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Rhode Island born Daryl Sherman has been a part of the New York City jazz scene since the mid-70s and she is one of the rare singing pianists equally talented in both roles. Sherman is a unique stylist with charm, quick wit , chemistry with her audiences and ability to make herself at home in any musical setting. From her early stints at Sinatra hang-outs like Jilly’s, there’s hardly a jazz joint, supper club or hotel Daryl has missed. When Artie Shaw formed a new band after his retirement, Sherman was his chosen singer, calling her “a first rate singer –musician”. Her CDs are in regular rotation on Cable TV’s Music Choice, Sirius/XM Radio,BBC, JazzRadio Berlin and she’s been a frequent guest on Marian McPartland’s NPR Piano Jazz.

Renowned for a stellar 14-year run at the Waldorf=Astoria, Daryl played Cole Porter’s Steinway. A recent CD, Mississippi Belle displays Porter songs in a New Orleans setting. No stranger to the Crescent City, she often appears at Satchmo Summerfest and Snug Harbor. In New York she’s played Kitano Jazz, Knickerbocker, Algonquin Oak Room, Iridium, Dizzy’s Coca Cola and Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis – also a favorite at the Mabel Mercer Foundation Cabaret Convention, Highlights in Jazz and Bryant Park Piano series, Midtown Jazz at St Peter’s and JVC Jazzfest in NYC nad Newport. She’s a 3 time MAC award winner and just named Hothouse Magazine “Best jazz vocalist” 2015.

Daryl Sherman tours UK annually and has guested on BBC tributes to Artie Shaw and Johnny Mercer. Her last appearance at London’s Crazy Coques garnered high praise and she’s also a favorite at Ronnie Scott’s, Pizza Express Soho, The Stables / Wavendon, Taliesin Centre in Swansea, The Sage, Newcastle and jazzfests in Birmingham, Wigan, Marlborough, Brecon and Edinburgh. She also performs concerts and master classes in Delft, Holland.

Highly praised for her knowledge and passion for the American Songbook, Daryl has recorded and performed many composer tributes including Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Jimmy McHugh and Johnny Mercer. A track from her Mercer Centennial CD was used in a documentary produced by Clint Eastwood. This spring will mark her fourth trip to Tokyo for a club stint at Tabelaux Lounge and new CD release “My Blue Heaven” on Japanese label Muzak.

Daryl has performed and recorded with notables: Bucky & John Pizzarelli, Houston Person, Warren Vache, Bob Dorough , Wycliffe Gordon, Dick Hyman, Dave McKenna, Mike Renzi, Jay Leonhart, Boots Maleson, James Chirillo , Howard Alden, Joe Temperley, Ken Peplowski, Dick Sudhalter, Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks and British all-stars Dave Green, Alan Barnes, Digby Fairweather, Andrew Cleyndert and Japan trumpet star Yoshio Toyama.

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Album Review

Daryl Sherman: Johnny Mercer A Centennial Tribute

Read "Johnny Mercer A Centennial Tribute" reviewed by Andrew Velez


Choosing “I'm Shadowing You" as the opener on Daryl Sherman's fine Centennial Tribute to composer and lyricist Johnny Mercer inevitably recalls Blossom Dearie. Heretofore that tune has pretty much been the exclusive property of the late vocalist. There are also other, more than passing, resemblances between the two singers, both first-class self-accompanists on piano possessing underage sounding voices used effectively to slyly charming ends. With a legacy of 1,500 heartfelt and humorous songs, Mercer's is a rich ...

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Daryl Sherman: New O'leans

Read "New O'leans" reviewed by Ken Dryden


Singer/pianist Daryl Sherman has been a fixture on the Manhattan music scene for years, playing various clubs since her arrival in 1974 and ending a 14-year run at the Waldorf-Astoria earlier this year. New O’Leans is her tribute to the survival spirit of the Crescent City’s residents, still present after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, where a parade is possible any day for any occasion.Joined by several of the city’s top jazz musicians, including guitarist James ...

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Daryl Sherman: Guess Who's In Town?

Read "Guess Who's In Town?" reviewed by Suzanne Lorge


Vocalist-pianist Daryl Sherman performs every week at the Waldorf-Astoria, playing the same piano on which Cole Porter composed. Sherman is the right player for such a setting and such an instrument; she's a swing musician in the most traditional sense of that phrase. Where many singers seek novelty in the hybridization of jazz with other musical idioms, Sherman remains true to a straight-ahead interpretation of jazz standards from the early part of the last century. (Such an orthodox singer is ...

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Daryl Sherman: A Hundred Million Miracles

Read "A Hundred Million Miracles" reviewed by Mitchell Seidel


Listening to Daryl Sherman’s cheerful singing on this album, you may find yourself forgetting that she’s also the pianist on the date. That oversight is your misfortune. Her lightly swinging style on the keyboard shows just how much of these songs she has learned inside out. Last year’s centennial of Richard Rodgers served to remind us all just how much a part of mainstream jazz his theater music had become. Consequently, Sherman’s album of his tunes, performed ...

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Ruby Braff: I Hear Music

Read "I Hear Music" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Ruby Braff has compiled an album of sheer pleasure in quintet work. His well shaped cornet sound, and the interplay of the instruments through each cut is a shining example of mastery of pacing and a sense of timing. Within each of the cuts is a conversation between the instruments where each one says their version of the melody in turn. Cut 2, a medley of “Chicago” and “My Kind of Town” also has hints of Loesser’s “Baby, It’s Cold ...

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New York Pianist/Singer Daryl Sherman In Tokyo Debut

New York Pianist/Singer Daryl Sherman In Tokyo Debut

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Making her Japan debut Daryl Sherman-singer,pianist, internationally heralded recording artist performs nightly at Tableaux Lounge in Tokyo until February 27. Located in chic Daikanyama area, the late night haven presents jazz Monday through Saturday from 8:30 pm -12. Joining her on this special stint is Koji Tetsui, bass and Paul Florea, violin. A Manhattan mainstay, Daryl Sherman has been a regular at the Waldorf Astoria, Algonquin, Dizzy's Coca Cola, countless concert series, tours annually and conducts workshop/master classes. Often compared ...

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Daryl Sherman and Joe Temperley at Knickerbocker (NYC) August 20/21

Daryl Sherman and Joe Temperley at Knickerbocker (NYC) August 20/21

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Pianist/vocalist Daryl Sherman and Joe Temperley on baritone and soprano sax reprise their special duo format on August 20, 21 (9:45pmר am) at Knickerbocker, 33 University Place and 9th St. 212-228-8490. Sherman's light bright singing (reminicent of Mildred Bailey and Blossom Dearie) along with her rollicky swinging piano make a perfect foil for Temperley, who continues to anchor the sax section of Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. “It takes a brave vocalist to share the spotlight with a baritone saxophonist as ...

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Americas off Broadway Celebrates Jazz Legend Artie Shaw with the Anderson Twins, Daryl Sherman

Americas off Broadway Celebrates Jazz Legend Artie Shaw with the Anderson Twins, Daryl Sherman

Source: Michael Ricci

Americas Off Broadway Celebrates the Artie Shaw Centennial with a special two week engagement of The Anderson Twins with THE ANDERSON TWINS - BENNY GOODMAN MEETS ARTIE SHAW: WHO WAS KING? (May 18 - 23) and THE ANDERSON TWINS CELEBRATE ARTIE SHAW AT 100 WITH DARYL SHERMAN (May 25 - May 30) New York, New York April 27, 2010--59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) is thrilled to celebrate Artie Shaw's Centennial at AMERICAS OFF BROADWAY when ...

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Jazz This Week: Peter Brotzmann and Hamid Drake, Daryl Sherman, Erin Bode and More

Jazz This Week: Peter Brotzmann and Hamid Drake, Daryl Sherman, Erin Bode and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

After a jam-packed calendar of offerings last week, this weekend offers a bit more breathing room for St. Louis fans of jazz and creative music. Still, there are several events worth noting, so let's go right to the highlights:For starters, it's the final weekend for the Black Rep's production of the Louis Jordan musical Five Guys Named Moe, which is playing through Sunday at the Grandel Theatre. The production was directed by Black Rep founder Ron Himes and ...

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Reviews: Joe Lovano, Daryl Sherman, Fred Hersch and Miller Williams

Reviews: Joe Lovano, Daryl Sherman, Fred Hersch and Miller Williams

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey

Joe Lovano Us Five, Folk Art (Blue Note).

As noted in the Rifftides coverage of the Portland Jazz Festival, the saxophonist's Us Five band is a playground of reaction and interaction among diverse but finely attuned musicians. The ages of the other band members, who include two drummers, no doubt average half of Lovano's. If they provide him inspiration and rhythmic fire, it works both ways. In spirit, the music is based in the post-Coltrane ethos of three decades ago. ...

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Daryl Sherman Jazz Tribute to Johnny Mercer June 1, 8 and 15

Daryl Sherman Jazz Tribute to Johnny Mercer June 1, 8 and 15

Source: All About Jazz

In celebration of her new Arbors CD Johnny Mercer: A Centennial Tribute, singer/pianist Daryl Sherman will be appearing three Mondays, June 1, 8, 15 (one 8pm show) at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room, NYC. Guest musicians sharing in this salute to one of America's greatest songwriters include James Chirillo, Boots Maleson, Wycliffe Gordon, Howard Alden and Jay Leonhart. The emphasis will be Mercer's collaborations with jazz luminaries such as Jimmy Rowles, Blossom Dearie, Marian McPartland in addition to Lionel Hampton, ...

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Daryl Sherman Chasing the Monday Blues with a Signature Jazz Sound

Daryl Sherman Chasing the Monday Blues with a Signature Jazz Sound

Source: Michael Ricci

That shopworn description songbird applies to the jazz singer and pianist Daryl Sherman.

Not only because she has a sweet, little-girl lilt embodied in her voice, but also because her musical spirit belongs to an era when jazz singing was an expression of pure enjoyment; Freudian subtexts had yet to tunnel into the core of popular music.

But Ms. Sherman, who is appearing on Monday evenings indefinitely at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel, isnt all sweetness and light. ...

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New Monday Series with Daryl Sherman at The Oak Room (NYC)

New Monday Series with Daryl Sherman at The Oak Room (NYC)

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Daryl Sherman Piano Jazz Vocals and Jay Leonhart on Bass April 3, 2006, at A.C. Pianocraft

Daryl Sherman Piano Jazz Vocals and Jay Leonhart on Bass April 3, 2006,  at A.C. Pianocraft

Source: All About Jazz

RobertaOnTheArts.com and A.C. Pianocraft, Inc. Are Pleased to Announce A Piano-Plus Jazz Series Daryl Sherman on Piano Jazz Vocals and Jay Leonhart on Bass All Concert Profits to be Sent to The New Orleans Musicians' Clinic http://wwoz.org/clinic/ $20/Ticket, At the Door, Includes 8 - 10 PM Concert, Wine, and Buffet PLUS Raffle for a Choice Treatment at www.SpaJa.com! Nine Concerts, Once/Month October, 2005 through June, 2006 Monday Evenings 8:00 - ...

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Singer Daryl Sherman and Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks Orchestra's holiday show The Park Avenue Whirl

Singer Daryl Sherman and Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks Orchestra's holiday show The Park Avenue Whirl

Source: All About Jazz

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) glitters during the month of December with the festive Holiday celebration The Park Avenue Whirl. The Park Avenue Whirl begins previews on Friday, December 16 for a limited engagement through Saturday, December 31.

Opening Night is Tuesday, December 20 at 8:00 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Saturday at 8:00 PM, and Sunday at 7:00 PM. Single tickets are $50 ($35 for 59E59 members) and are available by calling ...

"In Sherman’s imaginary world, Rodgers and Hart are still scribbling furiously, Duke Ellington is on the road again and 52nd Street has plenty of night life left." —London Times

“Effervescent and madly talented!” —Rex Reed

“She’s smart, funny and swinging” —Gary Giddins

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Johnny Mercer A...

Arbors Records
2009

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New O'leans

Audiophile Records
2008

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Guess Who's In Town?

Arbors Records
2007

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A Hundred Million...

Arbors Records
2004

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I Hear Music

Arbors Records
2002

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