Artist	Song
Charles Mingus	Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
John Coltrane	Giant Steps
The Kronos Quartet	Rhythm-a-ning
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie	Leap Frog
Duke Ellington	Lotus Blossom
Thelonius Monk	Brilliant Corners
Astor Piazzolla	Soledad
Duke Ellington	Mood Indigo
John Coltrane	Countdown
Chet Baker	Bea's Flat
Charles Mingus	The Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive-Ass Slippers
Hank Mobley	Smokin'
Sonny Rollins	Three Little Words
Eric Dolphy	Something Sweet, Something Tender
Dexter Gordon	It's You Or No One
Lee Morgan	Midnight Cowboy [edit]

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How do you do a jazz sampler on a single CD for someone who's open minded about music but not (yet) into jazz?I don't know.The basic remit was to produce "a horn-dominant and fairly challenging compilation." Well, I didn't necessarily go along with the former all the way but I tried for the latter. I was toying with doing a series of themed CDs (and was interested in what Geoffrey Balasoglou has done recently). I may yet do a series but realised that for this mix it needed to be a less daunting (to the curious listener) single CD. I then ended up with a CD that was so detrimentally 'challenging' as to be unlistenable. So, I chose to favour my own tastes (and, obviously, this is within the limitation of my collection) whilst also avoiding some of the more obvious picks, to up the curiosity factor. There are still doubts lurking in my head about the current mix, such as, [1] Would the Kronos pick be as fascinating to someone who didn't know the Monk original as to someone who did ? [2] How can you justify the inclusion of [a] the 'not really jazz' Piazzolla pick, [b] two representations of some artists, when so many others aren't there at all ? [3] Why include the relatively unknown 'Lotus Blossom' over all the other possible Ellingtonia, especially when it's a remit-breaking piano-based work ?Well the answer to [3] at least is because it's beautiful, this is Duke's elegy to Billy Strayhorn (who wrote it), it was recorded just after Billy's death and it tears your heart out. This mix was done for a friend called Enda who has been waiting a few months for this as I vacillated about content and format, hence the title. On another day this mix could have had a completely different selection :)

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