by Scott YanowFor this interesting but not essential CD reissue, pianist Hampton Hawes, along with bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Donald Bailey, tries his best to uplift then-current songs (plus his original Rhonda) including Fly Me to the Moon, What Kind of Fool Am I, Chim Chim Cheree, and even People. In general, the treatments are somewhat straight-ahead (The Girl from Ipanema is taken as swing rather than bossa nova), and Hawes' solos transform some of the tunes a bit.