Kenichiro Nishihara - Sweet Swing For Hershey's

˙Title: Sweet Swing For Hershey's
˙Artist: Kenichiro Nishihara
˙Style: Jazz Hip-Hop, Piano
˙Released Date: 2011.10.19
˙Format: CD
˙Producer: FIL

01.Waltz For Debby(intro)
02.Waltz For Debby feat. Maia Hirasawa
03.LOVE feat. SHANTI
04.Hershey Bar feat. Sari Nakamura
05.It's Only A Paper Moon feat. Yuka Deguchi
06.Mister Sandman feat.日之内エミ
07.Cheek to Cheek feat. HanaH
08.Sweet Swing Interlude
09.Baby Baby feat. Tamala
10.Kitty(Baby Baby Interlude)feat. Tamala
11.Down With Love feat. Sari Nakamura
12.Why Don't You Do Right feat. Yuka Deguchi
13.Sweet Swing(Outro)
14.Anthropology[Bonus Track]


Let me give you little sunshine in the cold winter day.
Look at this lovely girl in the cover.I would say  this is also totally a lovely jazzy album!!
I wanna I talk about the background of the album and some brief info about the artist - Kenichiro Nishihara

Kenichiro Nishihara (西原健一郎) is a Japanese manufacturer of jazz and hip-hop music.
In this time, he made a concept album(concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing to a single overall theme or unified story.) for a worldwide known chocolate brand. This is a program which named"Sweet Swing for HERSHEY’S". As same as the name, we could feel the warm and sweet feeling which the whole songs gave us.

This album contains many soulful vocals, some of female vocals even came from Sweden and Spain, such as SHANTI, Maia Hirasawa, HanaH, day エ ミ, and Tamala. The songs are featuring some famous songs, like Bill Evans ''Waltz For Debby'', and Nat King Cole "LOVE" which are remix again and turn these into more soulful and jazzy style. 
The 7th song, "Cheek to Cheek" is very familiar to me. I always could sing the lyric "Heaven, I'm in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak..." even I was a little girl.

After the Outro song "Sweet Swing", we still have final bonus track which in order to memorize the legend person in Jazz field, Charlie Parker. I believe if you listened this album, you would have happy mood in every time.