton's.
As an artist, all nine of his American Standards albums have achieved Top 5 status on Billboard's Jazz charts. His first album, A New Standard, was among the best-selling jazz albums for more than five years. Steve's most recent albums include That Lovin' Feelin' (2015) which debuted in the Top 5, and A Song for You (2018), featuring love songs originally sung by artists such as Van Morrison, Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer.
In 2015, Steve added radio host to his long line of credits. Every Monday through Friday, he can be heard on "The Steve Tyrell Show," from 5PM to 8PM/PT on KJAZZ 88.1 in Los Angeles and online at jazzandblues.org.
Steve has sung for Heads of State, including Presidents Bush and Clinton, Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Santos of Colombia, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. In 2014, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales invited Steve and his band for a command performance at Buckingham Palace.
Frank Sinatra's family has long embraced Steve and his music. Together with Quincy Jones, they handpicked Steve to be the featured performer with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra at their season opening concert in which Frank Sinatra was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame. Also at the request of the Sinatra family, he reprised that performance at Carnegie Hall. This was one of the rare times the family has reached into the vault of original Sinatra arrangements to share them with another artist.
Although Steve tours mainly with his band, he also enjoys playing with renowned international orchestras. He has performed multiple times with The Boston Pops, The New York Pops, The Nashville Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, and The Houston Symphony, among many others.
In 2005, after the passing of the legendary Bobby Short, Steve was asked by New York City's Cafe Carlyle to take over their revered holiday season of November and December, which Mr. Short had not missed for 36 years.
Steve's work in the studio as a record producer has included collaborations with such diverse and legendary artists as Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, Ray Charles, Linda Ronstadt, Aaron Neville, Bonnie Raitt, Blood Sweat and Tears, Mary J Blige, Chris Botti, Dave Koz, Dolly Parton, Smokey Robinson, Burt Bacharach, Bette Midler, and Stevie Wonder, among many others. He produced Woody Allen's classic comedy album Woody Allen - Stand Up Comic, as well as an album with the late Andy Griffith, which won the Grammy in 1995 for Gospel Album of the Year.
As a music supervisor and music producer for film and TV, Steve has worked with such distinguished directors as Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Nancy Meyers, Steven Soderbergh, Charles Shyer, and Hugh Wilson. His song "How Do You Talk To An Angel," written and produced for Aaron Spelling's Fox television series "The Heights", was a #1 hit on Billboards Top 100 Pop Charts.
In addition to being a Grammy winner, Steve is a Daytime Emmy Award winner and has earned two Prime Time Emmy nominations. He's garnered three Ace Nominations; the 2004 American Society of Young Musicians All That Jazz Award; a 2004 The Wellness Community Human Spirit Award; a 2006 Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award; 2008 Los Angeles Jazz Society's Jazz Vocalist of the Year; and 2013 City of Hope's Goodwill Ambassador Award. His productions have earned over 11 Grammy Awards themselves. The music he produced for the children's special "Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue," which aired on all three major networks simultaneously, was given a special certificate of recognition by the Emmys.
This performance is sponsored by United American Mortgage, Studio Dentistry and CBS Local 2.
Tickets for this performance are priced at $88, $78, $58 and $48 . Tickets are available at the Theatre's website at www.mccallumtheatre.com or by calling the McCallum Theatre Box Office at (760) 340-2787.
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