RON KAPLAN / Lounging Around:

Kaplan goes into his back catalog to remoter and retool an earlier album to great effect. One of the best under the radar jazz singers around today, he does a bang up job on basic classics like "Blues in the Night", "Cry Me a River", "Moaning" and "What a Wonderful World". You can't do these songs wrong unless you make that extra effort to screw up or have no talent, but it takes that something extra to give these tunes that something extra. A nicely mature work from a guy that loves his job.