DAMSELS AND DIVAS…Dawn Lambeth: I Get Ideas, Ale Nunez: Blue Room

The speaker sex…

Vocalist Dawn Lambeth sings with a cozy Debbie Reynolds clarity on this albulm of standards with Jaob Zimmerman/as-cl-arr, Danny Tobias/tp-ah, Chris Dawson/p, Luca Pino/g, Sam Rocha/b and Josh Colazo/dr. She’s comfy and clear on the upbeat and steady guitar pulsed “Practice Makes Perfect” and slinky around Zimmerman’s sax on “Thief In The Night”. She pops out of the cake on the peppy “You Are My Lucky Star” and is sweet around Tobias’ trumpet for “It Happened In Monterey”. Gotta Dance!

Vocalist Ale Nunez shows that less is more as she dresses down in an intimate setting of standards with Peter Bernstein/g and Neil Swainson/b. Her voice is a mix of Doris Day innocence and Ella Fitzgerald bounce, coy on the savory “I’m Just A Lucky So and So” and comfort food rich on “Blue Room”. She glides through an intimate “You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To” and sparkles like a star on “Lilttle Girl Blue”. She’ll charm  your socks off, drawing you in on “You Stepped Out Of A Dream” and oozes with Bernstein on “There’s A Small Hotel”. Less is more.