If you love the Andrew Sisters, the McQuire Sisters, the Boswell Sisters....these groups are celebrated with great artistry on this CD by the String of Pearls. "String of Pearls has produced a version of vocalese that is, to me, breathtaking in its beauty, startling in its simplicity and overpowering in its swing, without which, as friend Edward Ellington says, It Don't Mean A Thing ....Jon Hendricks"
TRACKS:
1. It's Sand, Man
2. Forty Second Street
3. Girl Talk
4. Professor Bop
5. It Don't Mean A Thing
6. One Note Samba
7. Nice Work If You Can Get It
8. Straighten Up & Fly Right
9. I Hear Music
10. A String Of Pearls
11. Crazy People
12. Smack Dab In The Middle
13. Teach Me Tonight
14. South American Way
15. Sermonette
16. Glow Worm
17. Sentimental Gentleman From Georgia
MUSICIANS:
Ken Hitchcock - saxophones, flute, clarinet
Bill Moring - bass
Darryl Pellegrini - drums
Tony Regusis - piano
Randy Sandke - trumpet (courtesy Concord Records)