Although cobbled together from three years of sessions recorded in collaboration with arrangers
Marty Paich, Don Costa, and Glenn Osser,
My Kind of Town hangs together as a cohesive listening experience -- fittingly, the themes of movement and change that underscore songs like "King of the Road," "Travellin' On," and "Somewhere Along the Way" parallel
Jack Jones' own creative journey, capturing the singer as he slowly but surely comes into his own as a consummate stylist. The rotating arrangers emphasize
Jones' range and scope -- by turns ebullient and melancholy, the songs are rendered with absolute purity of expression. [
My Kind of Town was reissued in 1999 on a Universal two-fer alongside the stellar
Where Love Has Gone.] ~ Jason Ankeny