Monday Blues

Daryl Sherman Chasing the Monday Blues with a Signature Jazz Sound

Source: Michael Ricci
April 1, 2009

That shopworn description songbird applies to the jazz singer and pianist Daryl Sherman.

Not only because she has a sweet, little-girl lilt embodied in her voice, but also because her musical spirit belongs to an era when jazz singing was an expression of pure enjoyment; Freudian subtexts had yet to tunnel into the core of popular music.

But Ms. Sherman, who is appearing on Monday evenings indefinitely at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel, isnt all sweetness and light. ...
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