Terese Genecco (pronounced "Teh-REECE Jeh-NECK-oh") and this, her debut recording, are the 2008 MAC Award Winners for Best Recording of the Year (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs.) Genecco performed at the 22nd Annual MAC Awards Ceremony on May 6th, 2008 at B.B. King's Blues Club in NYC to a capacity crowd. This CD also won the Cabaret Hotline Online Members Choice Award for Top Ten Best CDs of 2008 and was named one of the Top Ten Best Vocal Albums of 2008 by the Sound Advice Column on Talkin'Broadway.com. Genecco is the recipient of a 2007 Backstage Bistro Award, San Francisco’s “Entertainer of the Year,” award, a 2008 MAC Award Nomination for Best Female Vocalist, a 2006 MAC Award Nomination for Best Female Debut Vocalist, and is a rising musical star, from coast to coast.
TIME OUT New York magazine named Genecco’s 2006 and 2007 performances of her tribute shows, "Drunk With Love" and "Drunk With Love: The Sequel" to their TOP TEN lists, in the esteemed company of jazz singer Paula West, and musical legends, Eartha Kitt and Jack Jones. TIME OUT NY Arts & Entertainment editor, Elisabeth Vincentelli, described Genecco’s shows as generating “more wattage – and fun – than an entire evening of Rufus Wainwright at Carnegie Hall!”
Music critic, Rob Lester asks, “Is it cabaret? Is it jazz? Is it rhythm & blues?” and answers, “When Terese Genecco sings, it’s all of the above, but more than that, it’s a PARTY!”
Critics and audiences are in agreement. Genecco has garnered nothing but rave reviews for her original musical creation, “DRUNK WITH LOVE: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCES FAYE!” The Bay Area Reporter proclaimed, “Drunk With Love is INTOXICATING!” The San Francisco Bay Times music critic declared that “Genecco and her knock-out band delivered one of the most engrossing, all-out talented performances seen in years.” TalkinBroadway and TheaterMania critics have hailed Genecco and her shows as “Captivating!” and described her as “An entertainer with a capital E!” Next Magazine asserts, “If you don’t know who Frances Faye was, you should. And if you don’t know who Terese Genecco is, you WILL!”
Genecco has been performing in “Drunk With Love” since the summer of 2005, where it made its world premiere, in a five-week run at San Francisco’s New Conservatory Theater Center. Terese has since appeared in New York City at Rose Hall at Jazz @ Lincoln Center (in the esteemed Mabel Mercer Foundation Cabaret Convention,) The Iridium Jazz Club, The Encore Showroom, and in extended, repeat engagements at Manhattan’s swanky nightclub, The Metropolitan Room (Named Best Cabaret/Nightclub Venue by New York Magazine) in NYC.
Four live performances of “Drunk With Love” were recorded at The Metropolitan Room in New York City in October of 2006. These recordings have now been released on the independent music label, BUG:OUT:MUSIC. Genecco's debut CD can be considered a companion piece to Frances Faye's "Caught In The Act" LP's from 1958 and 1963 on the GNP Crescendo Records Label. The official "Drunk With Love" CD website is: http://www.drunkwithlove.com. Go there to read Genecco's notes on the songs and arrangements, the liner notes, the band members, and her prolific thanks to everyone who took part in the project!
For the last year, Genecco was regularly seen on Saturday nights at 10:30 PM, with her stellar 7-piece *little big band* in "Last Call!" at San Francisco's newest nightclub venue, THE RRAZZ ROOM in the Hotel Nikko in downtown San Francisco. She also performs regularly in Hollywood at The M Bar where she is often accompanied by Latin percussion legend JACK "MR BONGO" COSTANZO (who played on Faye's 1958 live recording "Caught In The Act!") Genecco and band were the opening act for Grammy-Winner STEVE TYRELL at The Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey at last November, and appeared again in NYC at their favorite cabaret/nightclub, THE METROPOLITAN ROOM in October.
NOW Genecco and her NYC *little big band* are performing at the world-famous IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB on BROADWAY in NYC on THE LAST TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH.
Ticket and show details are available at
http://www.iridiumjazzclub.com.
More information about Terese Genecco can be found at http://www.teresegenecco.com
More information about Frances Faye can be found at http://www.tyleralpern.com/francesfaye.html
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