Hal Willner's I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues? January 27, 2010

Celebrated music producer Hal Willner is credited with creating the modern tribute concert. For the 'American Songbook' series he's put together a one-evening musical exploration of David Lehman's book, 'A Fine Romance' (Nextbook Press.) The book shows how the American Songbook is largely the work of Jewish songwriters, so Rufus Wainwright, Bill Frisell and others will perform songs by Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, et al., arranged by musicians/composers including Steven Bernstein, Van Dyke Parks, and Roy Nathanson.