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Kimmel Center Presents

Ramsey Lewis and John Pizzarelli: Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Nat King Cole Tribute

Friday
Feb 26, 2016
8:00 PM
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Nat King Cole's smoky, smooth vocals spawned a long string of solid hits starting with "Straighten Up And Fly Right" in 1943. As a singer, Cole was called "the best friend a song ever had," but he was essentially a jazz performer at heart: even his later pop hits boast piano technique, vocal phrasings, and lush orchestrations that are indebted to his early roots in jazz. NEA Jazz Master pianist Ramsey Lewis and guitarist-vocalist John Pizzarelli join forces to pay homage to the titan of 1950s vocal pop, performing favorites including 'Route 66,' 'Mona Lisa,' 'Unforgettable,' and more...!

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Pizzarelli remains a master of Nat King Cole cool, swinging such standards as 'Just In Time.'" —The Seattle Times

"Lewis understands what people want from a piece of music…he remains one of jazz's most broadly popular figures, yet still holds on to an unshakeable degree of respectability." —BBC

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