Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano at Birdland Jazz Club – New York, NY

Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano at Birdland Jazz Club – New York, NY
Get your tickets to see Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano in New York, NY. Happening on Monday, May 5, 2025 at Birdland Jazz Club. Doors open at 7:00 PM.
Featuring:Sean Smith, bassVito Lesczak, drumsHailed as smart, funny, and utterly delightful and a hotbed of pleasure by The New York Times, ERIC COMSTOCK (piano/voice) and BARBARA FASANO (voice) celebrate Spring by bringing their singular, soulful showmanship home to Birdland. Drawing from an ever-evolving American Songbook Jazz and pop classics by Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen, and Cole Porter to singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Carole King, and Bruce Springsteen, plus surprising gems the married musical couples electrifying combination of warmth, wit, swing, and sensuality have made them the nightclub worlds most celebrated team. Their performances have taken them from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to Saratoga Jazz Festival, Music Mountain Twilight Jazz, Londons Pizza Express, Italys Monteverdi Tuscany, and nightclubs and music festivals across the country. Their new CD, PAINTING THE TOWN (Human Child Records), featuring tenor saxophone legend Houston Person, was released earlier this year to ecstatic reviews: Jersey Jazzs Joe Lang hailed it as New York jazz/cabaret at its best and Cabaret Scenes Jacqueline Parker called it revelatory, haunting, and unforgettable.Every bit as entertaining as they are musically savvy, The New Yorker praises Comstocks expert musicianship and joie de vivre in equal measure. Fasano has been hailed by The New York Times as a lyrically sensitive interpreter with a special affinity for Joni Mitchell and by The New York Post as a gorgeous, soulful singer who has an actors intensity in whatever she sings. Her CDs BUSY BEING FREE and WRITTEN IN THE STARS both won the MAC Award for Major Recording of the Year. Winners of 9 MAC Awards, 5 New York Bistro Awards and the New York Nightlife Award, Eric and Barbara recently received the Donald F. Smith Award from the Mabel Mercer Foundation, acknowledging their artistry.The glamorous couples style is all their own, with a wide choice of material that brings the generations together. Eric and Barbara make all of it fresh, new, spontaneous, and fun and their audiences feel theyve been to a terrific party where the music and the stories have been equally great.In the words of revered jazz critic Ira Gitler, they have it all, and then some artistic, swinging, and superbly entertaining.