‘It’s
A Lazy Afternoon’ as sung by Lucy Reed is quite something. Discreetly
accompanied by Dick Marx on piano and Johnny Frigo on bass doing the bare
minimum beautifully, her precise articulation, the exquisite enunciation, the unforced
projection, everything, it’s all so subtly sensual and seductive, the mood is incredibly
dreamy, so intimate, so tempting, so indolent. When Lucy suggests spending a
lazy afternoon with her, only a fool would hesitate.
She really
works wonders with John Latouche’s carefully chosen words, his very vivid
imagery, with those beetle bugs zooming, and the tulip trees blooming, the
farmer leaving his reaping, the speckled trout no longer leaping, the daisies
running riot amid the quiet. You really feel as though you are there, with Lucy
offering her hand, and with that look in her eye. There’s absolutely no need to
answer is there?
