Since the earliest days of jazz New York City has been a beacon for performers looking to make a go of it. From the teens and 20s through the 40s and 50s, the 70s, and right through to today generations of jazz musicians have seen a move to the Big Apple as the next stage of their development.

Once there, those generations mingle, the younger learning from the older, while also keeping their elders on their toes.

I Double Dare You, the new album from veteran Terry Waldo, and rising star Tatiana Eva-Marie is a great example of what results from that mixing. Balancing Waldo’s experience and Eva-Marie’s finger on the pulse they have produced a collection of timeless tracks, gathered from the American Songbook, that should please serious jazz fans of every generation.

1. Do Do Do
2. Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home
3. Button Up Your Overcoat
4. Deep Purple
5. Be Sweet To Me
6. The Very Thought Of You
7. I Double Dare You
8. I Must Have That Man
9. Take A Picture Of The Moon
10. Back In Your Own Backyard
11. Runnin’ Wild
12. Two Sleepy People

The new recording opens on the sumptuous Do Do Do and the more strident Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home and then we get the smile-enducing Button Up Your Overcoat, the luxuriant Deep Purple and both the perky Be Sweet To Me and the lunging beauty within The Very Thought Of You is brought frtoh.

Along next is the ragtime shuffle of the titular I Double Dare You and the dutiful, aching balladry of I Must Have That Man, and they are backed by the smoothly cultured Take A Picture Of The Moon, the upbeat, New Orleans-esque Back In Your Own Backyard, the album rounding out on the aptly-titled, fervent and soulful Runnin’ Wild, closing on the veritably shimmering Two Sleepy People

www.terrywaldo.com

www.tatianaevamarie.com

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