Kenny Davern: Smiles jazz

Kenny Davern: Smiles jazzKenny Davern: Clarinet Howard Alden: Guitar Bucky Pizzarelli: Guitar Greg Cohen: Bass Tony DeNicola: Drums "This is music for living with, easy listening jazz (with none of the pejorative connotations of that phrase) from the Irish Jewish soul of a story telling reedman. If it doesn't put smiles on your face each time you play it, tatela, I'll be very surprised begorrah." Ira Gitler (Ira Gitler teaches Jazz History at the Manhattan School of Music.

without noticeable effort

In The Dark

Stardust  5:45

who consistently brings a fresh and original approach to every song she sings

and was really proud of those recordings and expressed a desire to work more with a small string ensemble

while all selections are period pieces

Bob Porter and Jack Sohmer

Gone With The Wind  5:32

"is sewn into jazz from the beginning of the art form

Rebecca Kilgore

—From the album notes by Jim Cullum

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