Songbook Sundays: Kander & Ebb

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.

John Kander is an American composer whose work sits at the intersection of jazz-inflected songwriting and Broadway craft. Best known for his long partnership with lyricist Fred Ebb, he shaped a run of major stage scores including *Cabaret* and *Chicago*, and helped write the standard “New York, New York.

Fred Ebb was an American lyricist and playwright best known for his long-running partnership with composer John Kander, a body of work that moved easily between Broadway and the wider American songbook.