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Review title: After all, jazz is the CREATIVE popular music...
Product review: ...not the trendy or the traditional. Especially with Blanchard and Jane Monheit's rendering of "I Can't Give You Anything But Love". It may be respectful to follow the obvious template when doing another composer's music (as witness Brian Setzer's dead-on treatment of Prima's "Jump Jive an' Wail") but not when you're doing a whole album of that same composer. So Blanchard and Monheit make it impossible to listen to that old McHugh standard with half an ear when they switch it from quasi-Dixieland swing to a groove-oriented piece a la Brubeck, Zawinul or (even though we know him more by his voice) Connick Jr. The instrument that defines this pattern, of course, is the piano, but that's nothing new--Blanchard has always been great at writing and arranging for instruments not his own. This number reminds us that funk didn't get its start with electronics.
