Vocalist Andrew Suvalsky delivers a catchy scat shuffling reminiscent of Count Basie with the smooth sheen of Nat King Cole on his second offering, A World That Swings from LML Music. The album is a mix of standards from American Songbook composers like Cole Porter’s “Night And Day” and Irving Berlin’s “How Deep Is The Ocean?” with a topping of bossa nova tunes like Juan Tizol’s “Perdido” and Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “One Note Samba” augmented by side dishes of classic pop tracks like Carole King’s “I Feel The Earth Move” and John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s collaboration “Fool On The Hill.” The songs arrangements are effective in drawing out the power of swing-jazz, grabbing audiences by the shirt collar and with Suvalsky’s vocals in the mix, they become gems that hold audiences captive.

Suvalsky modernizes swing-jazz favorites like Oscar Hammerstein’s “Lover, Come Back To Me” and “Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise” for contemporary generations to connect with, and experience the flickering beats and romantic jaunts that previous generations once enjoyed. Suvalsky embraces these songs as if they were his own, stoking their glistening embers and caressing their tendrils. He becomes so involved in the vocal melodies that he takes the lead through the dance steps without apprehension, like in the energetic leaps he makes across “Night And Day” reinventing this Cole Porter tune with festive scat shimmies and perky lifts. Suvalsky makes life seem so eventful in his delivery, brandishing a chic-style jazz in Carole King’s “I Feel The Earth Move” with a stream of sultry curves and in Lennon/McCartney’s song “Fool On The Hill” with emotive vocal dips that recall of Nat King Cole. When he sings, “Daddy, can I have that big elephant over there” from Bobby Timmons and Oscar Brown’s tune “Dat Dere,” he does it with such sophistication that the slang phrase resonates with a universal meaning.

Suvalsky’s covers of jazz standards and classic pop tunes on A World That Swings pays homage to these iconic composers while enabling Suvalsky to wrap himself in these vintage sheets. A World That Swings follows his debut album, Vintage Pop And The Jazz Sides (2006) and further entrenches Suvalsky in the fires of jazz music’s hearth.