Cabaret Scenes Review - Daryl Sherman

Tuneful Sunday brunches keep the rhythm going at the Algonquin Oak Room even when Barbara Carroll takes a break. With her breezy swing and lusty piano musicianship, Daryl Sherman sits in for three weekends before vocalist Judy Butterfield steps in.

She shows off the kaleidoscope of colors in her musical repertoire, as polished and shining as a Christmas tree ornament. Her vocals, like her personality, are light and bright, making her first performance, between Christmas and Hanukkah, and New Year's, another delightful pick-me-up. It also contained, however, a range of moods. She included a provocative, dexterous delivery to the various verses of "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," and offered a heartful of despair in her vocal "Little Girl Blue" (both Hart and Rodgers). In a razz-a-ma-tazzy "At the Jazz Band Ball" (Mercer/LaRocca/Sheilds), the championship trio, including Boots Maleson on bass and guitarist James Chirillo on guitar, pulled out all stops.

New Orleans was one of Sherman's salutes in this show. From her latest CD, New O'leans, a winsome original song, ""Wendell's Cat," remembers the animals lost in Hurricane Katrina. "Mr. Bojangles" recognizes the street corner musician with a misty nod to a hard-lived existence. Mercer and Mancini's "Moon River" was impressionism for the aural sense.

"Moon Country," a melange of blues, nostalgia, joy and sadness on a full piano, was Sherman's tribute song to the late jazz trumpeter and historian, Richard Sudhalter. She moved on to salute George Shearing with "Lullaby of Birdland" with Chirillo's guitar taking the melody to Sherman's chords as they chatted musically between themselves. She turned to bassist Boots Maleson for a similar tête-à-tête to Hammerstein and Rodgers s "Many A New Day " from Oklahoma!

Daryl Sherman is mindful of the lyrics she is singing as much as she is to the jazz-bordered roads she can travel with the melodies. Her expertise, well-honed taste, and ardent delivery boost the post-holiday spirit of the Algonquin, dowager queen of cabaret rooms. We could use more of her upbeat jazzy viewpoint.

Daryl Sherman appears at The Algonquin Oak Room on Dec. 28, 2008, Jan. 4 and Jan. 11, 2009

Elizabeth Ahlfors
Cabaret Scenes
December 28, 2008
www.cabaretscenes.org



	Daryl Sherman Oak Room New York, NY
Tuneful Sunday brunches keep the rhythm going at the Algonquin Oak Room even when Barbara Carroll takes a break. With her breezy swing and lusty piano musicianship, Daryl Sherman sits in for three weekends before vocalist Judy Butterfield steps in. She shows off the kaleidoscope of colors in her musical repertoire, as polished and shining as a Christmas tree ornament. Her vocals, like her personality, are light and bright, making her first performance, between Christmas and Hanukkah, and New Year's, another delightful pick-me-up. It also contained, however, a range of moods. She included a provocative, dexterous delivery to the various verses of "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," and offered a heartful of despair in her vocal "Little Girl Blue" (both Hart and Rodgers). In a razz-a-ma-tazzy "At the Jazz Band Ball" (Mercer/LaRocca/Sheilds), the championship trio, including Boots Maleson on bass and guitarist James Chirillo on guitar, pulled out all stops. New Orleans was one of Sherman's salutes in this show. From her latest CD, New O'leans, a winsome original song, ""Wendell's Cat," remembers the animals lost in Hurricane Katrina. "Mr. Bojangles" recognizes the street corner musician with a misty nod to a hard-lived existence. Mercer and Mancini's "Moon River" was impressionism for the aural sense. "Moon Country," a melange of blues, nostalgia, joy and sadness on a full piano, was Sherman's tribute song to the late jazz trumpeter and historian, Richard Sudhalter. She moved on to salute George Shearing with "Lullaby of Birdland" with Chirillo's guitar taking the melody to Sherman's chords as they chatted musically between themselves. She turned to bassist Boots Maleson for a similar tête-à-tête to Hammerstein and Rodgers s "Many A New Day " from Oklahoma! Daryl Sherman is mindful of the lyrics she is singing as much as she is to the jazz-bordered roads she can travel with the melodies. Her expertise, well-honed taste, and ardent delivery boost the post-holiday spirit of the Algonquin, dowager queen of cabaret rooms. We could use more of her upbeat jazzy viewpoint. Daryl Sherman appears at The Algonquin Oak Room on Dec. 28, 2008, Jan. 4 and Jan. 11, 2009 Elizabeth Ahlfors Cabaret Scenes December 28, 2008 www.cabaretscenes.org

Daryl Sherman

Oak RoomNew York, NY

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