VOCALIST MARIANNE MATHENY-KATZ CELEBRATES CHARM CITY'S FERTILE JAZZ SCENE $20.00 Saturday 8/16 7:30 pm   CABARET AT GERMANO'S GERMANO'S PIATTINI 300 S. HIGH STREET LITTLE ITALY   Baltimore, MD 410.752.4515   Marianne Matheny-Katz’s new CD, Somewhere in Paradise, on the Indy label Jazzway, has been receiving significant nationwide airplay and critical acclaim. The new album is the first with Matheny-Katz as band leader and helps establishes her position as one of Baltimore’s reigning jazz divas and prominently features many of the Baltimore –Washington area’s wealth of instrumental jazz talent, as side men and arrangers.   Her new disc serves up superb standards wrapped in new and noteworthy arrangements by Todd Marcus and Warren Wolf, and includes favorites such as “All Blues,” “Fair Weather,” “You Taught My Heart to Sing,” and “The Way You Look Tonight.” She is featuring the album in a series of concerts including the intimate European-style cabaret at Germano’s in Baltimore on August 16. Marianne Matheny-Katz – vocals Craig Alston – saxophones Michael Bowie - bass Vince Evans – piano  John Lamkin III - drums  Todd Marcus - clarinet and bass clarinet Buy Tickets http://www.instantseats.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=buy.event&eventID=8108665D-0E4B-A9B2-BCCBBD039B018506 Website: www.m2kjazz.com    “a captivating singer” who “possesses a quintessential jazz voice, which she enlivens with lissome, conversational phrasing.”  John Murph, Jazz Critic  “Marianne Matheny-Katz’s new CD, Somewhere in Paradise, comes as close to being perfect as any I have heard! The vocalist herself delivers the material superbly, with no affectations or gimmicks and with a great jazz sensibility.”  John Tegler WEAA – 88.9 FM -