{"id":3362,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/cheryl-bentyne-the-book-of-love\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"cheryl-bentyne-the-book-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3362","title":{"rendered":"Cheryl Bentyne &#8211; The Book of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/TheBookofLove.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Cheryl Bentyne\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\"\/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>Cheryl Bentyne<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:18px\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  <strong>The Book of Love<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\">(Telarc &#8211; 2006)<br \/> by Carmen Miller<\/p>\n<p><\/font>  <font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"000000\">  &#8220;The Book of Love&#8221; is nine-time Grammy winner Cheryl Bentyne&#8217;s third solo recording (apart from the Manhattan Transfer.) The theme of the CD follows the track of a love affair from the thrill of infatuation and flirting to longing to lust to eventual disillusion and ultimately to <em>goodbye<\/em>. Cute concept, but I was focused more on enjoying the CD, which ranges from just Cheryl and a lone guitarist on &#8220;Be My Love&#8221; to a rich 60-piece string orchestra on tunes like &#8220;You Don&#8217;t Know Me,&#8221; &#8220;You Go To My Head&#8221; and the classic &#8220;Cry Me A River.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;The Book of Love&#8221; title track features guest vocalists <strong>Mark Kibble<\/strong> and <strong>Alvin Chea <\/strong> (from Take 6) and <strong>John Pizzarelli <\/strong>puts in a little vocal work on the duet &#8220;Blue Moon&#8221;. All in all a pretty good CD, but I think the best songs are those where she had guest vocal partner(s) because that plays to her strengths&#8230; just like being in the Transfer. <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Personnel: Cheryl Bentyne (vocals); Zoe Allen, John Pizzarelli, Mark Kibble, Alvin Chea (vocals); Grant Geissman, Wayne Johnson (guitar); Charlie Bisharat (violin); Armen Ksajikian (cello); Bob Sheppard (tenor saxophone); Chris Tedesco (trumpet); Corey Allen (piano, keyboards); Bill Cantos (piano); Kevin Axt (bass guitar); Dave Tull (drums); Don Alias, Scott Breadman (percussion); The City Of Prague Symphony.<br \/><\/font>               <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/font><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheryl Bentyne The Book of Love(Telarc &#8211; 2006) by Carmen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}