Singularly creative voice
Bon Vivant (life's too short for me | Yosemite, CA | 01/19/2008
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Jon Deak's work has great range within his auto-idiomatic style - and this CD is a good way to become familiar with his sound. The performances are all excellent, and in particular, the one-man show of Richard Hartshorne in 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' on contrabass and as all the spoken characters is very winning - and the contrast of the charmingly innocent (yet tongue-in-cheek) 'Eeyore Has A Birthday' with the sophisticated material of 'Lady Chatterly's Dream' demonstrates Deak's mastery of combining the spoken word with an always-accessible yet provocative personal compositional style."