This recording by alto/soprano saxophonist Nelson Rangell features
                        his unique take on the great  American standards.  With  bassist Jimmy
                        Haslip and keyboardist Russell Ferrante of the Yellowjackets and other
                        sideman, Rangell’s tart and tight sax tones and pithy flute solos take
                        straight-ahead jazz,  Broadway tunes,  folk ditties, and soul numbers,
                        and translates them for smooth jazz radio. On "Introduction to America
                        and..."  the wordless vocal and the  handclaps are  reminiscent of Pat
                        Metheny’s "First Circle."  Stevie Wonder’s Latin-tinged number, "Don’t
                        You Worry  ’Bout a Thing,"  retains its  Spanish  Harlem swing,  while
                        Earth, Wind and Fire’s "That the Way of the World,"  keeps its soulful
                        message.  Jazz pianist Hampton Hawes’s  "Sonora" may seem out of joint
                        here,  but Rangell’s  fans know it as the  "Whistle Tune,"  because he
                        whistled the melody  when he played in a noisy club.  Rangell has been
                        compared  to David Sanborn.  This  effort may  change that. ----Eugene
                        Holley, Jr.

                                        01 Introduction To America
                                        02 America
                                        03 Don’t You Worry Bout A Thing
                                        04 Cast Your Fate To The Wind
                                        05 Billy Boy
                                        06 Interlude
                                        07 That’s The Way Of The World
                                        08 Sonora
                                        09 Freda
                                        10 In The Wee Small Hours of The Morning
                                        11 Cherokee
                                        12 Don’t Forget Those Forgotten