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Emily Asher's Garden Party at
Courtesy of Emily Asher | Posted on December 10, 2013
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Sat, January 11, 2014
8pm
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Led by Asher's tenacious trombone and sweet vocals, this all-star ensemble from New York City's vibrant early jazz scene presents a hot and charming celebration of one of the first great American singer-songwriters, Hoagy Carmichael. A joyful evening of original songs and reverently re-imagined arrangements of Carmichael classics such as "Startdust," “Up A Lazy River” and "Georgia On My Mind” will satisfy the most traditional jazz enthusiast to the modern jazz afficianado. The Wall Street Journal calls Emily Asher's Garden Party "a deliberately prosaic name deviously calculated to describe a very exciting combo” and explains: “In traditional jazz, the trombone comes closest to the human voice, although up to now it's rarely been cast as a distinctly female voice… Ms...