Halloween Jazz

Halloween Is Coming opens with the small details of anticipation: a cobweb down the hall, a mask left on the table, and children changing their minds about what they will be. Shopping For A Costume, The Little Witch Upstairs, and Everybody's Getting Ready for Halloween carry the preparations through crowded store aisles, a pointed hat waiting on a bedroom chair, and a whole neighborhood decorating at once. Once night falls, the scares turn playful. Trick-or-treaters find a surprise on every porch, a house party fills with guests whose costumes seem a little too convincing, and a moonlit date takes an unexpected turn. The vocal lines stay easy to follow, so every story lands, whether the album plays for the family or at a grown-up Halloween party.