Frank D’Rone might be the finest jazz singer and balladeer most listeners have never heard of. At least outside of Chicago, where he was a connoisseur’s favorite and a regular on the nightclub and saloon scene for decades until his death in 2013 at 81.
Here is a singer (and guitarist) inhabiting his own creative space between Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. D’Rone delivers the Great American Songbook with the individuality of a musician confident in what he wants to say and how he wants to say it. A premier storyteller, he’s jazzier than Sinatra and Tony Bennett, hipper than Mel Tormé,
