Even not wearing black tie, it’s impossible to feel less than sophisticated watching “The Park Avenue Whirl,” a salute to the glorious music of the ’20s and ’30s. Starring such performers as singer/pianist Daryl Sherman and Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks Orchestra,

Listening to “Ten Minutes Ago,” the skipping waltz on Daryl Sherman’s marvelous tribute to songwriter Richard Rodgers, “A Hundred Million Miracles” (Arbors), a song from a different era suddenly popped into my head —

The Oak Room at the Algonquin is too much of a gem to waste a night. Especially if it can have “Mondays with Daryl Sherman,” currently the weekly attraction apart from the regular Oak Room schedule. Sherman began March 16,

Get rid of Monday. That’s been the lament of hip New Yorkers who for years have searched in vain for something to do on the dullest night of the week. Theaters are dark, cabarets are closed, and there’s no place to go.

What could possibly be more cool, or more sophisticated, than Sunday Jazz Brunch at The Algonquin Hotel with the likes of singer/pianist/entertainer Daryl Sherman and her good friends Boots Maleson on bass and James Chirillo on guitar?

Unless you’re going to a gig in a concert hall, there aren’t really very many opportunities to get dressed up for an evening of jazz these days — which made Daryl Sherman’s opening night show at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival on Friday all the more special.

Daryl put together marvelous, respectful tribute 2008 cd in New Orleans to honor the victims of Hurricane Katrina. I wrote about that cd in “In Tune International” # 202. Now with this cd she triumphantly returns to the bruised city.