Jazz players like those on this album had, in the Fifties and early Sixties, been nourished on swing and bop and were enjoying relatively good gigs in clubs and studios, and were still feeling like their form was new and open to exciting exploration. When not airing their own soon-to-be classic original compositions, they were leafing back a couple of decades to an earlier creative era. That was the time between the Wars, when Cole Porter, basking in the well-financed attentions of Broadway and Hollywood, had managed to live in the posh style to which he'd been born while pouring out what's perhaps the richest, most effervescent combination of music and lyrics to ever gush from one mind. His output, which continued after the Second World War, helped to illuminate the world's recovery from the Depression and to substitute an image of a stimulating lifestyle blessed with romance and adventure.
–from the liner notes by Jeff Kaliss