Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. In The Wee Small Hours Of the Morning - Gene Harris
2. Prelude To A Kiss - Duke Ellington
3. Everything Happens To Me - Gene Harris
4. My Funny Valentine - Miles Davis
5. Why Was I Born - Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane
6. The Peacocks - Howard Alden
7. Spring Is Here - Stan Getz
8. Blue In Green - Bill Evan
9. Angel Eyes - Scott Hamilton
10. Corcovado (Quiet Nights) - Charlie Byrd & Ken Peplowski
11. 'Round Midnight - Thelonius Monk

Disc 2:

1. How Long Has This Been Going On? - Karrin Allyson
2. Our Love Is Here To Stay - Patti Austin
3. You Are Too Beautiful - Curtis Stigers
4. At Last - Ella Fitzgerald with Joe Pass
5. You Go To My Head - Mary Stallings
6. Don't Misunderstand - Dennis Rowland
7. Body and Soul - Diana Krall
8. For All We Know - Susannah McCorkle
9. You Must Believe In Spring - Tony Bennett with Bill Evan
10. Sweet and Slow - Carol Sloane
11. More Than You Know - Mel Torme with the Marty Paich Dek-Tette
12. I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You - Carmen McRae with George Shearing
13. Solitude - Billie Holiday
14. Some Other Time - Ernestine Anderson with George Shearing

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16376 in Music
• Released on: 2005-02-25
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Compilation

Album Description
The ultimate 2-CD collection of late-nite, mood-setting jazz, featuring classic performances by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Diana Krall, Tony Bennett, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday! Playboy Jazz label. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Smoooooooth Jazz, with extra oooooo.
This set deserves 7 out of 5 stars. I really couldn't praise this two disk collection enough. It has been described as a sampler, and that's accurate enough. If you like (lounge) jazz enough to start a collection, but don't know WHO you like, this is an excellent place to start. As a musical genre, jazz is as diverse, if not more, than any other type. It contains Blues, Swing, Dixieland, Lounge, Ragtime, and a throng of others. These disks are primarily what I would call Lounge Jazz - the type you'd hear played on an ebony baby grand piano, from across a dark room, sewn with swirls of grey-blue smoke and perfume, as the redhead in the sparkling rhinestone gown, sitting next to you at the bar, orders a dry martini, and winks at you playfully. Got the picture? The first CD is all instrumental. Deep base, sultry horns / reeds, and a tickling of the ivories. I was almost afraid to put the second CD in, for fear that I'd be disappointed. Number two blew me away. I couldn't believe I liked it better than the first. My favorite track was 13. Solitude - Billie Holiday. I would recommend this set to anyone who wants to start a jazz collection, but doesn't know where to begin.

JAZZ-JUNKIE's delight!!!
For all you JAZZ-JUNKIES like me,(that doesn't sound so irregular), you will want this cd, especailly for the late night hours with that special someone. Yes all of us jazz junkies, already have this stuff in it's original context, but it's nice to have a variety at your fingertips, and this will introduce the novices to new artists liek Miss Ernestine Anderson(not too many people know about her), so buy this and if you love it, you may be a future "JAZZ JUNKIE", and there's nothing wrong with being a JAZZ-JUNKIE. So buy this cd you'll love it(& I love the "Beach house" humor, whoever wrote that original review must feel dumb). Just get this cd it's AWESOME. And one more thing... Jazz junkie, jazz junkie, jazz junkie, jazz junkie, jazz junkie, jazz junkie, jazz junie
J-A-Z-Z J-U-N-K-I-E!!! That's for the guy who wrote never say Jazz junkie(we exhist and you can't shush us up). You wil llvoe this cd, jazz junkie or not.

This is an exellent jazz sampler... for late night romance
Weather you want to relax after a long day at work, and get into your cumfy chair and read, or you want to romance that special someone with great jazz and a roaring fire, and a bottle of pink champaigne, this is the 2 cd set to do it with(sure there are cd's like "John Coltrane+Johnny Hartman" and "Charlie Parker With Strings", but this gives you a variety). This cd is not like msot hophodged cd jazz compilations(which I normally despise), this is not a sampler for your average bozo who doesn't know the difference between Kenny G & Eric Dolphy, this cd gives a difinitive overview of good jazz singers and solosits, and the songs flow and create a beautiful and at times exotic mood. Such great yet obscure singer like Ernestine Anderson and Miss Mary Stallings are featured here as well as great intrumentalists like Joe Pass and Gene Harris, and the newer but great Ken Keplowski. This 2 cd set will introduce you to not only yhe popular singers and soloitst but the greater obscure ones too. A great set of jazz, for any occasion waether in be a sophistocated cocktail party or a romantic date for two, or just you, a great cd, buy one for yourself and get one for a friend... A truly wonderful buy.