Jane Scheckter

Jane Scheckter: Easy To Remember

by Edward Blanco
February 17, 2012

Music from The Great American Songbook is getting quite a workout these days, with more musicians and singers spinning their renditions of old standards and classics than ever before. On the stellar Easy To Remember, jazz-cabaret singer Jane Scheckter taps into the well, lending her interpretations to songs from this repertoire with an all-star cast of players. This is the fourth album for the veteran vocalist using a standard trio format. Pianist/arranger Ted Firth and bassist extraordinaire Jay Leonhart, who ...

Jane Scheckter Tribute to Lena Horne

Source: Michael Ricci
May 14, 2008

Letting Loose, Lena Horne Style

Jane Scheckter will perform “From This Moment On" at 7 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday, at Broadway Baby, 318 West 53rd Street, Clinton; (212) 757-5808, broadwaybabybistro.com.

Ferocious. That is the word the pop-jazz singer Jane Scheckter applies to Lena Horne in “From This Moment On," her tribute to Ms. Horne, who is now 90. Ms. Scheckter recalled at Broadway Baby bistro on Wednesday evening that Ms. Horne, along with Bobby Short and Tony Perkins, was one ...
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