Jazz Articles about Ben Black

Ben Black: Remembered Faces/Private Places

by Dave Nathan
November 1, 2001

Seattle-based cabaret singer Ben Black's second album deals with a set of tunes, most unfamiliar, that deliver a set of messages about being kinder to each other both as individuals and to society as a whole. The play list has an international flavor with songs from Armenia, Ireland, Japan and Latin America as well as the U. S. Black has a high pitched, but never shrill, tenor which on such songs as the medley of “Old Friend"/"Old Friends" comes close ...