the Linda Kosut band in "By Any Other Name" at The RRazz Room

<b><i>“... her song choices and what she does with them that makes a person sit up and say, ‘She's FANTASTIC!’ She's got what ya can't buy ... CHARM” – CABARET HOTLINE

“... commands one’s attention ... a vocal performance which deserves mention" - LA JAZZ SCENE

... deserved a far longer run” – LOS ANGELES TIMES </b></i>

San Francisco favorite and <b>Bistro/BMI Award-winning jazz & cabaret vocalist Linda Kosut </b>brings her brand new show <b>“By Any Other Name”</b> to San Francisco’s RRazz Room. Lead by musical director John Simon, Linda’s band has some of the Bay Area’s top musicians including Tom Shader on bass, John Mader on drums and Tony Malfatti, on horns....

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<b><i>“... her song choices and what she does with them that makes a person sit up and say, ‘She's FANTASTIC!’ She's got what ya can't buy ... CHARM” – CABARET HOTLINE

“... commands one’s attention ... a vocal performance which deserves mention" - LA JAZZ SCENE

... deserved a far longer run” – LOS ANGELES TIMES </b></i>

San Francisco favorite and <b>Bistro/BMI Award-winning jazz & cabaret vocalist Linda Kosut </b>brings her brand new show <b>“By Any Other Name”</b> to San Francisco’s RRazz Room. Lead by musical director John Simon, Linda’s band has some of the Bay Area’s top musicians including Tom Shader on bass, John Mader on drums and Tony Malfatti, on horns.

What is “By Any Other Name”? Given that songwriters can name their songs the same as other tunes already published, there are many songs with the same names – take “Time After Time” written in 1947 by Sammy Cahn & Julie Styne or was it written by Cyndi Lauper in 1984? How about “All By Myself” written by Irving Belrin in 1921, or maybe that was written by Eric Carmen in 1975? In her new show, Kosut and her band, in her style of mixing up unexpected arrangements of jazz, pop and folk, will present songs with the same title from different genres and across the decades.

This is Kosut’s last show of 2010 at the Rrazz Room – the 6th of a 6-show series which she produced this year, starting with her sold-out show in March 2010 to the very successful New Stars of the Rrazz Room this past September.

Don Heckman, International Review of Music and jazz critic to the Los Angeles Times says of Linda <i>“ [this] amazing Bay Area canary brings her skills as an actress to her insightful interpretations of songs underscored with a fusion of jazz, pop and folk.” </i>Linda has performed to full houses at New York’s Iridium Jazz Club to San Francisco’s Yoshi’s and The Rrazz Room.

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