When the blurb describes someone as "A YouTube phenom" I shudder and put the painkillers on standby. However, it seems that Tatiana has indeed had more hits on YouTube than many a more well-known name and it turns out that the Swiss miss now based in Brooklyn has a voice to stand alongside those soft, intimate vocalists such as Blossom, Shirley (Horn), Daryl, Jerri (Sothern) and, of course, Cécile and Samara. Tatiana is in that league.
The songs are sung so beautifully that her renditions must have surely exceeded the composer's wildest expectations.
The End of a Love Affair relates to an experience we have all gone through at one time or another. Penthouse Serenade holds it own even alongside the better known Tony Bennett version. Fly me to the Moon? You, me and everyone in their shower. Sophisticated Lady is, as Sinatra might have said, exactly what this broad is all about. Sophistication oozes from every phrase, every note, every syllable. Frank would have loved it, as would Duke.
I think Ellington may also have 'loved madly' I Got it Bad. You go to my Head most certainly did to mine and The Nearness of You also sent shivers down my spine. But, in my opinion, she saved the best for last.
I first heard You Are Too Beautiful sung by Sinatra in the film Meet Danny Wilson - a film where it would seem that I'm the only one who has ever liked it - then there was Johnny Hartman's version with John Coltrane. And now this. It really is beautiful - can you have too much beauty? Perhaps not as Jeremy Corren's piano backing and soloing adds even more to the lustre of the recording.
Tatiana also gives her friend Mark Buchan a couple of title shots on They'll Never Believe me and I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face. Not quite a contender but no palooka either. In fact he's rather good!
Available June 30 on Turtle Records. Lance
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