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In Times Like These - Jane ScheckterGETTING TO KNOW YOU
THE RULES OF THE ROAD
NOBODY ELSE BUT ME
IN TIMES LIKE THESE
THERE'LL BE ANOTHER SPRING
DON'T LET A GOOD THING GET AWAY
HEART'S DESIRE
YOU MAKE ME LAUGH
FROM THIS MOMENT ON
YOU KEEP COMING BACK LIKE A SONG
THE UNDERDOG / SURE THING
I'M WAY AHEAD OF THE GAME
PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS
ALL MY TOMORROWS
AFTER ALL / YEAR AFTER YEAR
WITH SO LITTLE TO BE SURE OF

In Times Like These

   Her musicians, as always are among the best in New York, starting with musical director and pianist Tedd Firth who has emerged as a prodigious new star in current jazz circles. The trio continues with perennial jazz all-star Jay Leonhart on bass and Joe Cocuzzo on drums. 
   The gifted young reed player, Scott Kreitzer contributes tenor sax solos on three of the cuts. The title song, by Sammy Fain and E.Y. Harburg is one of the lesser-known songs of World War II, but Jane felt it was particularly appropriate in today's uncertain world, and as a theme for the album, which author, as critic and Will Friedwald observes in his liner notes, "is ground zero for bright tomorrows, and its songs form a veritable axis of optimism, cockeyed or otherwise".