Album Review: Once Upon a Summertime from Sharon Sable and Joe Holt
Album: Once Upon a Summertime Artists: Sharon Sable and Joe Holt Label: Self-Released Websites: SharonSableMusic.com JoeHoltNotes.com Vocalist Sharon Sable and pianist Joe Holt fell in love with the music of another time, the classic jazz era, and it shows on their self-released recording Once Upon a Summertime . The pair perceive classic jazz as an era when musicians performed songs that speak directly to people's hearts. From material that has filled the lounges of casinos to the corridors of jazz festivals, Sable and Holt's repertoire contains stimulating reinterpretations of classic tunes and rare novelties. The pair's retweaking of Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's bluesy mid-tempo "You Fascinate Me So" is driven by Sable's smooth vocal strut with Holt's keys punctuating the lifts along the melodic progressions. Stoking a swinging groov...