"Freddy Cole is one of American popular music’s great performers. Like pop icon Tony Bennett, the 80-year-young Cole is a beloved musician’s musician and a living link to the Great American Songbook. While evoking the suave stylings of Earl "Fatha" Hines and Teddy Wilson, Cole is very much his own man, whose toe-tapping forays recall the bluesy minimalism of Count Basie, the urbane sophistication of George Shearing and the uptown swagger of Duke Ellington." — Chuck Berg, Topeka Capital-Journal