Again a case of a lot of well known names on this very amiable album of Austrian drummer Reinhardt Winkler's. While it's a very middle of the road mainstream outing modernists like saxophonist-flautist Wolfgang Puschnig chip in readily enough. Mainstreamer's mainstreamer Harry Allen provides gallons of creamy solos and sets the tone more in terms of idiom and is best going all Getzian on Claus Ogerman's 'Little Rio' at the beginning. Bass duties are filled by Boris Koslov while pianist John di Martino is gentle and persuasive on 'When It's Sleepy Time Down South' and there is a pleasant vocal contribution from Simone Kopmajer on her own co-written 'Good Advice' and on Randy Newman's 'It's So Hard Living Without You'. A Sunday morning lie-in sort of a record. If it has a fault it's just too easy going.
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