Title: Girl Talk
Product review: Cheryl Bentyne's "Talk of the Town" is a great mellow exploration in the great jazz standards of the last century. Two songs are my very favorites. The swinging Basie-style arrangement on "Girl Talk" pulses with an entrancing groove, "We like to chat about the dresses we will wear tonight," as she sings with the great clarity of jazz expression of which Ella Fitzgerald was master. The opening version of Cole Porter's "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" places the exquisite melody front and center and floats by like the gentlest of breezes.Other tracks on the CD are also strong. "The Very Thought of You" is so dreamily romantic that it casts a lovely spell. Hoagy Carmichael's "Everything Happens to Me" is one of those good-to-be-blue tunes we'd like to hear with last call on which Lewis Nash's cymbals and David "Fathead" Newman's elegant sax blend exquisitely. The scat on "Farmer's Market" always brings a smile! Bentyne does a great job center stage on this fine set. Enjoy!
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