On Benny Latimore’s latest album, A Taste of Me: Great American Songs (Essential Media), the soul-blues veteran wraps his smoldering baritone around standards from the Great American Songbook (“Smile,”“The Very Thought of You”) as well as contemporary classics (“What a Difference a Day Makes,”“At Last,”“You Are So Beautiful”). He adds reworkings of his own “Dig a Little Deeper” and “Let’s Straighten It Out,” both of which prove themselves fully worthy of such august company.…
On Benny Latimore’s latest album, A Taste of Me: Great American Songs (Essential Media), the soul-blues veteran wraps his smoldering baritone around standards from the Great American Songbook (“Smile,”“The Very Thought of You”) as well as contemporary classics (“What a Difference a Day Makes,”“At Last,”“You Are So Beautiful”). He adds reworkings of his own “Dig a Little Deeper” and “Let’s Straighten It Out,” both of which prove themselves fully worthy of such august company.…