Daryl Sherman - My Blue Heaven

Styles:  Vocal
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:03
Size: 115,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:29)  1. I Walk a Little Faster
(4:26)  2. Wouldn’t It Be Loverly
(5:42)  3. Feel Like Makin’ Love
(4:10)  4. Lets Go Live in a Lighthouse
(3:43)  5. Cycling Along with You
(4:04)  6. Inside a Silent Tear
(3:37)  7. My Blue Heaven/ A O Zora
(4:20)  8. You Turned the Tables on Me
(4:06)  9. Fly Me to the Moon
(3:32) 10. You Wanna Bet
(4:20) 11. The Brooklyn Bridge
(3:29) 12. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Singers who perform in public as they must have singular obstacles to face in performance.  Even though the ringing cash register is now a museum piece, there are so many extraneous sounds to surmount even when the audience is properly quiet and (imagine this!) everyone’s smartphone is shut off.  Dishes and glasses clink; the waitstaff murmurs details of the specials, offers a dessert menu, presents the bill.  The presumed answer to this is amplification, which can make a quiet sound audible at the back of the room, but in the process coarsens every nuance. A CD session recorded in a studio has its own set of obstacles: the creative artist may be restricted to one small space, may be burdened with headphones and be banished into a booth . . . but we don’t see these travails, and the sound we hear through our speakers is a kinder representation of the human voice. And the Orchestra with Vocal Refrain is Daryl, piano and vocals, with Harvie S, string bass, on tracks 2 and 10.  It’s a delightfully old-fashioned CD: twelve tracks, fifty minutes, but no need to turn it over. From the start, it’s a wonderful chance to hear Daryl “her ownself”as we might say in the Middle West a century ago.  She is of course her own splendid accompanist, and her two selves never get in each other’s way.  And I would direct some pianists who revere Tatum as their model to her spare, pointed accompaniment. Her voice is the true delight here.  

Daryl sounds so much like herself, and is I think instantly recognizable, although one may call to mind Mildred Bailey, Blossom Dearie, and Dave Frishberg as musical colleagues and inspirations.  I think she’s been undervalued because of what sounds (to the casual listener) like girlish charm, a high sweet voice with a conversational, sometimes wry delivery. But once the listener is into this CD for more than a chorus, the absence of other instrumentalists allows us to hear emotional depth beneath the apparent light-heartedness.  This isn’t to say that the disc veers towards the dark or maudlin, but there is a true adult sensibility that makes even the most familiar material shine as if beautifully polished and lit.  And even if you think you know how Daryl sings and plays, I submit that this CD is her masterpiece to date, sending us gentle immediacy of the most rare kind. It’s a wonderful one-woman show, with nothing to excess, and a CD I’d like to send to many singers to show ’em how it can be done...More https://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/a-private-recital-daryl-shermans-blue-heaven/

My Blue Heaven                 

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