Cool for Kids // Annie Ross

JUN105
Release date: January, 2001

Featuring: Mike Kanan, Doug White, Neal Miner and Joe Strasser

Excerpt from liner notes:
On the subject of what's cool for kids and cool kids, few would argue that Annie Ross was one of the originals. This notion has been well supported through the years by the at least partially autobiographical content of the story told in her famous lyric set to the tune of Wardell Gray's "Twisted." For what may be more visceral evidence one should consult her "swinging Scots" routine in one of the later "Our Gang" comedies or perhaps her short but tuneful turn in "Presenting Lily Mars" starring Judy Garland. It also helps to accrue points in one's "hip account" to have been the toast of the London and Paris theater and music scene when still in their early twenties. I think she is one of the few people who can boast of being met at Newark Airport for her first trip to New York by a welcoming party that included Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. Though she is every bit the worldly adult whose singing speaks to "grown ups" wherever she appears, she will always retain elements of that cool kid who was a "wizard at three" both on and off stage.

Doug White