review by Joe Viglione Even more elegantly packaged than the previous disc, with an eight-page cardboard foldout holding a gorgeous Rico Solinas cover painting, Whispering Grass by the Swing Session helps solidify this group's position as one of the early 2000s' most authentic purveyors of this musical style called swing. Bill Milkowski's annotated history of Jive, the book Swing It, and dance hops sprouting up with twenty-somethings discovering music their great-grandparents once enjoyed are evidence that the sounds on this CD have swung back into vogue. Little David Rose, not to confuse him with David Rose, the author of The Stripper, gives listeners two pages of essays inside this package, which comes with an additional glossy page containing the play list, times, and songwriters. There's a plethora of information about the creation and development of all 16 tracks worth reading. The project also has exquisite black-and-white photos which look like they were taken during the filming of L.A. Confidential. Peter Pops Walsh is in great voice, as his five bandmates and two guest rhythm guitarists give him a platform to express himself and bring these songs to life. Scott Lawrence's piano sounds wonderfully muffled in Jumpin' in the Mornin', but it gets to dance in your ears as it trades with the horns on the instrumental Dear Old Southland. Jewel Records splashes every cut a gem on the play list, and that's no hype; the two-and-a-half- to four-minute tunes are smooth and producer\u002Fdrummer Bowen Brown gets high marks for keeping it all so genuine. The band takes the arrangements of Erskine Hawkins and the Ink Spots to create one of their own for the title track, Whispering Grass, adding to that tune's legacy and hopefully helping it find a new audience. Walsh takes Wynonie Harris' I Feel That Old Age Coming On and works with trumpet player Tim Hyland to give that song the respect it deserves, a reverence the Swing Session give to every song they put to tape. They do it so well that the album Whispering Grass has the potential to introduce these sounds to people who otherwise wouldn't know where to find this great music. Flunky concludes the party with