(Gypsy, Vocal Jazz) Connie Evingson and the John Jorgenson Quintet - All the Cats Join In - 2014, MP3, 320

An eclectic collection of songs performed by one of the best hot club / gypsy jazz groups in the world.
Marking her tenth release on Minnehaha Music and third record in the hot club style of Django Reinhardt, vocalist Connie Evingson teams up with one of the leading groups in the hot club genre, the John Jorgenson Quintet. “I knew I wanted to work with this fabulous band when I first heard them at Djangofest orthwest,” says Evingson. “We performed together in Minneapolis a year later and had so much fun, we decided to make this record.”. The legendary Jon Hendricks, age 93, makes a guest appearance on the title track (“All the Cats Join In”), singing vocalese lyrics he penned to Lester Young’s “Tickle Toe” for Lambert, Hendricks and Ross’s classic album, Sing a Song of Basie (’57). The adventurous songlist includes offerings by Lennon & McCartney (“I’ll Follow the Sun”, “World Without Love”), French singer/songwriter Keren Ann (“Jardin D’hiver”) and film composer John Williams (“Moonlight”, recorded by Sting for the film Sabrina) in addition to popular standards (“Solitude”, “Dream a Little Dream of Me”, “Black Orpheus”, “You’re Driving Me Crazy”, etc.).