Biography
Nightclub singer Jeff Harnar first attracted notice during the 1990s, when The New York Times described him as “the most important new male cabaret performer since Michael Feinstein.” Twice he received the Manhattan Association of Cabaret Award for Best Male Vocalist, and on three occasions he earned the Backstage Bistro Award. New York engagements took him to the Algonquin, the Café Carlyle, and Rainbow & Stars, while additional concerts carried him across the United States and into Europe. He also headlined the PBS-TV specials The 1959 Broadway Songbook and Remember: Songs of the Holidays.
Most of Harnar’s recordings have served as sonic counterparts to the successive nightclub shows he assembled. His debut album, The 1959 Broadway Songbook, was taped in 1991 and appeared on Original Cast Records in 1995. Because of You: Fifties Gold came out on Varèse Sarabande Records in 1997 and was later reissued by Original Cast in 2002. Jerome Records issued his third album in 2001, Sammy Cahn: All the Way, which captured his tribute to lyricist Sammy Cahn. In 2005 PS Classics released Dancing in the Dark, a survey of Great American Songbook standards performed with a small orchestra.
Most of Harnar’s recordings have served as sonic counterparts to the successive nightclub shows he assembled. His debut album, The 1959 Broadway Songbook, was taped in 1991 and appeared on Original Cast Records in 1995. Because of You: Fifties Gold came out on Varèse Sarabande Records in 1997 and was later reissued by Original Cast in 2002. Jerome Records issued his third album in 2001, Sammy Cahn: All the Way, which captured his tribute to lyricist Sammy Cahn. In 2005 PS Classics released Dancing in the Dark, a survey of Great American Songbook standards performed with a small orchestra.
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