Steve Ross: C'Mon and Hear!—An Irving Berlin Celebration

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. In his return to Birdland, he salutes Great American Songbook mainstay Irving Berlin, the man behind such earworm classics as "Puttin' on the Ritz," "Always," "White Christmas" and "There's No Business Like Show Business."