The New Yorkers : “Tin Pan Alley” Great Jazz Standards • Crooner
Tom McGuire (voc); Mathieu De Wit (p); Lieven Venken (dr); Ramon van Merkenstein (b)
Tom MacGuire and the New-Yorkers take us back to Tin Pan Alley, the stretch of West 28th Street in Manhattan where, a century ago, the sound of pianos spilled out onto the street and helped shape the American music industry.
From those tiny piano rooms came some of the songs that would define an era. This concert celebrates that golden age of melody, when composers such as Arlen, Berlin, Gershwin, Kern and Porter wrote the tunes that became the backbone of jazz, musical theatre and Hollywood — and, in time, the heart of the Great American Songbook.
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With Tom MacGuire and the New-Yorkers, step into the world of Tin Pan Alley — the birthplace of so much of America’s popular music.
A century on, the songs of Arlen, Berlin, Gershwin, Kern and Porter still swing, seduce and endure. From vaudeville to Broadway to Hollywood, this is the music that helped shape the Great American Songbook.