

at the Pollak Theatre at Monmouth University, and on Saturday night, South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, bandleader and composer Hugh Masekela comes to Pollak. Her voice is so distinctive, any song she covers becomes her own, and appropriately, one of her concerts is a free-wheeling musical journey that often includes selections from Leonard Cohen, the Beatles, Warren Zevon and Bob Dylan. He was referring to then up-and-coming singer-songwriter Madeleine Peyroux. Call the club at 73.Ī number of years ago at a JVC Jazz Festival gig at the Supper Club, East Orange-based jazz ballads singer Jimmy Scott said her voice reminded him of Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday. at Tim McLoone’s Supper Club, 1200 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park, are $25 to $45. Tickets for Buster Poindexter and band tomorrow at 8 p.m. It’s more like a jazz band in the way we think and improvise,” Johansen said, “we come in and do a great show and we get a lotta laughs and we do a lot of really great songs.” “I don’t want to sing the same songs over and over again. I figured as a singer I need to be able to do that, too, so I can sing other music as well.” “So many musicians I know - and I know a lot of musicians - I ask, ‘OK, what are you doing, and I hear things like, ‘I’m going to play with Tony Bennett tomorrow - or somebody else - ‘I’m going on tour with Barbra Streisand.’ They all have these different outlets. It frees me up to sing whatever I want to sing, ‘cause there are so many songs l like to sing,” Johansen explained. When I go out as David Johansen, people want to hear David Johansen songs.

For that reason, he cautioned that his Saturday show at the Supper Club as Buster Poindexter will be nothing like the Buster Poindexter people may remember from radio airplay in the 1980s and ’90s.īuster Poindexter, he explained Sunday night, “is a conceit I came up with so I could sing whatever I want. Like any great artist, singer David Johansen just keeps challenging himself and seeking new experiences for greater personal, artistic and spiritual growth.
