Dee Dee Bridgewater Mack The Knife (from Dear Ella, 1997) Blowin' Away The Blues (from Love and Peace, A Tribute To Horace Silver, 1994) Kenny Burrell Blues In The Night James Carter Strange Fruit - Reedist James Carter should be much better known outside jazz circles. This is from Gardenias For Lady Day, 2003. Chris Connor Miser's Serenade (from Chris Connor Sings Lullabys of Birdland, 1954) Bill Gates's theme song? Tal Farlow Straight, No Chaser (from The Return Of Tal Farlow - 1969, 1969) My Shining Hour (from Trinity, 1976) One For My Baby (from Chromatic Palette, 1981) - With Tommy Flanagan and Gary Mazzaroppi. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (from Cookin' On All Burners, 1983) 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. Billie Holiday Stormy Blues Milt Jackson Wonder Why (from Milt Jackson, Prestige LP7003, 1955). Compare Sarah Vaughan's extraordinary version with this straight-ahead rendition. For Someone I Love (from Sunflower, 1972). This is one of my favorite recordings of all time. The album includes Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Jay Beliner, Ron Carter and Billy Cobham. Barney Kessel I Love You (from Soaring, 1977) O'Donel Levy Willow Weep For Me (from Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky, 1973) Helen Merrill Don't Leave Me Alone (from You and the Night and the Music, 1997) Charles Mingus II B.S. (from Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, 1963) Joe Pass Night And Day (from Virtuoso, 1973) Lush Life (from Eximious, 1982) Stormy Weather (from For Ellen, 1992) Leon Redbone The One Rose That's Left In My Heart (from Champagne Charlie, 1978) Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (from Champagne Charlie, 1978) Frank Sinatra I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good (from A Swingin' Affair!, 1956) Stardust1 (verse only, from Sinatra and Strings, 1962) Come Rain Or Come Shine (from Sinatra and Strings, 1962) I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter (from Sinatra-Basie) I've Got You Under My Skin (with Bono, from Duets, 1993) I've Got You Under My Skin (from Sinatra's Sinatras, 1963) By any standard, Sinatra still had a good voice when he recorded with Bono in 1993. But compare that rendition with this one, recorded thirty years earlier in his prime. No one--not Sarah, not Ella, not Billie--could have done it better than he did. Zoot Sims I Wish I Were Twins (from I Wish I Were Twins) Jimmy Rowles on piano. The Fish Horn (from I Wish I Were Twins) "Fish horn" is slang for a soprano sax. 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) When Sonny Gets Blue (from Plus Two, with guitar giant Barney Kessel.) 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."