Sorry, but this album is not the music of Harold Arlen nor the HR Big Band justice. The song moves in about three colors and works neither with the coolness of a Sinatra nor the emotion of Ray Charles by the well-known and ansich just brilliant songs. The or the arrangers would probably get in the Arrangierklassen German Jazz colleges for their work a smooth "one", but also they work strictly according to instructions from the pieces. The arrangements are not particularly creative nor particularly clever and paste the songs to some.
I wonder; who only need this CD, I'll give my at the earliest opportunity to someone, but the recipient should not be a jazz fan;)
