John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman Reviews

Male vocal jazz is not 100% my taste but I found this release to be very well done. This was also my first taste to the wonderful voice of Johnny Hartman. He has a deep soft tender tone that, like most male vocalist at the time and before, tended to be very popular. I will say that I think this release would have done better in the 40's or 50's. It just has that approach to it and it actually surprised me to see it on this label when I first got into John Coltrane. Your not gonna find any fast tempo tracks on here. This is something to play over the Christmas holidays or during a romantic dinner. John of course is perfect and at this point it was impossible for him to screw up this style of jazz. Again, I don't own much male vocal jazz but this is a keeper regardless.