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The companion CD to our live show, Too Hot for Words pays tribute to the Great Ladies of Swing, women who embodied the swing & jazz style of singing popularized in the 1930s and 1940s. Singers like Ella Fitzgerald, Ethel Waters, Billie Holiday, Lee Wiley, and Mildred Bailey, whose unforgettable recordings of favorites such as "A-Tisket, A-Tasket," "Dinah," "You Go to My Head," "Looking at You" and "Concentratin' on You" (among others!!) were simply marvelous. Rather than try to recreate the originals, we used a great hot band and group vocals to give the songs a more contemporary flavor, while holding true to the classic jazz tradition. And our audiences were delighted! Actually, it was the Too Hot for Words show that led us to a Jazz Cruise gig (to the Caribbean, what a blast!) and then the tour of Germany that produced With Thee I Swing, a wonderful live CD recorded in Hamburg for the Nagel-Heyer Label. It was an exciting time: my first Jazz Cruise, and my first European tour, in the fall of 1997. It took us almost two more years to complete and release the CD of Too Hot for Words, in the summer of 1999. It turned out to be an appropriate title! "The way Terry Blaine and Mark Shane go about presenting this tribute is as fascinating as the tribute itself... that these two are musical soulmates is very evident." — Dave Nathan, Jazz News Terry Blaine, Vocals Mark Shane, Piano Russell George, Bass Ed Metz Jr., Drums Tom Desisto, Guitar Ed Polcer, Cornet Allan Vaché, Clarinet Harry Allen, Tenor Sax Joel Helleny, Trombone Tom Artin, Trombone Produced by Tom Desisto Executive Producer: Cynthia Becker Music Arranged by Mark Shane Vocal Arrangements by Mark Shane, Terry Blaine & Tom Desisto Recorded and mixed at The Edison, NYC Engineer: Gary Chester Assistant Engineers: Yvonne Yedibalian, Jim Murray Additional Recording & Digital Editing at Two Pie Are Music, Woodstock, NY Engineer: Tom Desisto Mastered at ARF! Digital, NYC Engineer: Alan Silverman Photography: Dion Ogust Art Direction: Charles Sands Jukebox Jazz Logo: Lisa Maxwell Hair: Lisa Mayone Liner Notes: Terry Blaine