Marilyn Maye has been called “The greatest white female singer in the world” by none other than Ella Fitzgerald, Her more than 100 engagements in the last ten years in New York include sold-out multiple-nights at the Metropolitan Room, Birdland, five two-week runs at Feinstein’s at The Loews Regency Hotel, New York’s Town Hall, the 92nd Street Y Theater. Of her May 2016 ten-day run at Feinstein’s 54 Below, her sixth appearance at the venue and just after her 88th birthday, Stephen Holden of the New York Times raved that her performance of Sondheim’s “I’m Still Here” was “the thrilling finale of the most detailed autobiographical show I’ve seen her give.” In spring of 2015 she presented Marilyn Maye, Her Way, A Salute to Sinatra - an 8-day sold-out engagement. Previously, Stephen Holden of the New York Times wrote of her March 2013 shows at 54 Below that “Ms. Maye may be turning 85 in April, but she has more voice and stamina than most singers half her age.” “Wearing a glittering red dress, she could have been Mame, Dolly or any larger-than-life supergal from the Jerry Herman songbook to which she brings more vitality than any other contemporary performer.” Just a year prior, he had similarly raved about her two-week engagement at Feinstein’s in New York, “by the end of the evening, as is usually the case with her shows, I was walking on air, infused with a giddy certainty that life really is a cabaret.” 

Grammy-nominated Marilyn Maye has been called “A National Treasure,” by the Houston Chronicle, performed on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson more than any other singer at 76 appearances, was named an Official Jazz Legend by the American Jazz Museum, and even had her recording of Lerner and Lowe’s “Too Late Now” enshrined as one of The Smithsonian’s Best Performers of the Best Compositions of the 20th Century. In October, 2011 the University of Missouri/Kansas City awarded her the “Lifetime Achievement Award.” In September 2012 she was presented the “Kansas Citian of the Year” Award by the Greater Kansas City Sons & Daughters Association. She is the winner of the coveted Jazz Heritage Award, the 2008 and 2009 Nightlife Critics Award, the BackStage Bistro “Lifetime Achievement Award,” and the MAC “Celebrity of the Year” award for the fourth year in a row: 2009, 2010, 2011, and again in 2012.