After the unexpected success of The Sound , now reintroducing himself to the public, at the fine age of seventy-six, with an excellent new recording.

The disk opens with a gentle, respectful reworking of the old Mexican love song 'Besame Mucho,'. Gennari, who played the song hundreds of times as a faceless member of dance bands, miraculously manages to transcend its schlocky origins. He follows it with Isham Jones' lyrical 1936 standard, 'There is No Greater Love,' but just as the mould seems set for the proverbial and predictable trip down memory lane, Gennari breaks things up by inserting Horace Silver's 'Lonely Woman.' 'On the Sunny Side of the Street,' a song indelibly associated with Johnny Hodges, is given a somewhat edgier, less rhapsodic treatment than Rabbit ever chose and is adorned—if that is the right word—with a playful ending. It's followed by an up-tempo version of Cole Porter's 'What Is This Thing Called Love?' before a return to Europe for the haunting theme from Marcel Camus' 1959 'new wave' movie, Black Orpheus. The set closes with Moanin', Blue Moon, My Favorite Things and three originals.

Track Listing

• Besame Mucho
• There Is No Greater Love
• Lonely Woman
• On The Sunny Side Of The Street
• What Is This Thing Called Love
• Time After Time
• Black Orpheus
• Moanin’
• Blue Moon
• My Favourite Things
• E La Pioggia Continua A Cadere
• Lorenzo
• Romolina

Additional Details

Label: Red Records

Genre: Jazz

Run Time: 73 mins

Release Date: 08/18/12

UPC: 027312331721