One of modern jazz's great vocalists, the unparalleled Phil Perry returns with his latest set, A Mighty Love. Possessed with one of music's most admired tenor voices, Perry effortlessly slides over such classic soul standards as Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes' "If You Don't Know Me By Now," and newer power ballads like Toni Braxton's "Unbreak My Heart." Both nuanced and bombastic, Perry shows that a true vocalist knows how to take classic material, reinterpret it, and make it new again. -dusty culpepper

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