Velvet Moon settles into the Piazza Lounge for a night built around the Great American Songbook, the kind of set where a small combo works through standards while a singer leans into the microphone and talks to the room between tunes. It's the lounge tradition that Vegas practically invented: no big stage, no distance, just a vocalist and musicians close enough to see the room reacting in real time.

The Piazza Lounge, tucked near the main entrance of the Tuscany, is the kind of low-key room where this sound belongs — a non-smoking space with cheap drinks and a stage set right at table level. Expect the warmth and swing of jazz standards, the blue notes and easy phrasing of songs written decades ago but still bending to whoever's singing them tonight.