Adele Nicols, 'Never Let Me Go'

Shimmering jazz vocals, intimate and irresistible...Nicols' debut album is compelling and full of emotion, with some of the greatest composers in jazz, including Clifford Brown, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Johnny Mercer and Jerome Kern. It includes an exceptionally talented group of musicians, showcasing the piano chops of San Francisco's Al Plank and Vermont's Bruce Sklar, Sacramento's guitarist, Steve Homan and drummer Jimmy Robinson, acoustic bassists Scott Steed from Portland, Oregon and Clyde Stats out of Vermont. "Never Let Me Go" is full of promise and surprise, as is Nicols. She has produced a must buy album. It saturates the senses and clearly satisfies the soul. Swinging, delicate, always engaging.