TOM CULVER
Genres: Vocal Jazz, Pop, Art Song, Folk • United States

Equally at ease with pop, jazz, Latin and samba rhythms, Culver, orchestrated on record by a cast of world-class players, also displays his own lyrical savvy on two selections, the tango-inspired "What Became of Yesterday," and "All in the Stars," with the lines, " But Fate pulls the strings, we're at its command/Sifting us, it seems, like grains of sand." As a boy, Tom Culver was mesmerized by the flicking images on the silver screen as he sat transfixed in the darkness of the small-town South Dakota movie palaces. Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Donald O'Connor and Dan Daily glided across lacquered dance floors with their glamorous partners and the die was cast. "There was never anyone teaching voice or dance there," he recalls, "but I was in every choral group and high school play -- and the sound of applause was truly a high." The Navy offered a ticket from the snow read more...