Jazz My Life - Favorite Songs (2009)



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Genre: Jazz, Blues | 2009

There have long been debates in the jazz community over the definition and the boundaries of “jazz”. Although alteration or transformation of jazz by new influences has often been initially criticized as a “debasement,” Andrew Gilbert argues that jazz has the “ability to absorb and transform influences” from diverse musical styles. While some enthusiasts of certain types of jazz have argued for narrower definitions which exclude many other types of music also commonly known as "jazz", jazz musicians themselves are often reluctant to define the music they play. Duke Ellington summed it up by saying, "It's all music." Some critics have even stated that Ellington's music was not jazz because it was arranged and orchestrated. On the other hand Ellington's friend Earl Hines's twenty solo "transformative versions" of Ellington compositions (on Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington recorded in the 1970s) were described by Ben Ratliff, the New York Times jazz critic, as "as good an example of the jazz process as anything out there."


TRACKLIST:

1- Dee Dee Bridgewater - Mon Homme
2- Etta James - Don't Get Around Much Anymore
3- Patti Austin - Too Close for Comfort
4- Susannah McCorkle - The Ballad Of Pearly Sue
5- Rebecca Kilgore - Moments Like This
6- Carmen McRae - If I Had You
7- Etta James - One For My Baby
8- Nat King Cole - Straighten Up & Fly Right
9- George Shearing with Nancy Wil - My Gentleman Friend
10- Ella Fitzgerald - Night And Day
11- Frank Sinatra & Count Basie - Fly Me To The Moon
12- Mose Allison - Blueberry Hill
13- Nikki Yanofsky - You've Changed
14- Renee Olstead - My Baby Just Cares For Me
15- Sophie Milman - My Heart Belongs to Daddy
16- Amel Larrieux - Younger Than Springtime
17- Betty Carter - The Love We Had Westerday
18- Billie Holiday - Me, Myself And I