Tayla Ferro at Feinstein's At Vitello's

TALYA FERRO

Also featuring
JOHN RODBY on piano
With Mark Stevens -drums
Harvey Newmark – bass

It’s the glorious music of the Harlem Renaissance…. . Music born out of juke joints, speakeasies, and elegant supper clubs during prohibition and the gang wars of the depression. Music which launched the great American jazz era the world over.

TALYA FERRO

Talya Ferro has performed her one woman show in the major venues of every continent on the globe and is proud of several command performances, as well as numerous international television shows, including Barbara Walters, Sabado Gigante, and 38 performances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. She played Margarita, a Shark in the film Westside Story and is remembered in other classic films such as “Sparkle” and “Let’s Do It Again”, in which she co-starred with Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby. Her original hit rendition of the song “Wave” written expressly for her by Antonio Carlos Jobim is now a genuine classic standard. www.talyaferro.com...

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TALYA FERRO

Also featuring
JOHN RODBY on piano
With Mark Stevens -drums
Harvey Newmark – bass

It’s the glorious music of the Harlem Renaissance…. . Music born out of juke joints, speakeasies, and elegant supper clubs during prohibition and the gang wars of the depression. Music which launched the great American jazz era the world over.

TALYA FERRO

Talya Ferro has performed her one woman show in the major venues of every continent on the globe and is proud of several command performances, as well as numerous international television shows, including Barbara Walters, Sabado Gigante, and 38 performances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. She played Margarita, a Shark in the film Westside Story and is remembered in other classic films such as “Sparkle” and “Let’s Do It Again”, in which she co-starred with Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby. Her original hit rendition of the song “Wave” written expressly for her by Antonio Carlos Jobim is now a genuine classic standard. www.talyaferro.com

JOHN RODBY

Emmy Award winner John Rodby has worked extensively in film and television as a composer, keyboardist and arranger. He was musical director for both the Shari Lewis television series “Charlie Horse’s Musical Pizza” and 10 years for the Dinah Shore television show. He is also an accomplished classical pianist and composer and has worked as a pianist-arranger for numerous performers including, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Rita Moreno and Al Martino. He is currently Music-Coordinator for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and will have a CD of his symphonic music released next month on Centaur Records. www.johnrodby.com

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