Read an interview with Officer about the new album here. Officer said that “It was imperative that I try to capture the ‘truth and honesty’ always prevalent in a Mercer performance. It was her most ...

Read a conversation with Officer about the album and release concert. How were you first exposed to Mabel Mercer? When I moved to New York City in the mid-1980s, I was obsessed with theatre and music.

It’s a shame that more of us don’t know about Mabel Mercer. As KT Sullivan makes clear in Remembering Mabel, running this week at the Crazy Coqs at Brasserie Zedel, Mercer was wrongly memorialised as ...

Bart Howard, the composer of ” Fly Me to the Moon ” and of cabaret songs recorded by Mabel Mercer, Johnny Mathis and many others, died Feb. 21 in Carmel, N.Y. He was 88 and lived in North Salem, N.Y.