Thu 10/10 @ 8PM
Liz Sharp left Cleveland at age 24, after playing in bands, performing in musical theater and doing jingles and voice-overs. She spent some time in New York and Los Angeles, before ending up in Florida where she’s lived for 17 years.
Clevelanders who don’t remember her might remember her parents, the jazz duo of Fred and Irish Sharp who performed locally from the 40s-90s. Or her brother Todd Sharp, who started playing in local bands in his early teens and ended up playing with Fleetwood Mac. Obviously, making music was in her blood.
Liz herself sings a long list of jazz, pop, blues, and dance standards, She even has a couple of Fleetwood Mac tunes in her repertoire. But since she’s coming to play Nighttown, she’s more likely to perform a program of standards — the Porter, Gershwin, Arlen, Berlin, and Rodgers & Hammerstein/Rodgers & Hart tunes vocal jazz fans can’t get enough of. If it’s part of the Great American Songbook, she probably knows it.
She sings with a winning combination of worldliness and warmth, and a light, unforced inflection and phrasing that don’t oversell a song.
She’ll be accompanied by the Cleveland-based Joe Hunter Trio.
Tickets are $10.