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Classic Jazz-Jazz Masters

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SONG LIST

Disc 1

1. Desafinado ~ Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd
2. Cheek to Cheek ~ Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
3. Sophisticated Lady ~ Ben Webster
4. Don't Get Around Much Anymore ~ Nat King Cole
5. Satin Doll ~ Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra
6. It Never Entered My Mind ~ Miles Davis
7. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat ~ Charles Mingus
8. Body & Soul ~ Billie Holiday
9. Cantaloupe Island ~ Herbie Hancock
10. The Seventh Son ~ Mose Allison
11. Walk on the Wild Side ~ Jimmy Smith
12. My Favorite Things (part 1) ~ John Coltrane
13. Embraceable You ~ Sarah Vaughan
14. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face ~ Sonny Rollins
15. The Sidwinder ~ Lee Morgan
Disc 2
1. Work Song ~ Cannonball Adderley
2. Comin' Home Baby ~ Herbie Mann
3. Basin Street Blues ~ Jack Teagarden
4. Stardust ~ Gerry Mulligan Quartest
5. Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Suiet Stars) ~ Jackie Cain & Roy Kral
6. Bumpin' on Sunset ~ Wes Montgomery
7. Waltz for Debby ~ Bill Evans Trio
8. Willow Weep for Me ~ Dinah Washington
9. Song for My Father ~ orace Silver Quartet
10. Every Day (I Have the Blues) ~ Count Basie & Joe Williams
11. Lover Man ~ Chris Connor
12. Stairway to the Stars ~ Dexter Gordon
13. Smmoth Sailing ~ Ella Fitzgerald
14. 'Round Midnight ~ Mel Torme and the Marty Paich Orchestra
15. Blue Monk ~ Thelonious Monk

IF you don't REALLY CARE about music; if you can't relate AT ALL if a friend mentions they "hear" music all the time whether or not there's an external source? Then this will do you no good ... sorry. Best spend the few irretrievable minutes you'll consume reading this elsewhere. It's OK, really. No condemnation. Go on ... have a good time elsewhere ... True, "Jazz is NOT for everyone," and it's true in the same way it's true that not all people dig poetry, literature, architecture, math or anything else that MAY require thought. But if you think you'd like jazz, or if you WANT exposure this is a GREAT place to start! Almost EVERY ONE of these cuts has become a favorite over the year I've been listening to this compilation. Of special note? Horace Silver, "SONG FOR MY FATHER;" Monk's "GOOD BYE PORK PIE HAT;" and Bill Evans' Trio, "WALTZ FOR DEBBIE."

So many of these tunes are organically linked to SO MUCH popular music of ALL kinds! As a musician of "a certain age," I'm transported to the late fifties and early sixties in L.A. Back when KFWB and the upstart KHJ ruled the airwaves. You were as likely to hear "Desifinado," or "Take Five," as you were "Splish Splash." Music hadn't been quantified, organized and computerized in those days ... "good music" was "good music" and we didn't KNOW we were listening to jazz! Now, it's a different world. Everything is specialized for maximum acceptance by the target demographic! But if you'd like to KNOW you can "expose yourself to art" painlessly as you cruise the inroads of jazz? This album is IT! In my humble opinion, of course. Enjoy!