Steve Tyrell (3)

STEVE TYRELL - THIS TIME OF THE YEAR (2002)

1. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

2. Winter Wonderland

3. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

4. The Christmas Song

5. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

6. This Time Of The Year

7. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

8. I'll Be Home For Christmas

9. The Christmas Blues

10. Merry Christmas Baby

11. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

12. Here Comes Santa Claus

This Time of Year serves up R&B and jazzy Christmas music from a singer whose style lies between the sophisticated elegance of Tony Bennett and the soulful grit of Dr. John. Tyrell clearly has a ball covering "The Christmas Song" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," the latter featuring the great jazz trumpeter Clark Terry. Though Tyrell has a versatile backing band, the arrangements on these seasoned classics are on the safe side. But he really nails the sentiment of the holiday on the soulful title track. Here, Tyrell showcases his vocal prowess, using color and nuance to underscore the season's good cheer. A little more adventurousness would have lifted the CD above a solid stocking stuffer. --Martin Keller

STEVE TYRELL - BACK TO BACHARACH (2008)

1. Walk On By
2. The Look Of Love
3. This Guy
4. One Less Bell To Answer
5. What The World Needs Now
6. Reach Out For Me
7. I Say A Little Prayer For You
8. I Just Don't Know What To Do
9. There's Always Something There To Remind Me
10. Don't Make Me Over
11. Close To You
12. A House Is Not A Home
13. Alfie
14. Raindrops

Personnel: Darryl Tookes, Lauren Tyrell, Fred White , LaTanya Hall, Lynne Fiddmont (vocals, background vocals); Springhurst Elementary School Harmonaires (vocals); Bob Mann (guitar, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, synthesizer); Abe Appleman, Barry Finclair, Karl Kawahara, Anne Leathers, Shinwon Kim, Richard Sortomme, Carol Webb, Jonathan Dinklage (violin); Karen Ritscher, Vince Lionti (viola); Semyon Fridman, Roger Shell (cello); Warren Luening (trumpet, flugelhorn); Herb Alpert (trumpet); Lew Soloff, Matt Fronke (flugelhorn); Dave Bargeron (baritone horn); Burt Bacharach (piano, keyboards); Kenny Ascher, Quinn Johnson (piano); Guy Moon (organ); Jon Allen (keyboards); Allan Schwartzberg (drums, percussion); John Guerin (drums); Dorian Holley, Patti Austin (background vocals).

STEVE TYRELL - STANDARD TIME (2001)

1. It Had to Be You
2. Until the Real thing Comes Along
3. Ain’t Misbehaving
4. That Old Feeling
5. Baby, It’s Cold Outside
6. Stardust
7. It All Depends On You
8. As Time Goes By
9. I wonder
10. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
11. Why I Was Born
12. Let’s Fall in Love
13. Our Love is here to Stay
14. Someone to Watch Over Me
15. Everytime We say Goodbye
16. Remembering "Sweets"

John Guerin - drums
Bob Cranshaw
Bob Mann - guitar
Alan Pasqua - piano
Allan Schwartzberg - drums, percussion
Bob Magnusson
Steve Tyrell
Chuck Berghoffer - bass
Harry "Sweet" Edison - trumpet
Bobby Ginsburg - percussion
Kenny Asher

Also: Plas Johnson, Joe Sample, Toots Thielemans, Clark Terry, Jane Monheit