SHUFFLE IT RIGHT (working title: Lazy River; 2008)

The songwriter Hoagy Carmichael recorded his own often witty lyrics in a low-key Southern drawl, a style he described as "Lazying". In Richard Alston's brand new Shuffle It Right, the songs Alston has chosen (Riverboat Shuffle, Georgia, Old Man Harlem and, of course, Star Dust) fairly scurry along with wry little licks and subtly punched out rhythm. It is toe-tapping, knee-jiggling music which gets the whole company moving.