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Gentleman offers a set of wry yet hopeful songs about love, loss and elegant masculinity. What does it mean to be a gentleman in this day and age? Vocalist, songwriter and saxophonist Curtis Stigers found himself confronting that question from a variety of angles as he was preparing for his latest album. On a personal level, he was watching his daughter leave home for college, beginning a new chapter in the era of #MeToo and #TimesUp. Back at home, Stigers was reinventing his own life with a new romance and marriage. On a grander scale, Stigers found himself, like so many others, enraged by the lack of role models in public life. From the divisive and openly corrupt dealings of politicians to the exposed underbelly of the entertainment industry, it became increasingly difficult to find an example of manhood worth looking up to. Stigers’ new album, Gentleman, thus offers a wry yet elegant reassessment of the modern male. The album arrives with a spring bouquet of heartfelt songs that offer a unique view of love and loss from the perspective of a hopeless romantic who’s been through the gamut of emotion and lived to tell the tale. At times sardonic, not immune to drowning his sorrows in one (or two) too many, Stigers nonetheless remains a true gentleman, even when he comes bearing more thorns than roses.