ABOUT
CELEBRITY JAZZ NYC
At CJNYC, we are dedicated to bringing the timeless elegance and vibrant energy of all music genres to private events and educational programs. Our mission is to create unforgettable experiences by featuring legendary and famous musicians and singers who captivate and inspire. We aim to elevate every occasion with the soul-stirring sounds of music artistry, ensuring that each performance, classes and master classes are a memorable celebration. Through our commitment to excellence and passion for the musical arts, we strive to be the premier provider of world-class entertainment and educational programs for discerning clients who seek the extraordinary.
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10% of our fees paid to our artists for performing at private events, will support teens and young adults with cancer.
Celebrity Jazz NYC is a proud supporter of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Mark Berman
Co-founder
You can hear Mark on piano and keyboard playing the theme of the HBO series Sex and the City. Berman has written additional music for the program and can be seen on an episode. He has also written music for Bravo, the Food Network, Nurse Jackie, the Showtime series and a variety of network daytime series.
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​He is represented off-Broadway by his original music compositions for the acclaimed revival of Sidney Howard's comedy/drama The Late Christopher Bean, directed by Jenn Thompson for TACT at the Beckett. He also music directed, conducted and played piano for the New York Musical Theatre Festival production of Seeing Stars, a new musical set in the world of boxing, written by Don and Jeff Breithaupt with a book by Shelley McPherson, also directed by Jenn Thompson.
Among Berman's television appearances are The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, PBS, and a variety of soap operas.
He has performed in jazz clubs around the world including The Blue Note, Rainbow Room, Birdland, The Cutting Room, B.B. King's, the Supper Club and Top of the Rock at Rockefeller Center. Berman has appeared at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, at Merkin Hall at Lincoln Center, and can be heard on numerous recordings. More
Joy Lober Anderson
Co-founder
Having sung for four US Presidents, and touring with the likes of Jazz legend Buddy DeFranco, Country great Hoyt Axton (A & M Records), singing a duet with Michael Jackson on the hit recording "One Day in Your Life" (Motown Records), and performing the lead role as Eva Peron in the National Tour of Evita for 2 1/2 years, (ALT) under the direction of Broadway's most legendary director Harold Prince and working directly Andrew Lloyd Webber. Joy also had the privilege to be the featured solo opening act for Comedic legends Red Skelton and Dom DeLuise and has also written songs and performed songs that can be heard on HBO films and PBS specials as well source music for several featured films starring Tom Hanks and also Jessica Lang. Joy is clearly diversified in many aspects of the "Real-Deal" entertainment industry and is now "passing the torch" along with illustrious Broadway, many Tony Award winners, to the next generation of aspiring performers.
Joy is founder and executive director of The Broadway Mentors Program, is from a third generation “Show Biz” family. Her father was a child vaudeville star who tapped and sang with the likes of Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor, while her grandmother Edith played piano for silent picture shows. Edith became a vocal coach. While other children baked cookies with their grandmothers, Joy was learning songs at the piano as mom-mom Edith coached the tiny tot.
Joy started out, like most young performers passionate about their paths, by joining a prominent Philadelphia landmark community theater at the age of 11, attending rehearsals after school and working every weekend with lead roles in Children Show productions. The training and mentoring was priceless, as Joy watched the adults in rehearsals for the evening productions. The adult actors taught the kids the discipline needed to be on time, to know their lines and music, and most of all to give more than 100 percent of their heart, soul, and talent to their craft.
At the age of 20 Joy was the featured vocalist with The Glenn Miller Orchestra under the direction of jazz legend Buddy DeFranco touring the US, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and England. Joy then toured the United States as a member of the The New Christy Minstrels. At 21 Joy performed in her first Actor’s Equity Production – “Company” starring George Maharis and Vivian Blaine (Guber/Gross Productions) under the direction of Jerry Adler and choreographed by Dan Siretta.
Relocating to Los Angeles in the mid 1970s, Joy was given a full scholarship to the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. She continued her acting studies with the renowned actor and acting teachers Jeff Corey and Gail Kobe.
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Joy was privileged to have shared the stage with Phyllis Diller, Joey Heatherton, Irving Berlin, Sammy Davis Jr., Pat Nixon, and Bob Hope, for the 1974 POW White House performance.
