Track Listing

1. How Could A Man Take Such A Fall
2. It's So Hard Living Without You
3. Days Of Wine And Roses
4. Hometown Blues
5. My Foolish Heart
6. You're Driving Me Crazy
7. Secret Heart
8. Down With Love
9. Swingin' Down At 10th & Main
10. Sweet Kentucky Ham
11. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
12. Body And Soul

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55378 in Music
• Released on: 2006-03-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 56 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Curtis Stigers is best known for his mainstream rock work of the mid 1990s, but there were hints of jazz even then. In Secret Heart, his second jazz album, he again demonstrates considerable authenticity as a jazz singer and saxophonist.

These aren't all jazz standards though. Just as Baby Plays Around, his previous Concord Jazz release, included jazz covers of modern pop songs, so on Secret Heart Randy Newman, Ron Sexsmith and Steve Earle rub shoulders with Cole Porter, Harold Arlen and Henry Mancini. In addition, his own writing is solidly represented by the bluesy "How Could a Man Take Such a Fall" and the laid-back shuffle of "Swingin' Down At 10th & Main". His occasional tenor saxophone playing is perfectly accomplished and in no way embarrassed by the presence of such top drawer jazz instrumentalists as Larry Goldings, John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton. --Alfred Nowaks

Customer Reviews

Not What I Expected!
Having only got Curtis Stigers first two albums I was expecting a blend of American soft rock and a slight blues feel but this album is blues and jazz through and through.
Curtis Stigers shows a strength and style to his voice that soft rock songs do not fully show off and he does credit to some familiar tunes as well as a few new ones.
If you like Stigers doing the mellow tunes of the first two albums then I would suggest that you give this album a try. You might be surprised as I was.

Great CD - well worth buying !!!!!
The second Jazz release by Curtis also features two songs he has written which stand up well on this great CD. There are tracks that I prefer more than others but none of them would fall in to the "skip" category !

That Man Sure Can Sing!
A classic album, with that voice of depth and soul, not forgetting that wonderful Sax!