Outside of Josh Groban, I don't care for male singers, but Ken Slavin has changed my mind. I love jazz and his voice is perfect for this genre. His pitch is perfect commingled with a smoky honey tone. All the songs are wonderfully rendered, the standouts are the title cut, Alone and I Can't Reach Your Heart.

He reached this cynic's.
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Slavin is bringing sexy back to this Oscar Hammerstein/Ben Oakland composition, assuming Frank Sinatra is your personal Cialis.  If the audio weren't so pristine, you'd never guess Slavin's take on the title song from the 1937 film (a semi-obscure vehicle for opera star Grace Moore) was recorded 70 freaking years after the fact.  Backed by violinists from the San Antonio Symphony, Slavin doesn't so much take crooning into the 21st century as skillfully recall the vibe of a time when simple lover's sentiments expressed in a syrup-thick baritone meant more than an excuse for an old-man boner joke.  (Song added to The Current's streaming local music playlist, Mixx Tape, July 2009.)
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I loved this album and can only hope he will do more of the same. There is never enough of this type of music,
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With his mellow baritone, on "I'll Take Romance" he finds the heart of classic show tunes and jazz standards like Cole Porter's "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" or Duke Ellington and Bob Russell's "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me."

It's singing that earned him "Best Vocalist of 2007" by the readers of the San Antonio Current and given him the confidence to look farther.

With his fourth CD, Slavin thinks he has the chops to follow his dream. He's been shopping his CD all over the world, with orders coming from France, Portugal and Italy. He's gotten positive responses from jazz clubs and cabarets in New York. He said he hopes to take a year off from his public relations business to focus on his music career.
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