Album Review: If Love Were All from Wayne Powers
Album: If Love Were All Artist: Wayne Powers Label: Kabockie Records Website: www.waynepowers.com Blues crooner Wayne Powers sings the praises of love found and pines over love lost on his latest offering If Love Were All from Kabookie Records. Each track is a dreamy swinging tune with his caressing vocals sweeping across the melodic musings of Keith Davis on piano, Ziad Rable on tenor saxophone, and Al Sergel on drums. His tenor register is aurally pleasing to listeners as he traipses through a selection of jazz standard favorites. The warmth he projects in his interpretation of "Body and Soul" lulls the listener into a dream state as Davis's keys blanket the melody in a downy bedding. The pathos in Powers's vocal nuances inject genuine emotion into Billy Strayhorn's timeless ballad "Lush Life," whisking the listener away as Rable's saxophone bastes the melody in slow simmering swells. The sensitivity Powers displays in his treatment of the ...