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Catch Vocalist Betty Buckley with Pianist Kenny Werner Live |
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Betty Buckley and Kenny Werner
July 17, 2007 @ 8 pm and 10:30 pm
Admission: $35 table / $20 bar ; $5 minimum
Blue Note
131 West 3rd Street
212-475-8592
bluenotejazz.com
bettybuckley.com
kennywerner.com
 Betty Buckley is a renowned vocalist.  Kenny Werner at his piano.
Tony Award winner Buckley ("Sunset Boulevard", "Cats") will be returning to the Blue Note for the second time with Werner and her trio. Don't miss the chance to see this leading lady forgo the big stage in favor of the intimate setting at one of the world's finest jazz club and restaurant.
Buckley won a Tony Award for her performance as Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cats." She received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a musical in the 1997-98 Broadway season for her performance as Hesione in "Triumph of Love," and an Olivier Award nomination for her interpretation of Norma Desmond in the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Boulevard," which she repeated to more rave reviews in the New York production.
At the age of eleven, Kenny Werner recorded a single with a fifteen-piece orchestra and appeared on television playing stride piano. He attended the Manhattan School of Music as a concert piano major. In 1970, he transferred to the Berklee School of Music.
In 1977, recorded first LP that featured of the music of Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson and George Gershwin and later that year with Charles Mingus on "Something Like A Bird"
In 1996, Werner published a book that has had a major impact on the world titled "Effortless Mastery." It features priceless information about the physical, technical, psychological and spiritual aspects of being an artist. This book continues to help thousands of artists. That has made him in great demand as a teacher and clinician at Universities all over the world. He currently teaches his own classes in technique at New York University.
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