Stingray Music highlights VIII

Good selections that I heard yesterday:

Canadian Indie

• Inside And Out-Feist (A good cover of a Bee Gees chart-topper, "Love You Inside Out.")

Cocktail Lounge 

• Seu Encanto-Marcos Valle (A smooth, uptempo blend of vocals, saxophone, flute, keyboard, bass, and drums.)

Cool Jazz 

• Birds-Branco Stoysin (Elements of Latin jazz, smooth jazz, and traditional jazz come together in this guitar piece.  Also recommended: Stoysin's versions of "Look To The Sky" and "'Round Midnight.")

Folk Roots

• 4 June 1989-Mary Chapin Carpenter (What was it like to be a soldier who had to follow orders during the massacre in Tiananmen Square?  This is one soldier's account.  Carpenter, as usual, tackles a difficult subject gracefully.)

Jazz Masters

• Deep Night-Sonny Clark (A solid, straight ahead, piano-anchored tune.)
• Good Lookin' Out-Stanley Turrentine & Shirley Scott (Strong dialogue between saxophone and organ.)

Smooth Jazz

• Good Day-Peter White (A breezy guitar track that's easy on the ears.)
• Ordinary People-Al Jarreau & George Benson (A pleasant, laid back groove that, at times, brings to mind a Luther Vandross melody, "Don't Want To Be A Fool.")