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Evil Monkey Man, the new CD by singer-songwriter David Yazbek, the Tony Award-nominated composer of The Full Monty and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, will be released on February 26 by Ghostlight Records.

The CD will contain 14 original songs, including "Monkey Baby Hanging on Chicken Wire," "That Old Lucky Sun," "Bazooka Joe," "It Isn't Fair," and "Eight Evil Men." Yazbek will be accompanied by musicians Erik Della Penna, Mike DuClos, Dean Sharenow, and Tony Orbach on the CD.

Yazbek will preview some of the album's selections at his American Songbook concert at the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center on February 9.