Songbook Sundays, created
\n and hosted by Deborah Grace Winer, will continue August 9 with a Tony
\nBennett Centennial Celebration\u00a0at\u00a0Jazz at Lincoln Center\u2019s Dizzy\u2019s Club.<\/p>\n
Celebrating the late jazz icon will be\u00a0Grammy winner Debby Boone<\/a>, jazz singer Gabrielle Stravelli,\u00a0rising artist David Marino, and Grammy winner Billy Stritch<\/a> (who served as Bennett\u2019s music director), who will also be the evening’s\u00a0music director. Winer will host the 5 PM and 7:30 PM concerts.<\/p>\n The vocalists will be backed by\u00a0Marc MacLean on drums, Caylen Bryant<\/a> on bass,\u00a0and Jacob Chung on saxophone.<\/p>\n Attendees can expect to hear such Bennett classics as “The Best Is Yet to Come,” “The Lady Is a Tramp,” “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” “I’ve Got the World on a String,” and more.<\/p>\n Songbook Sundays,\u00a0now in its fifth year, premiered in\u00a0spring 2022 with Got Gershwin followed by celebrations of Cole
\n Porter, Duke Ellington<\/a>, Irving Berlin<\/a>, Rodgers and Hart, Lerner and
\nLoewe, Fats Waller, Jerome Kern<\/a>, Harold Arlen<\/a>, Cy Coleman<\/a>, Frank
\nLoesser, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer<\/a>, Hoagy Carmichael<\/a>,
\nJule Styne<\/a>, Jimmy Van Heusen, Leonard Bernstein<\/a>,\u00a0and Dorothy Fields<\/a>. It will continue October 4 with a celebration of John\u00a0Kander and Fred\u00a0Ebb.<\/p>\n