#4 Jazz Journalists Association's 'Best Of 2013' #18 Twin Cities Critics Tally 2013, Minneapolis StarTribune Twelve tracks, featuring the standards 'I'm All Smiles' and 'Why DId I Choose You?', originally written for the 1965 Broadway musical version of The Yearling, plus a handful of unpublished material that has never been recorded before, along with lesser-known gems from this gifted composer's song catalog. Pianist Tex Arnold has written new arrangements and is joined by vocalist Maud Hixson, cornetist Warren Vaché, bassist Steve LaSpina, and guitarist Gene Bertoncini. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Nola Recording Studios in New York City, February 4-8, 2013.
1) Don't Let a Good Thing Get Away
2) I'm All Smiles
3) Growing Up Is Learning to Say Goodbye
4) Old World Charm
5) The Time Has Come
6) The Kind of Man a Woman Needs
7) Just a Little Love Song
8) The Spider and the Fly
9) Where Do the Lonely Go?
10) Not Exactly Paris
11) Why Did I Choose You?
12) Childhood's End