Songbook Sundays: Cole Porter
About This Event
Songbook Sundays at Dizzy's Club focuses on the songs of Cole Porter, presenting a program built around his catalogue. Porter, an American composer and songwriter whose witty, urbane lyrics and Broadway and Hollywood scores yielded many jazz standards, supplies the repertoire that performers will interpret in a jazz context.
About the Artists
Songbook Sundays
Songbook Sundays is a jazz artist heard at Dizzy’s Club in New York City, presenting programs built around the American songbook. Recent sets have centered on Cole Porter, drawing from his Broadway and Hollywood writing and its afterlife as jazz repertoire.
Cole Porter
Cole Porter is an American composer and songwriter whose Broadway and film work left a deep imprint on the jazz repertoire. In New York City, his catalog is frequently revisited at Dizzy’s Club, including programs like Songbook Sundays built around his songs.