Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Jim Shepherd (flugel) & Helen Varley (tenor horn)

Hard to believe it's a year since the wonderful Jim Shepherd left us. I thought people might like to hear a couple of lovely recordings where Jim was playing flugel horn. Despite his incredible dexterity as the world's best cornet player it has always been his slow melody recordings that I love the most, especially on flugel when he had such a gorgeous dark tone and the jazziest slow vib. It was so much fun to record the duet Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - this one has Jim's twinkle in the cheeky last bar. The song was composed by Richard Leigh, and originally made famous by Crystal Gale in 1977. This lovely arrangement is by Goff Richards, the finest of brass band arrangers.