Album Review: Come Fly with Me from Judy Whitmore
Album: Come Fly with Me Artist: Judy Whitmore Website: https://www.judywhitmore.com/ The assortment of serenades, ballads, and torchlight tunes performed by vocalist Judy Whitmore on her latest release Come Fly with Me is an invitation to audiences to come along with her through a number of classic ballroom favorites from the Great American Songbook. Her vocals particularly shine in “On an Evening in Roma," as her phrasing lures the listener along a dreamy jaunt with a playful hook in her resonance. The subdued spurts of Hendrik Meurkens's harmonica have an elegant scribe, adding a pleasurable texture to the melody. The starlight glitter emanating from the instrumentation in "Moonlight in Vermont" form beams of light around Whitmore's vocals as the floating strings swirl gracefully across the melodic progressions. Meurkens returns for "April in Paris" decking the track with soaring twizzles on his harmonica. Changing course, Whitmore performs a...