Another standout from Shades of Blue, "Slim’s Return" bounces together on the bass strings of a sample of "Book of Slim," originally executed by the jazz-blues grasp Gene Harris. The result, Shades in Blue, feels a lot a lot more in his wheelhouse than Yesterday’s New Quintet, his previous, additional ambitious foray into jazz. It does experience rather formal - shades of Sam Spence’s frosty, autumn NFL classic soundtrack.