It's almost exactly a year to the day since keyboardist/producer
Mike Di Lorenzo released his last album "What We Need" (3 Jun '22) from which a few tracks in particular were well
received.
The latest album "Play It Cool" (3 Jun '23) follows a similar format in that it consists of
mainly original songs sprinkled with a few covers and is split between
instrumentals and songs with featured vocalists.
The same vocalist in fact who featured on the last album i.e.
Anna Moore on four (five) original songs which she co-wrote
with DeLorenzo, Denise Stewart on two covers (Tower of
Power's "So Very Hard To Go" and the Ashford & Simpson penned "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing" made famous of course by Marvin & Tammi) and
Sonna Rele on another original song.
We were really looking forward to listening to "So Very Hard To Go" but
unfortunately the original with Lenny Williams' vocals is so etched in our
mind that this version just can't compare we're sorry to say.
The third and final cover is a predominantly instrumental rendition of
EWF's "That's The Way Of The World" with an unnamed backing vocalist. There is another song, "I Regret", with uncredited vocals but, given that it was co-penned by Anna Moore,
we'd hazard a guess that it is her vocals as it certainly sounds like
her.
We feel that several of the original songs with vocals will be getting
plenty of airplay on certain radio shows! We simply can't call it between
several of them so will let you choose.
Click on image below for link to where you can buy from.
Click icons below for further information or to connect with the
artist.
| Rating: | 8.4 |
| Explicit: | N |
| Genre/Style: | Soul Jazz |
| Format: | Album |
| Media: | Digital |
| Label: | Self Released |
| Cat No: | None |
| Date: | 02/06/2023 |
| Price: | £7.99 |
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