Sarah King (vcl/uke); Alex Levin (pno); Scott Ritchie (bs); Ben Cliness (dms).
(Review by Lance).
This is the legend. Alex Levin dreams of adding a vocalist to his already popular trio. One fall afternoon, he spots a young woman walking by Prospect Park in Brooklyn with a ukelele in her hand. He approaches her and asks her to play a song for him. (Note, we don't recommend approaching young women in parks who are carrying ukuleles. Chances are they'll use the ukulele as a shillelagh and smash it over your head before calling the law!)
Her voice, he thinks, is like an old record and he's musically smitten.
Well, that's the story that's going around. Whatever, a rehearsal follows, leading to festival appearances, a residency in a NYC hotel and, subsequently, this delightful CD.
You know what? It could just about have happened that way!
King's voice wraps itself around your heartstrings. It's Billie without the anguish, Blossom as if she'd gone to Nashville instead of Paris, young Ella, Anita with Krupa, maybe (I quote Oscar Levant) Doris before she became a virgin. They're all in the mix and the result is totally Sarah King. Add The Smoke Rings and it's enough to make you go out and buy a pack of Marlborough! No! don't do that, aurally inhale Sarah King and The Smoke Rings instead.
Sample/buy.Lance..
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