With the growing popularity of 's first vocal album, , producer wanted to capitalize on both facets of his young star's abilities. Hence, the trumpeter turned vocalist entered the studio in 1955 with both his quartet featuring pianist and an expanded sextet including bassist on flute, and various string players. The resulting album, , helped set in stone the image of as the world's matinee idol and icon of '50s West Coast . His laid-back style -- a mix of '30s crooner and ' nonet recordings -- appealed in its immediacy to a public tiring of the hyper, athletic musicality of . Similarly, his plaintive, warm trumpet sound was the more sensitive antidote to such brassy kings as and . Others artists had performed many of these before, but as with on , tracks like became definitively associated with for the rest of his career. are not only the two most important albums of 's career, but are classics of . [The 2004 reissue of includes an EP version of not included on the original album.] ~ Matt Collar