Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys - Jazzville
Thu, Jan 27
|Palm Springs
Jazzville welcomes Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys swing quintet perform obscure, naughty, and lovely songs from the 1910s to 1930s.
Time & Location
Jan 27, 2022, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PST
Palm Springs, 401 E Amado Rd, Palm Springs, CA 92262, USA
About The Event
Jazzville welcomes Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys swing quintet perform obscure, naughty, and lovely songs from the 1910s to 1930s.
About this event
Come out for a night in the old gin mill as Jazzville welcomes back Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys, a swing quintet who perform obscure, naughty, and lovely songs from the 1910's, 1920's, and 1930's. With her sleek bob haircut (usually with a flower placed just so), vintage fashion sense, strikingly beautiful looks and artfully customized ukulele, Janet Klein might seem at first to be a simple novelty act, a 21st-century hipster "ironically" recreating the subtly naughty looks of a fin-de-siecle French postcard. Then she opens her mouth to sing...
There's no Betty Boop hiccups or Mae West-style brassiness in her charmingly original voice. And when she starts to play her ukulele, it's clear that this oft-ridiculed cousin of the guitar is neither prop nor gimmick,…
