RetroJoe

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Lush Life & Other Jazz Favorites

Artist Song
Benny Goodman Sextet (vocal by Peggy Lee)  Blues In The Night (1942 #20)  
Jo Stafford  Blue Moon (early '40s) 
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman  Lush Life (1963) 
Bebel Gilberto  Night and Day (2007) 
Oscar Peterson  Volare (Instrumental) (1962) 
Stacey Kent  In the Still of the Night (1999) 
Coleman Hawkins, Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, & Benny Carter  Star Dust (Instrumental) (1935) 
Billie Holiday  Body and Soul (early '40s) 
Dinah Shore  Blues In The Night (1942 #4) 
Harry James  Lush Life (Instrumental) (1954) 
Ella Fitzgerald  Night And Day (1956) 
Coleman Hawkins  Body And Soul (Instrumental) (1940 #13) 
Peggy Lee  Strangers in the Night (1966) 
Sarah Vaughan  Lush Life (1956) 
Judy Collins  Send in the Clowns (1975 #36) 
Kay Starr  You Always Hurt The One You Love (1960) 
Oscar Peterson  When Lights are Low (Instrumental) (1957) 
Frank Sinatra  In The Still Of The Night (Live in Paris) (1962) 
Ella Fitzgerald  Heart and Soul (1960) 
Hank Mobley  My Reverie (Instrumental) (1957) 
Jamey Aebersold  Lush Life (Instrumental) 

Comment:

This mix is for my Dad for Christmas (along with a Christmas mix that I'll be posting in a couple of days). This compilation includes 4 versions of Lush Life (two vocals and two instrumentals). This song has haunted me since the first time I heard Sarah Vaughan sing it (track 14). Of the 14 vocals featured here, 12 are by women. Other noteworthy songs are Blues in the Night, Night & Day, In the Still of the Night, and Body & Soul (all 4 had two versions used for each song). Vocalists of note are Peggy Lee (tracks 1 & 13) and Ella Fitzgerald (tracks 11 & 19). For the musicians, noteworthy is Coleman Hawkins who is featured on tracks 7 & 12 and Oscar Peterson who I used for tracks 5 & 17. One song that isn't a jazz number is track 15, which even though I had a couple of versions that leaned toward jazz, they didn't mix as well. The jazz purists can remove that song from the mix if they like. As usual you can access this mix by clicking the link on the first song title. The picture is of Billy Strayhorn, who wrote Lush Life from 1933 to 1938. <!-- -->


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Skipper Bartlett
Date: 11/27/2007
Beautiful.
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sammyg123
Date: 11/27/2007
Lush Life is indeed, a beautiful song. As is the rest of this mix. Wonderful.
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Mark Petruccelli
Date: 11/27/2007
Love Trane's take on Lush Life and love a lot here but that Hawkins' version of Body & Soul is monumental.
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gobi
Date: 11/28/2007
I'm sure that Dad will love this . . . I would.
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hemizen
Date: 11/29/2007
Very nice. Lush Life is a song that you could make a one song mix with all different versions and it would sound great.