After a 40 year career as a composer and arranger in film and TV (including over 500 national TV commercials), Phil Kelly has "returned to his musical roots as a hobby," and recorded his first big band jazz album. Featuring the very best studio and jazz players in the Pacific Northwest plus several old friends from L.A., New York and Nashville (including Pete Christlieb, Andy Martin, Pat Coil, and Gary Smulyan), this album will be of great interest to fans of modern mainstream big band jazz. From Basie and Herman to Tower of Power and the Metropole Orchestra, this CD displays Kelly's deep love and knowledge of the music and offers a fresh new platform for the big band idiom.