Jazz Cafe - 60 Smooth Jazz Favourites (2000)

CD 1 - Cool Jazz - 21 Smooth Standards 

01. Nat 'King' Cole - It's Only A Paper Moon (2:55) 
02. Louis Armstrong - Ain't Misbehavin' (2:55) 
03. Billie Holiday - Blue Moon (3:27) 
04. Glenn Miller - Tuxedo Junction (3:29) 
05. Lena Horne - When I Fall In Love (4:12) 
06. Count Basie - One O'clock Jump (3:04) 
07. Ella Fitzgerald - How High The Moon (3:15) 
08. Thelonious Monk - Round Midnight (3:08) 
09. Mel Torme - Night And Day (2:42) 
10. Duke Ellington - Perdido (3:03) 
11. Billie Holiday - On The Sunny Side Of The Street (3:02) 
12. Dizzy Gillespie - Love Me Or Leave Me (2:50) 
13. Jimmy Rushing - Exactly Like You (2:41) 
14. Dexter Gordon's All Stars - Blow Mr Dexter (3:00) 
15. George Benson - The Masquerade Is Over (9:28) 
16. Fats Waller - It's A Sin To Tell A Lie (2:55) 
17. Anita O'day - Opus 1 (2:54) 
18. Benny Goodman - Jersey Bounce (2:52) 
19. Louis Armstrong - Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans (2:59) 
20. Miles Davis - My Old Flame (3:14) 
21. Nat 'King' Cole - (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 (2:48) 

CD 2 - Jazz Cafe Hot - Sit Back Relax To Mellow Favourites 

01. Tony Bennett - I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face (3:02) 
02. Billie Holiday - These Foolish Things (3:34) 
03. Sonny Rollins - Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye (3:13) 
04. Frank Sinatra - S'posin (2:44) 
05. Dexter Gordon - I Should Care (5:09) 
06. 6 .Ella Fitzgerald - Angel Eyes (2:53) 
07. Nat King Cole - Embraceable You (3:23) 
08. Dave Brubeck - Take Five (7:09) 
09. Ray Charles - I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (2:24) 
10. Charles Mingus - Stormy Weather (3:18) 
11. Sarah Vaughan - Lover Man (3:22) 
12. Chick Corea - Moments Notice (4:20) 
13. Ella Fitzgerald - April In Paris (6:20) 
14. Miles Davis - Out Of Nowhere (4:05) 
15. Dinah Washington - Blow Top Blues (3:19) 
16. Eddie Harris - Laura (3:07) 
17. Carol Sloane - My Foolish Heart (4:44) 
18. Jack Jones - You've Changed'round Midnight (5:13) 
19. Astrud Gilberto - Far Away (4:24) 

CD 3 - Forever Jazz - 20 Outstanding Performances 

01. Billie Holiday - I'll Be Seeing You (3:29) 
02. Glenn Miller - String Of Pearls (3:18) 
03. Frank Sinatra - Sweet Lorraine (3:10) 
04. Stan Getz - Heartplace (6:06) 
05. Nat 'King' Cole - I'm Thru With Love (2:55) 
06. Dizzy Gillespie - Blue 'n' Boogie (2:58) 
07. Martha Tilton - And The Angels Sing (3:12) 
08. Ella Fitzgerald - Oh Lady Be Good (3:14) 
09. Duke Ellington - Take The 'A' Train (2:54) 
10. Sarah Vaughan - Summertime (3:15) 
11. Stan Kenton - The Peanut Vendor (2:42) 
12. Carol Sloane - As Time Goes By (4:09) 
13. Artie Shaw - Begin The Beguine (3:12) 
14. Frankie Laine - If You Were Mine (4:29) 
15. Wynton Marsalis - A Wheel Within A Wheel (6:27) 
16. Carol Sloane - Misty (2:58) 
17. Charlie Parker - A Night In Tunisia (3:01) 
18. Ella Fitzgerald - Tenderly (5:00) 
19. Sarah Vaughan - What A Difference A Day Made (2:49) 
20. Billie Holiday - You Go To My Head (2:54)

Smooth Jazz is an outgrowth of fusion, one that emphasizes its polished side. Generally, smooth jazz relies on rhythms and grooves instead of improvisation. There are layers of synthesizers, lite-funk rhythms, lite-funk bass, elastic guitars, and either trumpets, alto, or soprano saxophones. The music isn't cerebral, like hard bop, nor is it gritty and funky like soul-jazz or groove -- it is unobtrusive, slick, and highly polished, where the overall sound matters more than the individual parts.

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