The man has "everything on it": swings and phrasing much more "jazzy" and also to more modern way than Bublé, Peter Cincotti, Philip White or Tom Dice.
It seems Cicero has the best jazz singer (Jon Hendricks, Dave Lambert, Johnny Hartmann, Oscar Brown, Mark Murphy, even the young Jamie Cullum), heard a lot u. Studied. He surpassed for my taste even the most established German jazz singer Peter Fessler.
Roger Cicero fascinates with its great musicality, his temperament and above all with its extensive u. Versatile voice. He has amazing, velvety depths and can also go effortless, powerful in the air and singing continued. Since there are superfast title gushing out the full dynamics: One hears just how much joy prepares him singing.
The song selection of the CD is very interesting because it is different from the currently so popular "American Songbook".
Even the names of the composers speak for:
Not Porter, Gershwin, Kern u. Berlin, but we hear, among other things rather something "gesangsstörrische" compositions by Clifford Brown, Abdullah Ibrahim, Herbie Hancock, Lionel Hampton and Kurt Elling. Even at that time already hackneyed piece Beatle '"I Wanna Hold Your Hand' 'is a challenging Ballade in his new editor.
As the 35 year old Cicero these songs mastered musical + technically I find sensational, also because it sounds as if he were twenty years here with all Verve! He is also accompanied by brilliant musicians, which also plenty of room for the Solis is left.
Roger Cicero is the surprise of the year for me. A live concert at Radio sent me then even more convinced that Germany had at no time a better singer!
