Her musicians, as always are among the best in New York, starting with musical director and pianist Tedd Firth who has emerged as a prodigious new star in current jazz circles. The trio continues with perennial jazz all-star Jay Leonhart on bass and Joe Cocuzzo on drums.
The gifted young reed player, Scott Kreitzer contributes tenor sax solos on three of the cuts. The title song, by Sammy Fain and E.Y. Harburg is one of the lesser-known songs of World War II, but Jane felt it was particularly appropriate in today’s uncertain world, and as a theme for the album, which author, as critic and Will Friedwald observes in his liner notes, “is ground zero for bright tomorrows, and its songs form a veritable axis of optimism, cockeyed or otherwise.”