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Just the most wonderful collection of great voices, great tunes and great songs, with the incomparable Jools swinging and rocking at the keyboards.

I could be boring and clever and go through track by track, but let me just say that I have bought (not copied or ripped off) two copies of this - one for home, and one permanently in the car.

Absolutely brilliant start to finish

Jools is the greatest bandleader since Ricky Ricardo

From Squeeze to today, who would have known. All of his albums with guests on every song are the bomb! This man is soooooo talented. Don't just buy this album, buy all of his albums. You will not be sorry.

It took me 8 years to find this gem of a CD, but only from researching for the best version of one old song contained here. There is a song called Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think), which was written way back in 1949 and first popularized by Guy Lombardo. Ska legend Prince Buster did his version of it in 1963, and sings it again on this CD with a full blown big band orchestra. After listening to that one sound clip and liking it, I checked the other sound clips and also liked them. Now that I have the CD, I am so glad that I found this mostly upbeat big band music of both old favorites and new songs written or co-written by Jools Holland. His name caught my ears at first because he is the former leader of Squeeze. For those that like the music of the Brian Setzer Orchestra, I can whole-heartedly recommend this one, as well as More Friends by Jools Holland (the one with the blue British car on the cover). One other thing, when a CD has a huge list of big name guests artists as this one does, that has usually been a red flag for me that the artist or the songs need some outside help. Not so in this case, since Jools picked all the right artists to make this music even better. Enjoy this one, music fans!!!

Jools Holland is a great composer he knows music has a lot of very talented friends and when he makes a Album like this it is value for money and a great listen.