An Evening With the Anderson Brothers Is Almost Guaranteed To Be De-Lovely
Their Tuesday evening Cole Porter series is, as we’ve come to expect from them, a wonderful jazz delineation of the words and music of a quintessential American composer.
The Anderson Brothers Play Cole Porter
Birdland
Tuesdays in October
Somehow, I never noticed it before now, but “It’s De-Lovely” has got to be the most meta song ever written — and I more or less grew up with Ella Fitzgerald singing it on “The Cole Porter Songbook.” As performed by the excellent young singer Molly Ryan with Pete and Will Anderson and Birdland, it becomes clear how Porter conceived the song as an ambitious parody that takes on the whole of American marital culture, the music industry, and even the act of singing itself.
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