★★★★★
Sammy Cahn, to whom Steve Tyrell pays tribute with this baker's dozen of predictably charming tracks, has long remained one of the most severely underrated tunesmiths. Despite more Academy Award nominations than any songwriter in Hollywood history (and four wins), Cahn's name is rarely placed where it belongs--in the same exalted league as Berlin, Porter and Gershwin...
- jazztimes.com
2013-08-16
★★★★★
This is surely the first jazz album ever inspired by Chelsea Clinton. Actually, it was Chelsea's dad, no stranger to jazz, who ignited the idea when, in late 2010, he caught up with Steve Tyrell during the singer's annual festive-season stint at the Café Carlyle. There, the ex-President revealed that father and daughter danced to Tyrell's "The Way You Look Tonight" at Chelsea's wedding...
- jazztimes.com
2012-04-30
★★★★★
Singer, producer, and composer Steve Tyrell was born in Texas and grew up in Houston's 5th Ward. As a teenager, he performed in local R & B bands and at 19 he landed a job as a staff producer in New York at indie label Scepter Records. Tyrell was soon promoted to head of A & R and promotions and began to work with some of America's greatest songwriters; Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann, and Carole King...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
For my money, there are no finer two-and-a-half minutes in the pop-jazz vocal pantheon than Frank Sinatra, backed by Count Basie and his Orchestra, traveling at V8 cruising speed through Quincy Jones' arrangement of "Fly Me to the Moon" on 1964's It Might As Well Be Swing. So news that Steve Tyrell had, as part of this 14-track Sinatra homage, recorded a note-for-note replica immediately set off alarm bells. No need, it turned out, to panic...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Veteran producer and songwriter Steve Tyrell's collection of 17 standards-three of which were included on the soundtracks of the '90s Father of the Bride remakes-is clearly designed as a blue-chip item, featuring a string orchestra, guest appearances by Harry Edison, Clark Terry, Toots Thielemans, Joe Sample and Plas Johnson, William Claxton photography and sticker endorsements by Woody Allen and Burt Bacharach...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
If you're ever in a music store and, for whatever unfathomable reason, feel the urge to buy either of Rod Stewart's Great American Songbook albums, rest assured that there's an easy antidote. Put the disc down, step away from the poseur rack, walk directly to the legit jazz vocal section and grab a copy of Steve Tyrell's latest, This Guy's in Love...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
After vocalist Steve Tyrell released his 1999 CD of standards called A New Standard on Atlantic, no one knew at that time that Tyrell would be the new standard for standard singers. After staying on the charts for more than 90 weeks, people were wondering how he could follow that. He has done it with his new release on Columbia Standard Time...
- www.jazzreview.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Even though this is just his second album, Steve Tyrell is no beginner to the music business. He has been a successful producer and songwriter composing hits such as "How Do You Talk to an Angel" and "Hold On". Singing with a slightly raspy tone, sort of a combination of Ray Charles and Hoagy Carmichael, Tyrell's versions of this set of classic standards are pleasant enough, but certainly not compelling. It isn't because the album producers haven't tried...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
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