Let Me Off Uptown

Cheryl Bentyne | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 26, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Telarc
• ASIN: B0008191BU
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #138,419 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Let Me Off Uptown

2. Pick Yourself Up

3. Honeysuckle Rose

4. Skylark

5. Let's Face The Music And Dance

6. Man With A Horn

7. Boogie Blues

8. It Shouldn't Happen To A Dream

9. Whisper Not

10. Tea For Two

11. Little Girl Blue

12. I Won't Dance

13. Waiter, Make Mine Blues

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Here's that Triple Toe Loop!, May 18, 2005

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Rick Cornell "RC" (Reno, Nv USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let Me Off Uptown (Audio CD)

In last year's review of "Talk of the Town", I likened Ms. Bentyne's effort to an ice skater: I said that she proved there that she could do a fine single axle; but I knew she could do a triple toe loop, and I was looking forward to her next album where she (hopefully) would do that.

What can I say: Here's that triple toe loop! This album is sensational.

Whereas that album was a sort of directionless group of standards, this is an album of songs made famous by Anita O'Day, sung in Ms. O'Day's style. Precious little scatting; but a lot of bending and reshaping of lyrical lines. Check out "Tea for Two", done at warp speed, for example. Wow!

And to my ears, I vastly prefer Cheryl Bentyne to Anita O'Day. The way she caresses songs like "Little Boy Blue" and "Waiter, Make Mine Blues" is just heavenly. Her voice is just so smooth, in a way that few singers' voices are.

And something about this project got to everybody. All of the musicians seemed to drive it up a notch. The whole album sounds sensational.

This is one of the best of the year, so far, and rates a solid 5 any year. Highly recommended. RC

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bravo, Cheryl!!!, May 15, 2005

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B. J. Lane "jazzbo" (Levittown, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let Me Off Uptown (Audio CD)

I have the wonderful opportunity to write my own thoughts on this new CD by the amazing Ms. Bentyne. Here, she pays a long-overdue homage to the divine Miss O - Anita O'Day, by selecting from the very best of her repretoire.

From the opening title track "Let Me Off Uptown," where Jack Sheldon brilliantly captures the essence of Roy Eldridge's contribution to the original, to the closing "Waiter Make Mine Blues," and everything else in between, Cheryl brings her superb talents (on display for many years both solo and with the Manhattan Transfer) to the fore.

Kudos to Mr. Corey Allen for his insightful arrangements and playing, and to the amazing Bill Holman for his brilliant horn charts. Cheryl is one of the few singers who can do justice to the music of this still surviving grande dame of jazz. This rates much more than 5 stars (maybe 100)in my book!!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great jazz vocals, May 28, 2005

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William W. Miller (Sparks, NV United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let Me Off Uptown (Audio CD)

Some really good stuff here. Skylark and A Man with a Horn two of the best. Back up musicians first rate. Will be looking for more Cheryl Bentyne music with anticipation. She may become my favorite female jazz vocalist.