"SONGS OF MATT DENNIS AND BOBBY TROUP" AT THE TRIAD

Stuart G. Sagen & Ray Passman's Vocal Jazz Series presents the "SONGS OF MATT DENNIS AND BOBBY TROUP" featuring Mary Foster Conklin and Mark Winkler, at THE TRIAD (158 West 72nd Street, NYC - 212-787-7921 - http://www.Triadnyc.com/ ) on Saturday, June 12th at 9:00 pm. While the evening will cover the well-known hits of the two composers, Winkler and Conklin also have a few surprises in store, as they swap stories and share some of the less familiar but no-less memorable hipster treasures, like "Lemon Twist" Bobby Troup's sophisticated yet twisted ode to nutrition, and Matt Dennis's noir dark melody "Blues for Breakfast", with lyrics by Jerry Gladstone, among others. Also included will be several Troup/Dennis works, like "Learn to Love", which was written in 1980, and finally recorded by Winkler a month before Dennis's passing in 2002. Ticket price is $15, plus 2-drink minimum.

Matt Dennis and Bobby Troup were two of the very best singer-pianists to come out of the West Coast Cool Jazz Movement of the 1950's. Both played the smoky jazz lounges and upscale supper clubs across the country and their songs were recorded by star performers like Nat King Cole ("Route 66"), Ella Fitzgerald ("Angel Eyes") and Frank Sinatra ("Let's Get Away from It All"). As contemporaries, the two complemented one another: Dennis with his charming smile and easy elegance played more Beatles to the edgier Stones-like, East Coast born hipster Troup. One could not imagine a better addition to this successful vocal jazz series than on Saturday, June 12, when Mark Winkler and Mary Foster Conklin, two upcoming jazz vocalists with a shared passion, present the fruits of their individual labors -- a tribute to two great composers of the post-war, oft-neglected period of the Great American Songbook.

Mark Winkler is an award winning singer/lyricist from California, whose tunes have been covered by such artists as Dianne Reeves, Randy Crawford and Kenny Rankin. His latest recording Mark Winkler sings Bobby Troup was released last summer to critical acclaim. Mary Foster Conklin, a Jersey born, die-hard New Yorker, has one Matt Dennis song recorded on her CD You'd Be Paradise, released in 2001. She has spent most of this past year researching more of the Dennis folio and is currently working on an all-Dennis recording. The two vocalists had corresponded in the past -- there are several Dennis/Troup compositions in existence, so it's obvious that they were destined to cross paths --and when they finally did meet this past winter, the singers jumped at the chance to work together. Accompanying the evening will be pianist/arranger John Dimartino, with bassist Scott Lee, Tony Romano on guitar and Ron Vincent on drums.

 

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