Steve Ross: An American in Paris

Steve Ross uses his polish and comic timing to conjure a vanished world of cultivated manners and deftly witty lyrics, but with a wistfulness that gives his work a moving third dimension. His latest show at Birdland finds him focused on the City of Light, as rendered in chansons by Edith Piaf as well as by American writers including Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg, Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern, Jerry Herman and Irving Berlin.