Melissa Errico: I Can Dream, Can't I? - Classic Songs For Valentine’s Day

Melissa Erricos new Valentine residency 2025 is a collection of standards that are not standard. Though many of the songs are familiar, even classics, they become intimate conversations and private reflections on romance & desire. Accompanied by a jazz trio led by jazz pianist Andy Ezrin, Melissa returns to Birdland for her third annual Valentines residency, ready to whisper & swing her romantic secrets and illusions. Songs by Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, Joni Mitchell, David Shire Lost in His Arms and Why Did I Lose You? to But, Beautiful, and the sweetly erotic Dancing On the Ceiling. Has any lyric ever been sexier than the incomparable Larry Harts fantasy:She dances overhead/on the ceiling/near my bed/in my sight/through the night. There are moons and Junes in these songs, but reality too.The words, like the music, like the lady, float. They float still.When Melissa sings a classic, it isnt a torch song. Its more of a searchlight. The songs taken as a found cycle may still, however, point a path, paint a little picture. A love story made of sighs and secrets rather than neat happy endings. A series of evasions and implications. Love as an obstacle course run by adults rather than meadows measured by children. Spring will be a little late this year. Only a little, but thats enough.