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Chris Connor
  • Miser's Serenade (from Chris Connor Sings Lullabys of Birdland, 1954) Bill Gates's theme song?
Tal Farlow Grant Green
  • It Ain't Necessarily So (from The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark, 1962) That's Art Blakey on drums and Sam Jones on bass.
  • I Want To Hold Your Hand (from I Want To Hold Your Hand, 1965). With Hank Mobley, Larry Young and Elvin Jones.
Barney Kessel O'Donel Levy Helen Merrill
Charles Mingus
  • II B.S. (from Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, 1963)
Joe Pass
Leon Redbone Frank Sinatra Sarah Vaughan
  • Wonder Why (from After Hours, 1961) Mundell Lowe, guitar
  • Peter Gunn (from Sings The Mancini Songbook, 1964)
  • I've Got The World On A String (from How Long Has This Been Going On?, 1978) - With Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Louis Bellson and Ray Brown.
  • To Say Goodbye (from Cocacapana, 1979)
  • From This Moment On (from Send In The Clowns, 1981) This is not to be confused with the 1974 album of the same name. You don't want to make that mistake.
  • Moanin' (A Bobby Timmons tune from Sarah Sings Soulfully, 1963)



1from the liner notes of Sinatra and Strings . . .

"This Stardust, incidentally, is something special. Hoagy Carmichael equipped his great song with a verse that is, musically, just as interesting as the chorus and Mitchell Parish lavished some of his loveliest lyrics on it. But, despite this, the verse is rarely played or sung. In this arrangement, Costa has written a glowing introduction that builds towards a beautifully phrased rendition of the verse by Sinatra, a performance that brings out all the miraculous qualities of this neglected masterpiece. And after the song is all finished, see if you notice something unusual, anything strange. You should. This is the most unusual version of Stardust that has ever been recorded--because Sinatra doesn't sing the famous chorus at all. It is skipped completely. Everything is focused on the verse giving it the attention and recognition that has long been its due."