Jazz album review: Daryl Sherman - Johnny Mercer – A Centennial Tribute

DARYL SHERMAN
Johnny Mercer – A Centennial Tribute

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Arbors Records ARCD 19388

Singer and pianist Daryl Sherman is something of a New York institution: she has been performing in the city's swankiest spots for years and has amassed a phenomenal knowledge of the Great American Songbook, especially some of its lesser-read pages. On this lovely CD she's joined by such A-listers as Wycliffe Gordon, Howard Alden and Marian McPartland for a Johnny Mercer tribute with a laid-back, joyful feel to it – and with several of the lyricist's more obscure songs as its highlights.

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