Keyed Up! ft. Jeanne Gies & Michael Rorby w/ guests
Frankie & Johnnie's Steakhouse320 West 46th Street, New York 10036
Keyed Up! comes to Frankie & Johnnie’s Steakhouse with featured guests Jeanne Gies and Michael Rorby, plus additional guests. The Friday-night engagement is presented in the restaurant setting of the historic Manhattan steakhouse, where live music takes place downstairs in the bar and lounge alongside dinner and drinks. The listing gives no further details on the group’s instrumentation, repertoire, or the identities of the guest performers.
No background information for Keyed Up!, Jeanne Gies, or Michael Rorby is supplied in the available material. The event is billed as a jazz performance in Midtown Manhattan, but the listing does not identify the musicians’ home bases, previous collaborations, recordings, or critical reception. What is clear is the format: Keyed Up! leads the evening, Gies and Rorby are featured, and further guests are expected to join them.
Originating as a Prohibition-era speakeasy in 1926, this historic Manhattan steakhouse pairs classic dining with live jazz at its downstairs bar and lounge. The venue operates as a full-service restaurant across two levels, setting dark wood and low lighting against a backdrop of live sets where patrons can sip cocktails at the bar or settle into tables for dinner. Rather than a formal ticketed listening room, performances carry no cover charge and supply the soundtrack to an evening of conversation, drinks, and prime steaks. While the upstairs dining room offers a quieter dinner by a working fireplace, the downstairs bar area is where audiences gather on chairs and barstools to hear musicians play up close. Reservations are recommended for full dinner service, though bar seating accommodates casual drop-ins.