Product Description

We all have a Walt Disney cartoon tune or melody in mind reminding us of magic afternoons spent with our parents when we were kids or with our own children now that we are grown-ups.

It is a bit of this special feeling and pleasure that artists such as Gregory Porter Melody Gardot Stacey Kent Jamie Cullum and other leading music stars share with us on the new project produced by Jay Newland and arranged and directed by Rob Mounsey as they perform big band jazz covers of songs that are part of every kids heritage.

Whether they come from Scandinavia Andalusia North Americas big cities or the Balkan plains 21st century kids have the Disney magic in common an imaginary world where both soft and wild tunes are closely linked to cult scenes from Uncle Walts animation classics.

Walt Disney loved jazz and paid great attention to the writing of the music accompanying his heroes adventures. Teams wrote and played the songs that at some point acted as catalysts of the emotions and personalities of unique characters such as Jiminy Cricket Baloo Tinker Bell or Toy Storys co