Swizzle: Smooth Tunes on the Rocks (2002)

About this title: Swizzle features 15 vocal pop favorites, performed by Canadian vocalist Tony Paglia. Piano figures heavily into the standard combo instrumentation, although horns also appear quite frequently. Paglia has a pleasant, slightly casual style that's suited well to the loungey feel of this set -- classics like "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You," "All the Way," and "Fly Me to the Moon" go down as smooth as the whiskey on the cover. Swizzle shows some flair for adventure, too, with a flashy double-time arrangement of "Fever" and a big, bold, and swingin' closing version of "One for My Baby (And ... read more

Tracks:

1. Steppin' Out With My Baby [Berlin]
2. Ain't That a Kick in the Head [Cahn/VanHeusen]
3. All the Way [Cahn/VanHeusen]
4. Old Devil Moon [Harburg/Lane]
5. Beyond the Sea [Lawrence/Trenet]
6. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You [Cavanaugh/Morgan/St]
7. Catch a Falling Star [Pockriss/Vance]
8. Strangers in the Night [Kaempfert/Singleton]
9. Fever [Davenport/Cooley]
10. Mack the Knife [Blitzstein/Brecht]
11. Almost Like Being in Love [Lerner/Loewe]
12. The Best Is Yet to Come [Coleman/Leigh]
13. Stranger in Paradise [Borodin/Forrest/Wri]
14. Fly Me to the Moon [Howard]
15. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) [Arlen/Mercer]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.