01. Ella Fitzgerald — The Christmas Song
02. Kenny Burrell — My Favorite Things
03. Ramsey Lewis Trio — Sleigh Ride
04. Louis Armstrong — Winter Wonderland — Single Version
05. Nicholas Payton — Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
06. Yusef Lateef — Warm Fire
07. Will Downing — Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
08. Roy Hargrove — Frosty The Snowman
09. Jimmy Smith — Jingle Bells
10. Dinah Washington — Ole Santa — Single Version
11. Roy Hargrove — Let It Snow
12. Billy Eckstine — Christmas Eve
13. Louis Armstrong — Christmas In New Orleans
14. Ella Fitzgerald — Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
15. Oscar Peterson Trio — I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
16. Tom Scott — Feliz Navidad
17. Ledisi — Silent Night
18. Joe Williams — What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
19. John Coltrane Quartet — Greensleeves — Live At The VIllage Vanguard / 1961
20. Louis Armstrong — White Christmas — Single Version

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01. Antonio Serrano, Josep Perez, Ramon Angel, David Dominguez & Vicenc Solsona - Segundas Partes (05:17)
02. Ismael Duenas - Close To Me (Smith) (06:35)
03. Pirineos Orquesta - Above And Below (07:51)
04. Damon Brown - The Fool On The Hill (03:45)
05. VV.AA. - Early Autumn (05:45)
06. Antonio Serrano & Jose Reinoso - Organito de la Tarde (04:04)
07. Andreu Zaragoza - Just (01:37)
08. Jose Reinoso - The Gypsy (03:47)
09. Horacio Fumero - Contrabajeando (04:38)
10. Ismael Duenas - You do Something To Me (08:56)
11. Jon Robles - Duet (06:34)
12. Jordi Bonell - Natural Boy (05:30)
13. Gustavo Bergalli - Raynald's Dream (06:26)
14. Damon Brown - A Bigger Picture (06:41)
15. Jon Robles - Alone Together (03:39)
16. Francesc Capella - Musetten' Changes (05:03)
17. Luis Salinas - Bonus Track: Improfunk (03:12)
18. Guillermo Vadala - Bajopiel (03:34)
19. Javier Lozano - The Bakers (05:49)
20. Italo Boggio - Garryowen (04:09)
21. Roberto Faenzi - Motociblues (06:45)
22. Carmen Paz - Ausencias (07:31)
23. Ramdomnoise - King Of Nothing (07:00)
24. Ernesto Jodos - Four In One (06:09)
25. Luis Salinas - Nubes (04:26)
26. Anna Luna - Alone Again (03:39)
27. Javier Abella - Jazz Me Blues (03:22)
28. German Kucick - Isn' T She Lovely (06:59)
29. Tutti Fernandez - Verde Que Te Quiero Verde (04:22)
30. FBC - Improvisacion (03:42)

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01. Marcus Roberts-Let It Snow
02. Roy Hargrove-God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
03. Hilton Ruiz-Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
04. Vanessa Rubin-Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
05. Antonio Hart-Winter Wonderland
06. Christopher Hollyday-White Christmas
07. John Hicks-Jingle Blues							play
08. Carmen McRae-The Christmas Song					play
09. John Hicks-Jingle Bell Rock
10. Christopher Hollyday-Joy To The World
11. Steve Lacy-A Merrier Christmas
12. Hilton Ruiz-Rudolph The Red-Nosed Raindeer
13. Steve Coleman-Little Drummer Boy
14. Marcus Roberts-Silent Night

Great addition to any collection. It is one of our mainstays every Season. For the easy listening Jazz set, it may seem to get a little out there towards the end, but not too bad. ---amazon.com

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CD1


01. Anita O'Day - All Of You
02. Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine							play
03. Curtis Stigers - Side By Side
04. Ella Fitzgerald - I Can't Give You Anything But
05. Esperanza Spalding - Precious
06. Helen Merrill - In My Life
07. Helen Merrill - Let it Be
08. Holly Cole - Almost Like Being In Love
09. Jamie Cullum - London Skies
10. Jim Tomlinson & Stacey Kent - I've Grown Accustomed To His F
11. Johnny Hartman - I See Your Face Before Me
12. Laverne Butler - Affinity
13. Nat King Cole - The Surrey With the Fringe on
14. Norah Jones - Turn Me On
15. Shirley Horn - I fall in love too easily
16. Trijntje Oosterhuis - That's what friends are for

CD2


01. Daryl Sherman - A Hundred Million Miracles
02. Denise Jannah - Alone, Never Lonely
03. Dr. John - Black Night
04. Ella Fitzgerald And Joe Pass - Tennessee Waltz
05. Esperanza Spalding - I Know You Know
06. George Shearing with Nancy Wil - Born to Be Blue
07. Jamie Cullum - I Want to Be a Popstar
08. Laverne Butler - Make it Easy on Yourself
09. Lizz Wright - Chasing Strange
10. Nancy Wilson - All of you
11. Nat King Cole - Ballerina								play
12. Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You
13. Norma Winstone - Two Kites
14. Rebecca Kilgore - Summer Night
15. Sarah Vaughan - Just A Gigolo
16. Shirley Horn - Return To Paradise

CD3


01. Anita O'Day - Easy To Love
02. Carmen McRae-Marian McPartland - As Long as I Live
03. Dianne Reeves - Loads Of Love
04. Ella Fitzgerald - All by Myself							play
05. Ella Fitzgerald - Anything Goes
06. Jane Monheit - Bill
07. Jessica Molaskey - Look For The Silver Lining
08. Jessica Molaskey John Pizzarel - You're a Builder Upper
09. Laika Fatien - Inchworm
10. Laverne Butler - Go Away Little Boy
11. Nat King Cole - Joe Turner Blues
12. Nat 'King' Cole & His Trio fea - You're Looking At Me
13. Peter Cincotti - You Stepped Out of a Dream
14. Shirley Horn - Here's to Life
15. Silje Nergaard - Bewitched
16. Stacey Kent - What the World Needs Now Is Lo

CD4


01. Deborah Cox - I Don't Hurt Anymore
02. Dee Dee Bridgewater - If You Can't Sing It, You'll H
03. Ella Fitzgerald - This Time The Dream's On Me
04. Frank Sinatra & Count Basie - I Can't Stop Loving You
05. George Shearing with Nancy Wil - All Night Long
06. Jacqui Naylor - Tell Me More & More & Then Som
07. John Pizzarelli - I Was a Little Too Lonely
08. Melody Gardot - Some Lessons
09. Meredith D'ambrosio - Amazon Lily
10. Patti Austin - Our Love Is Here to Stay
11. Peggy Lee - I Love You But I Don't Like You				play
12. Rickie Lee Jones - Love Junkyard
13. Tierney Sutton - People Will Say We're In Love
14. Trijntje Oosterhuis - This house is empty now

CD5


01. Anita O'Day - What Is This Thing Called Love
02. Ella Fitzgerald - Looking For A Boy
03. Holly Cole - Too Darn Hot
04. Jeanie Bryson - Simple Song
05. John Sheridan-Rebecca Kilgore - Walkin' by the River
06. Laika Fatien - This Is For Albert Ayler
07. Leah Kline - Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Fri				play
08. Mary Stallings - 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
09. Molly Johnson - Lush Life
10. Nat King Cole - Funny
11. Patricia Barber - Bye Bye Blackbird
12. Sarah Vaughan - VANITY
13. Shirley Horn - Violets For Your Furs
14. Simone - I Wish I Knew How it Would Fee
15. Tierney Sutton - Last Dance Dancing In The Dark

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01. Euge Groove - 12:08 AM
02. Doc Powell - Soul Strut
03. Earl Klugh - C'est Si Bon
04. Larry Carlton - Sleepwalk
05. Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin - Get Up, Stand Up
06. Earl Klugh - Driftin'
07. Eric Darius - If I Ain't Got You
08. Joe Sample - The Road Less Traveled
09. Eric Gale - Mako D'Amour
10. Chuck Loeb - Love Is All
11. Doc Powell - Let It
12. Jonathan Butler - Do You Love Me?
13. Everette Harp - In Time
14. Chieli Minucci & Special EFX - Till The End Of Time
15. Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man

This is a mellow mix of smooth jazz to chill with.

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1 	–Kenny Clarke -	52nd Street Theme 	
2 	–Dizzy Gillespie -	Bebop 	
3 	–Dizzy Gillespie  Charlie Parker - Hot House 	
4 	–Billy Eckstine -	Blowin' The Blues Away 	
5 	–Dexter Gordon  Wardell Gray - The Chase 	
6 	–Jay McShann -	Swingmatism 	
7 	–Thelonious Monk -	Round Midnight 	
8 	–Bud Powell -	Dance Of The Infidels 	
9 	–Lennie Tristano -	Interlude 	
10 	–Howard McGhee -	Down Home 	
11 	–Fats Navarro -	Nostalgia 	
12 	–Serge Chaloff - Blue Serge 	
13 	–Al Haig -	Pennies From Heaven 	
14 	–Woody Herman -	Apple Honey 	
15 	–Metronome All Stars -	Victory Ball 	
16 	–Charlie Parker  Dizzy Gillespie - A Night In Tunisia

World War II brought an end to the heyday of swing. Big bands began to shrivel, as musicians were sent overseas to fight. For this reason, the 1940s saw a surge in smaller ensembles, such as quartets and quintets. Groups often consisted of one or two horns, usually saxophone and/or trumpet, bass, drums, and piano. Smaller groups meant that the focus shifted from intricate arrangements to improvisation and group interaction.

Adventurous Improvisation

Swing arrangements mainly consisted of composed sections, but with certain sections designated for improvisation. A bebop tune, however,, would simply consist of a statement of the head, or main theme, extended solos over the head’s harmonic structure, and then one final statement of the head. It was common for bebop musicians to compose new, complex melodies over well-known chord progressions. One example of this is Charlie Parker’s “Ornithology,” which is based on the changes from “How High the Moon,” a popular show tune in the 1940s.

Beyond Swing

With the focus on improvisation, bebop allowed for an explosion of innovation. Inspired by the more harmonically and rhythmically experimental players in swing era, such as Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Art Tatum, and Roy Eldridge, bebop musicians expanded the palette of musical devices from which to choose while improvising. Many aspects of swing were imported, including the triplet-based swing feel and a proclivity for the blues.

Typically however, bebop musicians played tunes at much faster tempos. Soloists did not concern themselves as much with lyricism, but more with rhythmic unpredictability and harmonic complexity. It wasn’t just the soloists who were important, however. The advent of bebop marked an expansion of the roles of the rhythm section players, who were no longer simply time-keepers, but who interacted with the soloist with their own embellishments.

Nonsense Syllables

The term “bebop” is an onomatopoeic reference to the accented melodic lines of the music. Sometimes shortened to “bop,” the name was most likely given to the style music retroactively, as the musicians themselves often referred to their style simply as “modern jazz.” ---Michael Verity, jazz.about.com

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01. Count Basie: Michelle
02. Wes Montgomery: Eleanor Rigby
03. Wills Jackson: A Hard Day s Night
04. Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66: With A Little Help From My Friends
05. Monty Alexander: Let it be
06. Oscar Peterson: Yesterday
07. Gerry Mulligan: Can t Buy Me Love
08. Ella Fitzgerald: Hey Jude
09. George Benson: Because/Come Together

Stones
10. The Andrew Oldham Orchestra: Blue Turns To Grey
11. Kai Winding: Time Is On My Side
12. Shake Keane w. The Ivor Raymonde Orchestra: As Tears Go By
13. Ted Heath & His Music: Honky Tonk Women
14. Rotary Connection feat. Minnie Ripperton: The Salt of the Earth
15. Barbara Dennerlein: Satisfaction
16. Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra: Jumpin Jack Flash
17. Cal Tjader: Gimme Shelter
18. Caetano Veloso: Let it Bleed

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01. Mano Meter - Puppet On a String
02. La Rochelle Band - Madame (Parov Stelar Remix)
03. Stereo Swing - Dancing Daddy (feat. Gabi Szucs)
04. Re-Tide - Love and Happiness
05. Fat Magic - Hola Rey (feat. Cab Canavaral) [Remix]
06. Swiss Dance System - A Swingin' Safari
07. Invisible Tune - Swing
08. Nudisco - Respect
09. Filburt - V Got It
10. The Spectaphiles - Modular Intensity
11. Sean Bradford - Playground
12. Dernier Cri - Le Slapstique
13. Avelino - Monday Morning
14. So Phistry - One for the Road
15. Valdragz - Xtreme Conscience
16. Sante - Comme ci Comme Ca (Re.You Remix)
17. Sherpa Fm - Dance
18. Nikola Vujicic - Swing With Me
19. Johnny Lectro - Moonpie
20. Najwars - The Concrete Oracle (Christian Hornbostel Re-Dub)
21. Francis Red - Ribbin Riddim
22. Kiss Me Yesterday - Glitter
23. Gregor Weinberg - Fluffy
24. Basan & Fred Leone - All Night (Club Mix)
25. Le Deuxieme Choc - Project B

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01. Glenn Miller Orchestra - In the Mood (03:38)
02. Count Basie - April In Paris (Alternate Take) (03:48)
03. Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra & Duke Ellington Orchestra - Rockin' In Rhythm (05:19)
04. Buddy Rich and His Orchestra - Down For Double (04:06)
05. The Gil Evans Orchestra - Sister Sadie (06:56)
06. The Harry James Orchestra & Harry James and His Orchestra - Two O'Clock Jump (04:03)
07. Sarah Vaughan & Ernie Wilkins' Orchestra - Sometimes I'm Happy (02:55)
08. Quincy Jones and His Orchestra - Desafinado (02:53)
09. Benny Carter and His Orchestra - Crazy Rhythm (03:24)
10. Arturo Sandoval - Swingin' (08:16)
11. Woody Herman and The First Herd - Your Father's Moustache (04:36)
12. The Harry James Orchestra & Harry James and His Orchestra - (By the) Sleepy Lagoon (03:01)
13. Woody Herman - Four Others (02:54)
14. Buddy Rich & Lionel Hampton - It's a Blue World (02:50)
15. Louie Bellson - The Hawk Talks (02:36)
16. Gil Evans - Time of the Barracudas (07:26)
17. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Time Off (04:55)
18. Gerry Mulligan - I'm Gonna Go Fishin' (05:51)
19. Harry James - End of Town Blues (03:00)
20. Archie Shepp - Blues For Brother George Jackson (03:48)
21. Woody Herman and His Orchestra - Blues In the Night (03:12)
22. Maynard Ferguson - Love Me Or Leave Me (02:40)
23. Gerry Mulligan - Broadway (05:20)
24. Jimmy Smith & Lalo Schifrin - Theme From Joy House (04:38)
25. The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band - New Box (06:08)
26. Dave Grusin - Shuffle City (Live In 1983 Budokan, Japan) (04:22)
27. Charlie Barnet - Skyliner (03:03)
28. Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - Choo Choo Ch'Boogie (02:42)
29. Quincy Jones and His Orchestra - Straight, No Chaser (02:25)
30. Woody Herman - Don't Get Around Much Anymore (04:18)
31. Jimmy Smith - Walk On the Wild Side (05:55)
32. Maynard Ferguson - Easy To Love (03:10)
33. Edmundo Ros and His Orchestra - Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White (02:10)
34. Count Basie and His Orchestra - Every Tub (03:02)
35. Dizzy Gillespie - A Night In Tunisia (05:33)
36. Harry James - Sophisticated Lady (02:25)
37. Woody Herman - Caldonia (08:04)
38. Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins - Limbo Jazz (05:14)
39. Lionel Hampton - Flying Home (03:17)
40. Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra - Swing That Music (Single Version) (02:51)
41. Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - Perdido (Live In Newport / 1959) (04:46)
42. Dizzy Gillespie - Tour De Force (05:03)
43. Roy Hargrove Big Band - September In the Rain (06:59)
44. Frank Chacksfield and His Orchestra - Route 66 (02:04)
45. Jimmy Smith - One Mint Julep (05:28)
46. Lalo Schifrin - The Peanut Vendor (06:01)
47. Count Basie - One O'Clock Jump (04:28)
48. Woody Herman and His Orchestra - Woodchopper's Ball (Use MC47729) (03:15)
49. Quincy Jones - The (03:02)
50. Buddy Rich and His Orchestra - Jumpin' At the Woodside (06:31)

Big Band refers to a jazz group of ten or more musicians, usually featuring at least three trumpets, two or more trombones, four or more saxophones, and a "rhythm section" of accompanists playing some combination of piano, guitar, bass, and drums. "Big band music" as a concept for music fans is identified most with the swing era, although there were large, jazz-oriented dance bands before the swing era of the 1930s and '40s, and large jazz-oriented concert bands after the swing era. Classification difficulties occur when stores shelve recordings by all large jazz ensembles as though it were a single style, despite the shifting harmonic and rhythmic approaches employed by new ensembles of similar instrumentation that have formed since the swing era. By lumping the music of all large jazz bands together, marketers overlook the different kinds of jazz that large groups have performed: swing (Duke Ellington and Count Basie), bebop (Dizzy Gillespie), cool (Gerry Mulligan, Shorty Rogers, Gil Evans), hard bop (Gerald Wilson), free jazz (some of Sun Ra's work after the 1950s), and jazz-rock fusion (Don Ellis' and Maynard Ferguson's groups of the 1970s). Not all of them are "swing bands." Many listeners consider big band to denote an idiom, not just an instrumentation. For them, the strategies of arranging and soloing that were established during the 1930s link all large jazz ensembles more than the different rhythmic and harmonic concepts distinguish those of one era, for example bebop, from those of another, for example those of jazz-rock. Another important consideration is that journalists and jazz fans of the 1930s and '40s drew distinctions between bands that conveyed the most hard-driving rhythmic qualities and frequent solo improvisations, and those that conveyed less pronounced swing feeling and improvisation. The former were called "swing bands" or "hot bands" (e.g., Count Basie's and Duke Ellington's). The latter were called "sweet bands" (e.g., Glenn Miller's, Wayne King's, Freddy Martin's, and Guy Lombardo's). Although the big-band era ended by 1946, there have been some large orchestras used in jazz ever since, even if virtually none (other than the Count Basie ghost band) operate on a full-time basis. Nearly all are led by arrangers. ---Rovi

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CD1:

01. Stan Getz - Serenade in blue
02. Mel Torme - Born to be blue
03. Phil Desmond - Circles
04. Shirley Horn - Go away little boy
05. Chet Baker - The Touch of your lips							play
06. Serge Gainsbourg, Alan Gorrguer and his Orchestra - Ce mortel ennui
07. Dinah Washington - Easy Living
08. Wes Montgomery - Sunny
09. Helen Merrill - Anything goes
10. Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster - Tangerine
11. Oscar Peterson - Bag's groove
12. Damita Jo - Romance in the dark
13. Chris Montez - The Day will come
14. Bill Evans - Time remembered
15. John Coltrane Quartet - Say it over and over again

CD2:

01. Till Bronner - Just the way you are
02. Gerald Albright, Will Downing - The Look of love
03. Chris Botti - When rain falls
04. Lizz Wright - Fire
05. Will Downing - Maybe
06. David Sanborn - Isn't she lovely
07. Natalie Cole - So many Stars
08. Till Bronner - When I fall in love
09. Nicoletta -Ou es tu passe mon Saint-Germain des Pres		play
10. Ronny Jordan - After hour (The antidote)
11. Berdy Belle - When my anger starts to cry
12. Jeff Lorber - Moonterrace
13. Kenny Rankin - Then I'll be tired of you
14. Laura Fygi, Michael Franks - Tell me all about it
15. Buggee Wesseltoft, Sidsel Endresen - Try
16. David Benoit - Someday soon

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