Cheryl Bentyne - Talk Of The Town (2004)

At first, Cheryl's voice is likely to strike a casual listener as "plain" and just unsexy. No Krall sultriness or Monheit melodrama–hers is a voice devoid of breathiness and emotive, coloratura effects. In fact, a great deal of its charm is its refusal to change its identity from the ensemble sound so essential to her effectiveness as a member of Manhattan Transfer. I'm getting no sense of "attitude," no heightening of lyric drama, no unwarranted projection of the "big" notes. This is singing that's as transparent and unaffected as it gets and also as competent.

Tracklist:

01. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
02. They Can't Take That Away From Me
03. Little Butterfly
04. Very Thought of You, The
05. Love Me or Leave Me
06. Everything Happens to Me
07. Farmer's Market
08. Talk Of The Town / Get Out Of Town
09. Girl Talk
10. Meaning of the Blues
11. It Might as Well Be Spring
12. These Foolish Things
13. Still Good Friends