San Francisco favorite and Bistro/BMI Award-winning jazz & cabaret vocalist Linda Kosut brings her brand new show “By Any Other Name” to San Francisco’s RRazz Room. Lead by musical director John Simon, Linda’s band has some of the Bay Area’s top musicians including Tom Shader on bass, John Mader on drums and Tony Malfatti, on horns.
What is “By Any Other Name”? Given that songwriters can name their songs the same as other tunes already published, there are many songs with the same names – take “Time After Time” written in 1947 by Sammy Cahn & Julie Styne or was it written by Cyndi Lauper in 1984? How about “All By Myself” written by Irving Belrin in 1921, or maybe that was written by Eric Carmen in 1975? In her new show, Kosut and her band, in her style of mixing up unexpected arrangements of jazz, pop and folk, will present songs with the same title from different genres and across the decades.
This is Kosut’s last show of 2010 at the Rrazz Room – the 6th of a 6-show series which she produced this year, starting with her sold-out show in March 2010 to the very successful New Stars of the Rrazz Room this past September.
Linda grew up in New York City and moved to San Francisco over 20 years ago. A she was reaching the close of her career in business she began pursing a career in the performing arts. “I finally decided to do what I always wanted to do – entertain. I didn’t know how it was going to turn out but am thrilled that now my entire focus is on entertaining and providing opportunities for others to do the same. At the end of the day, I know that pursuing my childhood dreams has made a difference in my life and others around me.”
Kosut was awarded BackStage Magazine’s Bistro/BMI Award for Outstanding Recording the same year she was nominated for two MAC awards, Best Female Jazz Vocalist and Best Jazz Recording (Manhattan Association of Cabaret s and Clubs). The award and nomination was for her second CD and accompanying tribute show, “Long As You’re Living – the songs & poetry of Oscar Brown Jr.”