Woonsocket native scores with new album

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Jazz musician Daryl Sherman’s new album, “My Blue Heaven” received a thumbs-up review by Matthias Kirsch on the website ginalovesjazz.com on April 12. Sherman, a Woonsocket native and former member of Congregation B’nai Israel, in Woonsocket, is best-known for her longtime gig at the Waldorf Astoria, in New York City, but in recent years has often played at the Tableaux Lounge in Tokyo. 

The title track on the album, which was released by the Japanese label Muzak, Inc., features lyrics in Japanese. 

Of other cuts on the 12-song album, Kirsch writes, “The pure joy in the arrangement for “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” is one of the highlights, and Sherman’s  “cute and very coherent arrangement” of “Feel Like Makin’ Love” is “simply beautiful.” 

Kirsch also lauds Sherman’s “smoky diction” and chops on the piano.]