Bob Malone }-- Reviews

earBuzz Review: The Fabulous Baker Boys did not have it as good as Bob Malone. True, the Baker's singer was sultry and sexy, with a voice that could melt a heart - but Bob Malone has teamed with the Renee Safier - and Safier has a vocal gift from heaven, with her sensual smooth (yet delightfully rough at times) tone and artistic line direction in her performances. Here, assembled for your pleasure, are 11 torch tune beauties, that provide Safier with about as ideal an environment to showcase her sultry, sexy voice as possible. This is the type of voice that could not only melt a heart, but perhaps the entire polar ice cap (and you thought global warming was because of co2). The record includes the ample instrumental talents of Bob Malone, who's comping and touch on the pearlies is a compliment to Renee's interpretations. Bob also provides the occasional vocal contributions that land halfway between Tom Waits and Buster Poindexter - a nice contrast to Renee's seemingly innocent delivery. Highlights include: "Embraceable You"; "Why Don't You Do Right"; a wonderful "Our Love Is Here To Stay", and the best (for last) in track 11's "One For My Baby", where Malone and Safier emerge as a tremendous musical team as they sing 'one for my baby, and one more for the road'. Pure Magic Music, more fabulous and two less than a Baker's dozen.