Name: It's How You Play the Game
Brand: Audiophile Records
SKU: 963579
Price: 15.82 USD
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It's How You Play the Game

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Album: It's How You Play the Game
#	Song Title	Time
1)	It's How You Play the Game
2)	I Got Lost in His Arms
3)	Be Careful, It's My Heart
4)	Easy to Love
5)	May I Come In?
6)	My Man Benny
7)	Only Trust Your Heart
8)	I Wanna Be in Love Again
9)	First Thing About You, The
10)	Love Looks Good on You
11)	Experiment
12)	Save Your Love for Me
13)	Jazz Buff, The
14)	Cocktails at Dawn
15)	Maybe It's the Moon
16)	All My Tomorrows

Album: It's How You Play the Game
#	Song Title	Time
1)	It's How You Play the Game
2)	I Got Lost in His Arms
3)	Be Careful, It's My Heart
4)	Easy to Love
5)	May I Come In?
6)	My Man Benny
7)	Only Trust Your Heart
8)	I Wanna Be in Love Again
9)	First Thing About You, The
10)	Love Looks Good on You
11)	Experiment
12)	Save Your Love for Me
13)	Jazz Buff, The
14)	Cocktails at Dawn
15)	Maybe It's the Moon
16)	All My Tomorrows

Performer Notes

Personnel: Marlene VerPlanck (vocals); Anat Cohen (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Karolina Strassmayer (alto saxophone); Barbara Laronga (trumpet); Chihiro Yamanaka (piano).
Recording information: 08/08/2003-09/20/2003.
Marlene VerPlanck is a veteran singer who still has plenty to offer jazz fans after nearly a half century as a professional. Her vocals are consistently clear, mellow, and swinging in this program dominated by show tunes. But her choices aren't ones that have exactly been done to death at the start of the 21st century. She soars in the bright bossa nova scoring of "I Got Lost in His Arms," while her warmth is obvious in "Be Careful, It's My Heart." The singer's enthusiasm is contagious in "I Wanna Be in Love Again," while her playful scatting seems effortless in the buoyant "Love Looks Good on You." Her husband, Billy VerPlanck, contributed the arrangements and two originals, the lovely ballad "Cocktails at Dawn" and "It's How You Play the Game," the latter, unfortunately, stands out like a sore thumb due to the annoying (and unaccredited) electric keyboards. But the band is a superb one, featuring no fewer than six members of the exciting big band Diva: drummer Sherrie Maricle, alto saxophonist Karolina Strassmayer, clarinetist and tenor saxophonist Anat Cohen, pianist Chihiro Yamanaka, trumpeter Barbara Laronga, and bassist Norika Ueda. ~ Ken Dryden