Noted jazz veterans to play in Port Jervis

PORT JERVIS — Ellen Kaye and Ethan Fein will bring their blues, jazz, contemporary and classic tunes to Carmine's Chianti Cow Restaurant this Saturday.

The performances will accompany a Mediterranean dinner and wine pairing.

Nightclub singer Ellen Kaye has performed in some of New York City's most prestigious rooms, including Town Hall and with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. She's appeared regularly at the noted jazz club The Iridium, the Metropolitan Room, and other New York City venues.

Kaye's recordings include "Ice Wine: Songs for Christmas and Dark Winter Nights, "3AM: The Dogs, the Milkman and Me," and a single of Dar Williams's, "When I Was a Boy," which she performed at the United Nations in 2012 on behalf of the Metro New York Chapter of UN Women.

She brought down the house nightly for the past two years at Moscow 57, her restaurant on Delancey Street in New York City. The restaurant closed recently, and Kaye and her partners Ethan Fein and Seth Goldman have brought on a new partner and are looking for a new place to create their food and music. She grew up in the world of The Russian Tea Room, which her parents owned from 1947 to 1996.

Ethan Fein is Moscow 57's musical director. He produced some of Kaye's recordings and has been her personal musical director for more than four years.

He has been a guitarist/accompanist since 1969, recording with Oliver, Eartha Kitt, Bernadette Peters, Joel Grey, Carole King, Kristin Chenoweth, Gregory Hines, Ben Vereen, Ann Hampton Callaway, Regis Philbin, Nell Carter, Maureen McGovern, Cy Coleman, Ann Reinking, Tony Randall, and the Queens Symphony Orchestra, among others. On Broadway, he was the guitarist in "Cats" for more than 18 years. He was the substitute guitarist on the 1980 revival of "West Side Story," "42nd Street," and "The Full Monty."

As a composer, Fein is co-writing a new musical, The Black Russian, with Vladimir Alexandrov,. The project is being directed by Mercedes Ellington, granddaughter of Duke Ellington, and premiered at Moscow 57 in April 2015.