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Trudy Kerr

Sings Jazz for Juniors

Jazzizit JFJ 2001

You can't introduce youthful ears to jazz too early, is the message of this fun album, which takes eighteen songs calculated to appeal to children and gives them lively, accessible jazz treatments, sung by Trudy Kerr backed by pianist Tom Cawley, bassist Geoff Gascoyne and drummer Sebastiaan de Krom, plus trumpeter Martin Shaw and saxophonist Derek Nash.

Kerr's note concerning 'tunes I grew up with' explains the selection process that has produced an album containing not only novelty-type songs ('Swinging on a Star', 'The Doodlin' Song', 'Zip a Dee Do Dar') but also compulsively singable material with spaces for children's interjections or catchy choruses on which they can join in (Louis Prima's 'Sing Sing Sing', 'Boom Bang a Bang', 'These Boots are Made for Walkin'', 'Straighten Up and Fly Right'). And join in the Gascoyne/Kerr children (Emily, Laura and Ruby) and Laura and Kristy James do, rendering the album immediately welcoming to young ears, and giving parents, as Kerr hopes it will, the option 'to sing songs other than nursery rhymes to [Œ] kids'.

Pity it wasn't released in the late 1980s/early 1990s; I could have avoided a debilitating allergy to 'The Wheels on the Bus' and 'Postman Pat'.