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Title: Refreshing candor, fine sound
Review: I discovered Jack Jones a few years ago in a splendid tv special done with Mel Torme, Maureen McGovern, and Buddy Rich on the late Tommy Dorsey. This was an exciting program, with Jones and colleagues exuding the enthusiasm one associates with Sinatra's stint with Dorsey.This latest album is Jack Jones in another tribute, in name to Tony Bennett, in fact to what Jones has learned over the years. There's more than a bit of soothing Bennett, Sinatra-with-feeling and, to me at least, the inflections of a Joe Williams.The accompanying trio pays a debt to Ralph Sharon, though with some invention of its own. The sound is very, very fine [albiet with Jones slipping to the background once or twice, maybe to mask a slight weariness in his voice], producing the kind of intimacy which encourages the listener to actually listen.All in all a happy and satisfying album from one of the true ballad singers left in the business. More please!
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