TBGB Pick of the Week: October 12, 2009

“Optimistic”
Melba Moore and Phil Perry
From the Shanachie CD The Gift of Love 2009
www.shanachie.com

“Optimistic” is the first single from, and also the first of several inspirational tracks on, Melba Moore and Phil Perry’s CD The Gift of Love. It’s a smooth but lively jazz track – easy as Sunday morning – that oozes with positive vibes and statements repeated like mantras by the background vocalists (“You can win as long as you keep your head to the sky.”)

Moore and Perry are a new pair-up but you’d never know it, as they go together like bacon and eggs in both harmony and antiphony. A light piano darts in and out of the arrangement, which uses a thumping bass to support the soft melody. The whole feel hearkens back to the early duets of BeBe and CeCe Winans.

Hear “Optimistic” by clicking on this link: “Optimistic”.