Jackie Coon and his Pals: Softly

Jackie Coon: leader and fluegelhorn, vocal
Johnny Varro: piano
Bob Haggart: bass
Ed Metz Jr.: drums
With special guests: Rick Fay: tenor sax, Dan Barrett: trombone, John Allred: trombone

Jackie Coon's relaxed, lyrical jazz is again front and center in a swinging program of jazz classics. "Jackie Coon is a master of the fluegelhorn. The seemingly effortless, fast-flowing and beautifully lyrical inventions Jackie evokes from his fluegelhorn border on the miraculous. In Jackie's hands, the music—the melody or the variations on it—is astonishingly lovely. He and his pals have created a quite special jazz sound, gentle, light on its feet, creative, exciting and wonderfully satisfying."

—From the album notes of Charles Champlin, retired arts editor and columnist of the Los Angeles Times, and a noted jazz critic and writer.

Selections:
You Took Advantage of Me
The Blue Room
Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise
Four or Five Times
Man With a Horn
Avalon
The Touch of Your Lips
Tangerine
Look For the Silver Lining
If I Had You
Autumn Leaves
(I Would Do) Anything for You