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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