Sat 5/6 @ 7PM
Scottish-born Cleveland jazz vocalist Carol Leslie is a regular at area venues, performing torch songs from the Great American Songbook, along with a mix of contemporary pop and soul tunes. She cites influences ranging from Ella Fitzgerald, Cleo Laine and Sarah Vaughan, to Barbra Striesand, Liza Minnelli, Diana Ross and Frank Sinatra, and even Lady Gaga. She’s got a CD called Live at the BOP STOP if you’d like to preview what you might hear: tunes ranging from Billie Holiday’s “Fine and Mellow,” to Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning,” to “The Boy from Ipanema,” to the Beatles” “We Can Work It Out.”
She’ll be back at the BOP STOP, where she’s performed many times and is in her element, this week, promising an evening of “amazing torch songs, R&B and Broadway renditions,” including tunes sung by Sting, Bette Midler, Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder and Samara.
She’ll be accompanied by some of the area’s topnotch versatile jazz musicians including pianist Rock Wehrman, bassist Jeff Slater, drummer Jim Alexander and guitarist Joseph Rangel
Tickets to attend in person are $20 each. This event will also be livestreamed on BOP STOP’s Facebook page.