Jerri Adams

Standards, show tunes and pre-rock ballads are the repertoire of vocalist Jerri Adams. She recorded infrequently, and there's little information available regarding her best-known release, It's Cool Inside (Columbia), apart from its song list of familiar chestnuts like "Love for Sale" and "Imagination." Her strengths include lyric interpretation and timing; she is part of the "torch" and pre-rock pop generation who were influenced but not defined by swing and jazz inflections and nuances. ~ Ron Wynn