It's All In The Mind – Fleurine Mehldau & Bobby Porcelli

"Meant To Be" was recorded at the legendary Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs.

Don Sickler: Fleurine was an energetic young lady from Holland with a strong desire to sing and to write lyrics to jazz songs. She got a recording contract to do an album, so she contacted me to find some songs that needed lyrics, and she also wanted me to write arrangements for her album. Bobby was one of the musicians I wanted to use for the recording session. Fleurine loved his playing and also fell in love with his composition Rejuvenate. She came up with the lyric: "It's All In The Mind." It fit the instrumental music perfectly, and Bobby really liked it.

Fleurine came up with this great lyric for Bobby Porcelli's instrumental composition Rejuvenate. It can be difficult to be faithful to an instrumental composition when writing a lyric, but not so for Fleurine. She came up with a gem.

Bobby is also a great flute player, and my arranging instrumentation idea for this new lyric treatment was flute, flugelhorn and rhythm section. Of course, Bobby wanted to solo on alto sax, and everyone wanted to hear him solo on his composition in a new vocal key! It came out fantastic, as you can hear on the recording.