Steve Ross: Easy to Love—Songs of Cole Porter

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 latest return to Birdland, he tops off tunes by Great American Songbook king Cole Porter, the worldly wit, sophisticate and musical magpie behind such shows as Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate and Can-Can.