FEB 17 & 18 MARILYN MAYE @THE DAKOTA
January 29, 2010 by IamMoody.com Team
Filed under Recommended Events
Announcing Two Nights Only: February 17 & 18
Marilyn Maye at The Dakota.
MARILYN MAYE was dubbed “Super Singer” 
by the late Johnny Carson.
• Ella Fitzgerald called her “the greatest white
female singer in the world.”
• The Houston Chronicle termed her
“a National Treasure.”
• “Too Late Now” recorded on her RCA “Lamp
Is Low” album, was chosen by the Smithsonian
Institute and included in it’s best performers
of the best composition of the 20th Century
permanent collection.
• Add 76 appearances on “The Tonight Show,”
a Grammy Award nomination in the mid-1960s
as Best New Artist, a bevy of awards reflecting
her showmanship, and you have an illustrious
singing career that is still going strong after a
lifetime spent entertaining audiences.
February 17 & 18 • 7pm
Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant
1010 Nicollet Avenue, Mpls • 612-332-1010
www.dakotacooks.com for tickets
Thanks for posting this! As great as the accolades above are, they just scratch the surface. Her 2007 return to New York stages after a 15 year hiatus has been pretty amazing, as the reviews attest to. This is from a 2009 NY Times review -
“As Marilyn Maye threaded her way from the stage through a packed house of cheering admirers at the Metropolitan Room at the end of Friday’s opening-night performance, I overheard comparisons to Judy Garland’s 1961 concert at Carnegie Hall. …
Suffice it to say that Ms. Maye came across … as the embodiment and summation of a brash sock-it-to-’em nightclub tradition that runs from Garland through Bette Midler … Ms. Maye, 81, is a phenomenon.”
Here are links to that review and others -
Standards Delivered With Sock-It-to-’Em Attitude
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/arts/music/15maye.html
A Good Time Singer Who Isn’t Afraid to Sing the Blues
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/15/arts/music/15maye.html?fta=y
Mix Broadway and Jazz, Then Stir With ’50s Flair
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/24/arts/music/24maye.html
Review: Marilyn Maye, a singer’s singer
http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-09-17/entertainment/17207322_1_lyrics-voice-song
I’m running out of superlatives with which to describe the sublimely sophisticated Marilyn Maye.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Review_Phylicia_Rashad_Marilyn_Maye_Though_Not_Together_20090618