Accordion À la mode

A real gem

     

I was in a music store several months ago and found a CD of Jo Stafford (with whom I was familiar) duetting with the Art Van Damme Quintet (with which I was not familiar until seeing that album and, unfortunately, passing on it). This work reveals an adept jazz accordionist and renews my hope that the Stafford collaboration finds its way to iTunes--or at least that I find it at the store next time. May Van Damme slip no farther down the chute of elevator music!