Does the front cover look familiar? You're damn right it does! Does the title, Swingin' Session !!! sound familiar? Check, you've got it - a playful take on Sinatra's 1961 Reprise album of the same name and, like the original, it's a ring-a-ding-dinger!
Tatum has the ability to sell a song like few of her contemporaries can. Perfect pitching, jazzy phrasing, an amazing range and the ability to do what it is says on the tin - swing! It comes as no surprise to find out that she has done tours of duty with PMJ.
The twenty piece Shout Section Big Band (confusingly abbreviated to SSBB*) dish out punchy solos (soloists in red), leaping out from well-crafted arrangements by such legends as Frank Foster, Frank DeVol, Jon Harpin, Shorty Rogers, Neal Hefti and Buddy Bregman plus, from within, Jon Dorhauer, all contributing to the overhaul picture.
To say Tatum can sing and swing is like saying Ella could hold a tune. Highly Recommended (the capital R is intentional). Lance
Deedle's Blues; Ridin' High; That's my Style; All the Cats Join in; You Came a Long Way From St. Louis; Swingiin' on Nothing; Sing; Smooth Sailing; Aitchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe; I Hadn't Anyone 'Til You; A Hard Day's Night; Pass Me By; The Song is Ended; You're the Top
*The north east's Strictly Smokin' Big Band also collapse to SSBB.
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