- A Beautiful Friendship
- I Thought About You
- Maybe in a dream
- Let’s Leave
- Moonglow
- What Ever Happened
- P.S. I Love You
- Spirit of St. Louis
- You Are the One for Me
- A Second Chance
- They Didn’t Believe Me
Jeremy Davenport - Vocals & Trumpet
Diana Krall – Vocal on ‘Let’s Leave’
Glenn Patscha – Piano
Peter Washington – Bass
Gregory Hutchinson - Drums
Recorded in NYC, March 11 – 14, 1997
In a 16 page sleeve note
TELARC give all the words for all the songs,
but say not a word about Jeremy Davenport
or the superb trio that backs him on this
CD! The more I do this job, the less I understand
about the people who produce and sell recordings.
Jeremy Davenport has excellent diction and
if I wanted the words to any of the songs,
it would be very easy to write them down.
That said however, this is an excellent album
and I shall make it my business to find out
more about Jeremy Davenport who is both a
fine singer and a terrific trumpet player.[see
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Maybe in a Dream, Let’s Leave,
What Ever Happened, Spirit of St Louis and
A Second Chance are all Jeremy Davenport compositions,
Diana Krall joins him for the vocal on Let’s
Leave, surely an asset to any album.
Glenn Patscha plays excellent
piano throughout, on Moonglow he duets with
Davenport to very good effect, but it is the
sound of the trio as a whole that I like.
Jeremy is obviously well
steeped in the jazz tradition and not afraid
to draw from the past, a facet of any jazz
player that I feel is essential.
The original compositions
fit well in to the context of the CD and the
lyrics are well crafted, I particularly liked
What Ever Happened, a tune worthy of regular
hearing. It has a fine piano chorus from Glenn
Patscha and a nice exchange of four bar breaks
between drummer Gregory Hutchinson and the
leader.
Jeremy, though obviously
a different kind of player, is bound to draw
comparisons with the legendary Chet Baker.
Lets hope that his life manages to keep on
an even keel unlike the unfortunate Baker,
probably one of the most talented of jazz
musicians that ever lived, but with a life
full of tragedy. Diana Krall has managed to
combine being an excellent jazz pianist and
singer with being commercially successful,
I hope Jeremy manages to do the same, he deserves
to!
You are the One for Me is
a jaunty original, well delivered by Jeremy
on both vocal and trumpet. Once again the
trio is superb, what anyone would give to
play with a rhythm section like that! A Second
chance has a nice Latin feel to it.
As my regular readers know,
I don’t like albums full of original tunes
that don’t shape up to the great standard
tunes of the past. I am pleased to report
that on this album they do and that the mixture
of familiar and unfamiliar adds to its fascination.
Buy it!
Don Mather
CD Reviews
TELARC CD-83409 
