Landing somewhere between the sound of Blossom Dearie and Monica Zetterlund singing with a very American sounding English accent Danish singer Marie Mørck is a retro quite often pingingly pure jazz singer who has been around a little while, debuting with Fooling Around in 2019.
Zesty, full of spirit and a tonic in that regard certainly songs are mainly in English - a Danish language song at the end translated as 'In the Middle of a Dream' is one of the picks. The title track, ''song'' in the singular, is the best thing here. The other originals don't cry out for instant replay as much.
The instrumental arrangements are a little too trad. And the accordion accompaniment on 'Secret Reverie' seems as if it belongs on another record entirely.
The treatment of the Frank Loesser song 'Never Will I Marry' (sung in the 1960s by among others Nancy Wilson, Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand) and more recently and much more compellingly to be frank by Cécile McLorin Salvant on the singer's 2017 album Dreams and Daggers is nevertheless listenable to.
Out on Friday. 'On My Way to Nowhere' and 'Never Will I Marry' are among tracks streaming ahead of the full release. Marie Mørck photo: press
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