The John Pizzarelli Trio at Sunset Jazz At Newport Summer Series at Bistango Restaurant

Making his seventh return to our stage, John has enjoyed an over
30-year career as a jazz guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He was hailed by the Boston Globe for “reinvigorating the Great American Songbook and re-popularizing jazz.” And the Seattle Times saluted him as “a rare entertainer of the old school.” John’s syndicated radio show, “Radio Deluxe with John Pizzarelli,” cohosted with his wife, Broadway star Jessica Molaskey, airs in more than one hundred markets and can be heard locally on KKJZ at 6am on Sunday
mornings. His performance highlights include headlining concerts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Hollywood Bowl and New Year’s Eve at the Kennedy Center plus opening for Frank Sinatra’s World Tour in 1993 and an annual month-long engagement with Jessica at New York’s famed Café Carlyle. All during the pandemic and with the untimely deaths of both John’s famous father Bucky Pizzarelli and his mother Ruth, John & Jessica isolated themselves in their...

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Making his seventh return to our stage, John has enjoyed an over
30-year career as a jazz guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He was hailed by the Boston Globe for “reinvigorating the Great American Songbook and re-popularizing jazz.” And the Seattle Times saluted him as “a rare entertainer of the old school.” John’s syndicated radio show, “Radio Deluxe with John Pizzarelli,” cohosted with his wife, Broadway star Jessica Molaskey, airs in more than one hundred markets and can be heard locally on KKJZ at 6am on Sunday
mornings. His performance highlights include headlining concerts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Hollywood Bowl and New Year’s Eve at the Kennedy Center plus opening for Frank Sinatra’s World Tour in 1993 and an annual month-long engagement with Jessica at New York’s famed Café Carlyle. All during the pandemic and with the untimely deaths of both John’s famous father Bucky Pizzarelli and his mother Ruth, John & Jessica isolated themselves in their
upstate New York cabin on a lake, producing a popular weekly show, It’s 5’Oclock Somewhere streamed to fans around the world. During this time, John welcomed the challenge of diving
deep into Pat Metheny’s moving material and recording a solo guitar CD called- “Better Days Ahead”. John also was a co-producer on James Taylor’s “American Standard” album, winning a
Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album! Our great thanks, from Joe and John, to John Pizzarelli, for desiring a return to perform with his trio at Sunset Jazz, each summer.

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