It's a Small Town is a refreshingly contemporary treatment of mostly standards along with a handful of new songs that can stand most proudly alongside the older and more venerated songs.

Although romantic love is the theme of most of these songs, it's Stacy's sense of yearning in her voice, that vulnerability and longing that line her vocals that touches and moves the listener.
 

Vocalist Andrew Suvalsky delivers a catchy scat shuffling reminiscent of Count Basie with the smooth sheen of Nat King Cole on his second offering, A World That Swings from LML Music. The album is a mix of standards from American Songbook composers like Cole Porter’s “Night And Day” and Irving Berlin’s “How Deep Is The Ocean?” with a topping of bossa nova tunes like Juan Tizol’s “Perdido” and Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “One Note Samba” augmented by side dishes of classic pop tracks like Carole King’s “I Feel The Earth Move” and John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s collaboration “Fool On The Hill....

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Suvalsky's vocals caress the follicles of the tympanic membrane with the buffed shimmies of Ella Fitzgerald, the crisp indentations of Mel Torme, and the debonair flare of Dean Martin. His re-inventions show the classy sophistication of old-fashioned swing and the promise of attaining iconic status....

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