This CD contains music recorded for the Lang-Worth Transcriptions by the
John Kirby Sextet plus singer
Maxine Sullivan. Actually
Sullivan is only on five of the 18 songs, singing in her typically light and straightforward manner. The other selections feature the unique sextet (trumpeter
Charlie Shavers, clarinetist
Buster Bailey, altoist Russell Procope, pianist
Billy Kyle, bassist
John Kirby and drummer O'Neil Spencer) performing a program heavy on adaptations of classical themes and novel melodies.
Shavers in particular comes across well and the set should please
Kirby's fans. ~ Scott Yanow