Benevento Sings Bacharach

From the 1950s on, no modern “pop” songwriter had more hits making their way into the jazz idiom than Burt Bacharach, via recordings by such renowned artists as Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, and others. In tribute, vocalist Marietta Benevento serves up this singular composer’s sophisticated harmonies and rhythms with, as she describes, “a song set cooked to order for jazz audience ears, all performed in company with a quartet of superb Albuquerque players,” including Robert Lah, piano; Rodney Bowe, bass; Douglas Cardwell, drums; and Paul Gonzales, trumpet.