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Sonny and Perley: Let It Happen

by Tom Pierce
A major test of any new recording is whether it avoids a been there, done that" sound. Sonny and Perley's third release, Let It Happen, consistently escapes this trap, with three numbers ("Estate," Scarborough Fair" and Hymne l'Amour") particularly illustrating this fact.
This husband-wife team has long been both impressive and popular as performers of Brazilian favorites, jazz classics and Great American Songbook standards in the upstate New York and New England area. They brightly meld lyricism, passion, and rhythm ...
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