Jane Monheit Sings the Cole Porter Songbook

At Smoke Jazz & Supper Club, vocalist Jane Monheit returns to the Cole Porter canon, drawing from a body of songs that moved between Broadway, Hollywood, and the Manhattan nightclub circuit that helped define American popular music. Porter’s writing is built on internal rhyme, precise rhythm, and a certain social detail that jazz musicians have long treated as standard repertoire. Monheit’s approach keeps the lyric in front, letting phrasing and clarity do most of the work. In New York, where many of these songs first circulated, the program reads as local musical history in performance.