Roch Lockyer: When Frank Met Django

The title of this album due to guitarist/vocalist Roch Lockyer taking a handful of songs associated with Frank Sinatra and putting them in a Django Reinhardt mood. A couple of tunes are instrumentals, the cozy “Musings/Improve #1” and the droplet filed “Improv #3,” but other than that, he uses his Kenny Rankin voice to team up with either Ben Powell/vi or Rob Hardt/cl to create gypsy mooded takes of “When Day is Done” and a relaxed “Summer Wind.” He likes to include intro to the pieces, with Powell leading the way to “I Thought About You” or picking in an easy style on “It Had to Be You.” Unpretentious and relaxed.

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