Pizzarelli is a poster-boy for the new mainstream, a personable vocalist and guitarist who flits easily between the parallel worlds of cabaret and swing. He must sell well for both Telarc and Arbors, if you judge success by the steady run of his new releases that appear in their lists. This time he's working on an all-Ellington programme featuring his quartet (Fuller, brother Martin and Tedesco) or the Swing Seven (good arrangements by Don Sebesky) with sundry guests (father Bucky, wife Jessica, Elling, Allen & Weinstein). I still find his vocal style less than compelling, Harry Connick via Chet Baker you might say, while happy to admit that his jazz feeling is all it should be. Fuller is quite excellent, surging into a solo on ‘C-Jam Blues’ that presages some serpentine tenor from Allen, the whole thing swinging like the proverbial, before Mosca enters, ribald and vigorous, and JP vocalizes a harmonised line with his fast-moving guitar, the gang riffing hard as Fusco's agitated alto takes over and Weinstein wheezes in. Bucky solos ably, as he always does, on ‘Satin Doll’ and adds the ideal second voice behind his son's vocal on ‘Solitude’. There's plenty of momentum on ‘I'm Beginning’ and the three singers do an LHR routine on ‘Perdido’, Elling clearly out-punching his lighter-weight leader. Good fun through and through.