With To Keep You Warm Edwin Rutten invites us to his hugely swinging party. With his perfect way of singing and crooning, he puts a smile on your face, especially if you keep the image of his alter ego Uncle Willem in mind, wearing a hat behind a drum kit. By the way, he leaves that drumming to Frits Landesbergen, who also plays the vibraphone. In addition, he wrote all the arrangements, with room
… for a fine wind section in many songs, including saxophonist Simon Rigter and trombonist Martijn Sohier. The repertoire mainly includes well-known standards from the Great American Songbook. Here and there they are provided with a comical Dutch text, such as Dat Dere, which has been renamed Hé Pap and gives striking examples of the many who, what, where, why and how questions that young children can ask their parents. set. And A Foggy Day does not take place in London for a change, but in Amsterdam. A nice CD. (HB)more