...randomly generated from my iTunes library.
1) Ca Mi Queria, Cristina Branco (surprisingly light-hearted fado); 2) Como Fue, Ibrahim Ferrer (melancholy big-band-backed Cuban jazz singing); 3) If It's Good (Then I want It), Louis Armstrong (Pops sings, then blows, it's good, I want it); 4) Every Time It Rains, Randy Newman (I love him when he's ironic, but he's a balladeer nonpareil as well); 5) Twisted, Wardell Gray (if Charlie Parker played tenor); 6) Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant Part 1 & 2, Return to Forever (groovin' long-form fusion); 7) Stompin at Decca, The Django Reinhardt Festival (violin and saxophone capture the gypsy's essence and a guitar in the mode of the master follows, plus ensemble)
8) Deep Blue Sea, Nat Simpkins (sax, organ and guitar, to have sex by, naturally); 9) Scrapple from the Apple, Charlie Parker (what more need be said); 10) There's a Small Hotel, J. J. Johnson (lyrical isn't a term you associate with the trombone, except maybe with this guy); 11) Lonesome Home Blues, Tommy Johnson (who's not Robert, but pretty much as good); 12) The Porch Faces Sunset. Richard Leo Johnson (who coaxes a symphony out of a piece of National Steel) 13) Go Ahead John, Miles Davis (pulse, drum, thrash, a compact funk-eee omelet)
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