Gill Manly - The Lies of Handsome Men (2013)

Gill Manly, once described as Ronnie Scott's Club's favourite jazz diva describes this collection of songs as representing some of the jewels she has guarded in a personal treasure trove of "songs I want to record one day"! Timing of course was the key, as with any artistic and creative process you need to recognize when is the right moment to use a composition to represent fully it's content and poetry. The title track "The Lies of Handsome Men" is a tongue in cheek biographical nod to her own past! What a song though, and inspired by listening to Blossom Dearie perform it back in the 80's in the dark of the Pizza on the Park Music Room.