Love For Sale

This day (December 23, 2007), in Mississauga, Ontario, died Oscar Peterson, a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. Tracklist : Cakewalk (2004) . Take the A Train . w/ Count Basie – Jumpin’ At The Woodside . w/ Joe Pass – You Look Good to Me . Sweet Georgia Brown [1985] . C Jam Blues (1964) […]

Anita O’Day, Jon Hendricks, Mel Torme, Weather Report, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Joshua Redman, Roy Eldridge, Benny Carter, Don Byas, Coleman Hawkins, Jo Jones, Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald, Paul Desmond, Charlie Haden. They are the “Jazz Legends” performers selected among the 257 Posts we publish this week. Here, they are reunited in one glorious playlist. […]

This day (November 23, 2006), in Los Angeles, California, died Anita O’Day, an American jazz singer. Digest Tracklist : Love For Sale (1973) . There Will Never Be Another You (1987) . It Don’t Mean a Thing (1986) . Berlin (1970) . On Green Dolphin Street . Honeysuckle Rose (1963) . Sweet Georgia Brown / […]

Bon Jovi’s ‘New Jersey’ is their fourth studio album produced by Bruce Fairbairn and released on September 19, 1988 by Mercury Records. Track Listing : 1.Lay Your Hands On Me (Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora) – 05:58 . 2.Bad Medicine (Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Desmond Child) – 05:16 . 3.Born To Be My Baby […]

Dexter Gordon’s ‘Go!’ is his tenth studio album recorded on August 27, 1962 and released the same year by Blue Note. Track Listing : 1.Cheese Cake (Dexter Gordon) – 06:33 . 2.Guess I’Ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) – 05:23 . 3.Second Balcony Jump (Billy Eckstine, Gerald Valentine) – 07:05 […]

This day (August 8, 1975), in Gary, Indiana, died Julian Cannonball Adderley, a jazz alto saxophonist.

Tony Bennett’s ‘I Left My Heart in San Francisco’ is an album recorded with the Count Basie Orchestra and released on June 18, 1962 by Columbia. Track Listing : 1.I Left My Heart In San Francisco (Douglass Cross, George Cory) – 02:52 . 2.Once Upon A Time (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) – 02:57 . 3.Tender […]

This day (May 14, 1952), in Dumbarton, Scotland, is born David Byrne, American singer-songwriter and guitanist, frontman of Talking Heads

This day (May 13, 1988), in Amsterdam, Netherlands, died Chesney Henry Baker, Jr. a.k.a Chet Baker, an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer.

This day (April 25, 1990), in Philadelphia, died Dexter Gordon, an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

Cecil Taylor’s ‘Love for Sale’ is an album recorded on April 15, 1959 and released by United Artists. Track Listing : 1.Get Out Of Town (Cole Porter) – 09:12 . 2.I Love Paris (Cole Porter) – 05:11 . 3.Love For Sale (Cole Porter) – 08:15 . 4.Little Lees (A.K.A. Louise) (Cecil Tayor) – 09:04 . […]

This day (April 10, 1971), in Springfield, Pennsylvania (USA), is born Joey DeFrancesco, an American jazz organist.

Caetano Veloso’s ‘A Foreign Sound’ is his twenty ninth (his second in English) studio album, released on April 6, 2004 by Nonesuch. Track Listing : 1.The Carioca (Edward Eliscu, Gus Kahn, Vincent Youmans) – 03:33 . 2.So In Love (Cole Porter) – 05:31 . 3.Always (Irving Berlin) – 03:43 . 4.Come As You Are (Kurt […]

This day (April 2, 1987), in Los Angeles, California, died Bernard ‘Buddy’ Rich, an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

‘Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook’ is a studio album recorded between February 7 and March 27, 1956 with an orchestra conducted by Buddy Bregman and released the same year by Verve. Track Listing : 1.All Through The Night (Cole Porter) – 03:15 . 2.Anything Goes (Cole Porter) – 03:21 . 3.Miss Otis Regrets […]

Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley’s ‘Somethin’ Else’ is an album recorded on March 9, 1958 with Miles Davis and released the same year by Blue Note. Track Listing : 1.Autumn Leaves (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) – 10:55 . 2.Love For Sale (Cole Porter) – 07:01 . 3.Somethin’ Else (Miles Davis) – 08:15 . 4.One For […]