Jenny Davis – It Amazes
Me (Jazz Vocal CD)
Sound: B Music:
B
Jenny Davis is yet another talented singer who loves
classic Jazz vocal standards and her new album It Amazes Me (2005) seems
properly titled in its covers of classics as follows:
1) It Don’t
Mean A Thing
2) What’ll
I Do/Tennessee Waltz
3) Born To
Be Blue
4) Joy
Spring
5) Dindi
6) It
Amazes Me
7) Dat Dere
8) Make
Someone Happy
9) Beautiful
Love
10) Scrapple From The Apple/Honeysuckle Rose
11) You Don’t Know What Love Is
12) Answer The Call
13) Just Squeeze Me
Jazz fans are more likely to be familiar with most of the
choices than the general public, though track 8 was once “altered” to sell a
popular boxed cake mix. Track 1 is a
Duke Ellington classic that may be just a little overly abused, while track 2
comes close to having suffered the same fate.
Track three was co-written by Mel Torme, known as “The Velvet Throat”
and makes for one of the more interesting choices here. Davis wrote the 12th track, while
the album ends in a lucky 13th track, another Ellington classic that
has not been as abused. Overall, a
decent album with really good singing that you will want to get if you like the
material or a vocalist who does not mistake rolling for singing.
The PCM 2.0 16bit/44.1kHz Stereo is a very good recording,
with detail, clarity and depth a recent recording should have. Kelly Campbell engineered the album, while
Davis herself produced. This was so
good that I was curious as to how an SACD version (2.0 & 5.1) might
sound. Maybe she’ll get the chance for
such a release later.
- Nicholas Sheffo
