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Title: So relaxed....
Review: Hoagy Carmichael wrote songs we're all familiar with, but it's rare to hear him sing them. He's not the singer Sinatra was, but he has a marvelous relaxed style all his own. The band backing him on this CD is made up of some of the very best West Coast jazz musicians of the 50s. Art Pepper, on alto sax, puts in one of his finest performances here. As I said, a lot of these tunes are familiar to the point of being cliches, but these renditions have an authenticity that keeps them from ever being boring, and when a lesser known gem like Winter Moon comes up it's a revelation.
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