Brett Dean

Tatum Langley: Tatum's Swingin' Session

by Jack Bowers
October 22, 2025

Change the face (and figure) on the cover of Tatum's Swingin' Session!!!, the Chicago-based Shout Section Big Band's fifth recording, and what is left is an almost exact replica of an album cover released by Capitol Records in 1961, depicting a swingin' session led by another rather well-known interpreter of popular song surnamed Sinatra...down to and including the three exclamation marks. It would be good to note that the resemblance endures on the album itself, but there ...