Singing jazz standards will never go out of style; the songbook is too fertile, the audience too willing, and the erstwhile jazz vocalists (at least women) too plentiful. The result is a market clotted with a legion of releases where the signal-to-noise ratio is not favorable for the independent artists. But some worthy examples do rise to the surface, fed by deserved attention and fine musicality. Vocalist Lisa Maxwell fights back from the mouthful bilateral vocal fold paresis with surgery and the release of an uncommon collection of standards from the golden age of Tin Pan Alley...

Tracklisting:

01 You d Be So Nice To Come Home To (Cole Porter)
02 Meditation (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
03 Lazy Afternoon (LaTouche, Moross)
04 I Hadn t Anyone Till You (Ray Noble)
05 Love Dance (Lins, Martin)
06 Call Me (Tony Hatch)
07 The Shadow of Your Smile (Mandel, Webster)
08 Isn t it a Pity (George & Ira Gershwin)
09 What are You Doing New Years Eve (Frank Loesser)
10 My Romance (Rodgers & Hart)
11 Moonlight Savings Time (Kahl, Richman)