Ron Kaplan - New York (Kapland Records) www.RonKaplan.com www.greatamericansongbook.org

First Class smooth Vocal Jazz tribute to New York and The Great American Songbook. Classy!

It is one of the coolest recent records, away from the clamors and edicts of the record industry survival. It is the album of Ron Kaplan, one of the last TRUE singers of the boundless American Songbook that is at the base of singing Jazz. Dedicated to New York, which is also the title of the album, the most recent record of Kaplan, will be liked not only by jazz lovers in the tradition of Johnny Hartman and Mark Murphy (to which Ron resembles a little) but also by those who like the style, the class, and the elegance of the new Mods, in short all the patrons of Lounge Bars or Supper Clubs. Produced in sunny California not to be swallowed by that immense black hole that is the “Big Apple”, New York is a an album “like the good old days” to use an oral anachronism that is strongly in contrast with today's music. Yet it’s more than that: Kaplan and his band (Larry Dunlap at the piano, Seward McCain on bass, Akira Tana on drums, Erik Jacabson on trumpet and Noel Jewkes on saxophone and clarinet, a well compact combo as mentioned in “42nd Street” of Dubin and Warren) produces 12 of the most beautiful songs written for “the city that never sleeps” and it reassures us of the presence of a high level mainstream jazz (the one that is usually at Club Iridium, to be clear) a testimony of how few cosmopolitan cities with opportunities are left in the flat market of today's world. Enjoy!

Ernesto de Pascale (English translation by Sheila Hurley)

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