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From the album "Mercerized! Songs of Johnny Mercer," ℗ Peter Cherches, 2016. Available on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play.

Featuring Lee Feldman on piano.

A tribute to lyricist Johnny Mercer with a twist. Singer/lyricist Peter Cherches performs Mercer's songs with his original vocalese and additional lyrics on a number of tunes. On "Too Marvelous for Words," Cherches has written words to a J.J. Johnson trombone solo. On other tunes he has penned what he refers to as "original vocalese," where Cherches writes both the words and the solo melody. And on "Autumn Leaves" he performs a new lyric based on Jacques Prevert's French original before launching into Mercer's version in a rendition inspired by the famous 1958 recording by Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderley. Most of Cherches' lyrics riff off of Mercer's, but in "Laura" he sings of his youthful crush on that film's lovely star, Gene Tierney.