Ann Hampton Callaway Performs in the Allen Room on May 23,

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The New York Youth Symphony's Jazz Band Classic concludes its tenth season on Wednesday, May 23, 2009, at 7:30pm with "Sounds From The City, " featuring soloist Ann Hampton Callaway at The Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Under the direction of Matt Holman, director, the group will perform songs from New York City with music by Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, and Frank Sinatra, as well as a big band salute to Broadway. The Adjacent Possible by Evan Weiss, commissioned through the New York Youth Symphony's acclaimed First Music program, will receive its world premiere.

Ann Hampton Callaway is one of the leading champions of the great American Songbook, having made her mark as a singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, educator, TV host and producer. A born entertainer, her unique singing style blends jazz and traditional pop. Ms. Callaway has been a special guest performer with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood, and is featured at many of the Carnegie Hall tributes.

Jazz Band Classic (JBC) is a program of the award-winning New York Youth Symphony, an independent program nurturing the metropolitan area's best young musicians with programs in orchestra, chamber music, composition, and conducting in addition to jazz. The JBC is modeled on the big bands of the 1930's and 40's and re-invigorates the big band arrangements of the classic exponents of jazz. Jazz Band Classic showcases New York City's best young jazz talent in performances of traditional big band music along with the stylizations of the current jazz idiom.

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