Top Boston jazz group “Twilight” is proud to announce its highly successful Rat Pack tribute show. The group features premier vocalists include Steve Marvin, Alex McDougal or Joey Canzano on lead vocals. Some key repertoire the group covers in the show includes: Fly Me To The Moon, You’re Nobody (Till Somebody Loves You), The Way You Look Tonight, Ain’t That A Kick in the Head, Come Fly with Me, New York New York, Thats Amore, All the Way, Witchcraft, Summer Wind, I Get a Kick Out of You, Luck Be a Lady, Strangers in the Night and My Way.
The group is available in several configurations depending on the individual needs of the client:
Solo vocalists performing over pre-recorded tracks.
This idea works well in combination with a Disc Jockey or for smaller scaled performances and budgets.
Keyboard, Bass, Drums & Lead Vocalists
This is the most popular configuration. It includes the excitement and spontaneity of live musicians with the portabliity of a smaller combination. A horn player can be added to this configuration for more depth.
Full 16pc Orchestra
This concert show is the only one of its kind that features a swinging big band performing the actual arrangements of Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Don Costa, Quincy Jones and Neal Hefti.
By Dinah Cardin
February 10, 2004
First, he's Old Blue Eyes. Then with a slight shift of
stance, a subtlety of gesture and a total change
in tonality, he becomes Dean Martin. Throughout
the night, he'll morph several times, to Tony Bennett,
Tom Jones, Julio Iglesias, Neil Diamond and the King
himself.
Joey Canzano didn't even begin to croon until after he turned 30,
but the "Man of Many Voices" sure knows how to deliver the gyrating hits - spot on. And his talent wasn't lost on a crowd last Wednesday night, who settled in for an evening of winter entertainment at Prince Pizzeria on Route 1.
Sitting at long family-style tables, enjoying a buffet of pizza and pasta. the sold-out audience swayed their arms and sang along to My, my, my Delilah" and "Sweet Caroline."
The patent-leather-haired Canzano intermittently cranked it up and then took it back down to a spine tingling level of pre-Valentine's Day romance.
Whatever he wants to call it, his total transformation from one swaggering star to another is nothing short of pure genius and leads him to gigs about every weekend. Canzano, Howe and D' Angelo were preparing last weekend to take it on the road to the Cape Codder Resort.
His lounge act, polished with all the one liners of the Rat Pack comes complete with a blow on the invisible dice and a roll into the audience during his performance of Sinatra's "Luck Be a Lady." Moping his forehead with a hanky and gold pinky ring flashing.
In the spirit of Elvis humor, following a raucous medley of his songs, Canzano finishes with "Thank you very much. Oh, I think I hurt myself on that one."
Canzano the voices
JOEY CANZANO, "Man of Many Voices," in the summer
series at the John Carver Inn, Cape Code, Massachusetts
By ELLEN BRAMS
Singers like Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, Neil Diamond, Englebert Humperdink, tom Jones, Bobby Darin and Elvis Presley aren't legendary voices for nothing. If you think distance from the Vegas show rooms or deflated wallets or the fact we have sadly lost some of these incredible talents means you can't appreciate their unique musical styles, you're wrong.
Joey Canzano, who bills himself as "The Man of Many Voices," performs them all with endless energy showmanship and a variety of wonderfully authentic vocal sounds and styles. Canzano's show is one of three offerings on a rotating schedule this summer in the dinner-theater room at the John Carver Inn in Plymouth.
Make no mistake: Canzano's show isn't about gimmicks. It's about talent. He doesn't attempt to sing the songs made famous by some of the biggest names in showbiz or try to look like them with cheap impersonations. Canzano actually does the material of the greats so authentically that if you closed you eyes you'd swear you were listening to the originals! On a small stage, with just a spotlight and and a mike, you have to have the goods to keep an audience rapt, and Canzano definitely does. Crating each song with care, he pays homage to the singers he's chosen and also gives his audiences a wonderful nostalgic evening of great music.
For it's part the John Carver Inn provides delicious dinners, well presented and served by a courteous and attentive wait staff.
Although Canzano has more than enough talent to be a one-man show, he shares the stage with two other terrific talents, Joey Beddia and Shannon Howe. Any show of this kind can benefit from a cheerleader emcee, but there are few like the multitalented Beddia. The man has the looks and sound of Brando (thankfully minus the heft) and a million one-liners. He also does a tongue-twisting rap worthy of George Carlin and an amusing impersonation of Jimmy Durante. And he plays a mean sax.
Howe is not only engaging and naturally stunning, she serves up selections from Connie Francis and the inimitable Patsy Cline with great results.
But the main attraction is obviously Canzano. Beginning with Sinatra's sassy "Luck Be a Lady" and the dramatic "My Way," he intersperses his songs with brief repartee for both background and intimacy. He switches vocal styles and sounds effortlessly, from Dino's "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime" to Bennett's " I Left My Heart in San Francisco" to Neil Diamond's smokey "Love on the Rocks" to Darin's take- it- on home "Bill Bailey ."
If you closed your eyes, you'd swear you were hearing the stars themselves. After the haunting Tom Jones favorite "Delilah," Canzano rocks out with an Elvis set including many of the expected favorites and some bonus hits by other singers done with Elvis' sound and moves.
Canzano is the genuine article, sincere, hard-working, and possessing a powerful, malleable set of vocal chords and a good ear. He's appearing on a rotating schedule, so check with the inn for his next booking. It's worth the trip.