Jazz With Strings: Milestones of Legends (10 CDs)

- Some of the most sophisticated original albums of Jazz with Strings

- Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Oscar Peterson, Cannonball Adderley and many more

- Arrangements by Duke Ellington, Tadd Dameron, Bill Strayhorn, Nelson Riddle, Neal Hefti

Elegance and romance, two core elements of Jazz ever since the Swing era, can be found here as interpreted by some of the greatest instrumentalists and the essential singers of classical Jazz. The seminal saxophonists Charlie Parker, Ben Webster, Benny Carter and Johnny Hodges shine as romantics par excellence with these intelligently arranged string ensembles the perfect soundtrack for an open fire.

The generation of Soul Jazz musicians Cannonball Adderley, Milt Jackson and Blue Mitchell is represented here alongside California- and Cool Jazz with Chet Baker, Paul Desmond and Stan Getz. And last but not least, there are the Divas with strings: Ella, Billie and Sarah! The first ever box-set chronicling the love affair of some of the greatest Jazz musicians with string arrangements.

(CD1)
■BEN WEBSTER - MUSIC WITH FEELING
1. Chelsea Bridge
2. Willow Weep for Me
3. There Is No Greater Love
4. Teach Me Tonight
5. Until Tonight
6. We'll Be Together Again (CARL FISCHER, FRANKIE LAINE)
7. Blue Moon
8. Early Autumn
9. My Greatest Mistake
10. What Am I Here For ?

■JOHNNY HODGES AND HIS STRINGS - PLAY THE PRETTIEST GERSHWIN
11. Love Is Here to Stay
12. Nice Work If You Can Get It
13. 'S Wonderful
14. Summertime
15. Soon
16. But Not for Me
17. Somebody Loves Me
18. They Can't Take That Away from Me
19. Someone to Watch over Me
20. The Man I Love
21. Oh, Lady Be Good!
22. They All Laughed

(CD 2)
■BEN WEBSTER - MUSIC FOR LOVING
1. All Too Soon
2. Love Is Here To Stay
3. It Happens To Be Me
4. My Funny Valentine (RODGERS, HART)
5. You're Mine You
6. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
7. Prelude To A Kiss
8. Come Rain Or Come Shine
9. Sophisticated Lady
10. Love's Away

■BENNY CARTER WITH HIS STRINGS WITH THE OSCAR PETERSON QUARTET - ALONE TOGETHER

11. Isn't It Romantic?
12. Some Other Spring
13. These Things You Left Me
14. Gone With the Wind
15. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
16. Long Ago (and Far Away)
17. Alone Together
18. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
19. Cocktails for Two
20. Key Largo
21. I've Got the World on a String
22. 'Round About Midnight

(CD 3)
■OSCAR PETERSON - SOFT SANDS
1. Soft Sands
2. On the Outside Looking In
3. It Happens Every Spring
4. Chanel
5. You Took Advantage of Me
6. Why, Oh Why
7. Song to the Stars
8. Echoes
9. I've Never Left your Arms
10. I Can't Get Started
11. Dream on a Summer Night
12. Susquehanna

■HARRY CARNEY WITH STRINGS
13. I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You
14. Take The A Train
15. We're In Love Again
16. Chalmeu
17. Moonlight On The Ganges
18. It Had To Be You
19. My Fantasy
20. I've Got It Bad And That Ain't Good

(CD 4)
■ELLA FITZGERALD SINGS THE GEORGE AND IRA GERSHWIN SONG BOOK VOL.1
1. Sam and Delilah
2. But Not for Me
3. My One and Only
4. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
5. (I've Got) Beginner's Luck
6. Oh, Lady Be Good!
7. Nice Work If You Can Get It
8. Things Are Looking Up
9. Just Another Rhumba
10. How Long Has This Been Going On?

■SARAH VAUGHAN - VAUGHAN & VIOLINS
11. Please Be Kind
12. The Midnight Sun Will Never Set
13. Live For Love
14. Misty
15. I'm Lost
16. Love Me
17. That's All
18. Day By Day
19. Gone With The Wind
20. I'll Close My Eyes
21. The Thrill Is Gone

(CD 5)
■CHARLIE PARKER WITH STRINGS
1. April In Paris
2. Summertime
3. If I Should Lose You
4. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
5. Everything Happens To Me
6. Just Friends
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. You Came Along
9. East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon)
10. Easy To Love
11. I'm In The Mood For Love
12. I'll Remember April

■CLIFFORD BROWN WITH STRINGS
13. Yesterdays
14. Laura
15. What's New
16. Blue Moon
17. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
18. Embraceable You
19. Willow Weep For Me
20. Memories Of You
21. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
22. Portrait Of Jenny
23. Where Or When
24. Stardust

(CD 6)
■CHET BAKER WITH STRINGS
1. You Don't Know What Love Is
2. I'm Thru With Love
3. Love Walked In
4. You Better Go Now
5. I Married An Angel
6. Love
7. I Love You
8. What A Diff'rence A Day Made
9. Why Shouldn't I
10. A Little Duet (For Zoot & Chet)
11. The Wind
12. Trickleydidlier

■HELEN MERRILL WITH STRINGS
13. Lilac Wine
14. Anything Goes
15. Mountain High, Valley Low
16. Beautiful Love
17. Comes Love
18. End Of Love Affair
19. When I Fall In Love
20. The Masquerade Is Over
21. Just You, Just Me
22. Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
23. You Won't Forget Me
24. Wait Till You See Him

(CD 7)
■MILT JACKSON - THE BALLAD ARTISTRY OF MILT JACKSON
1. The Cylinder
2. Makin' Whoopee
3. Alone Together
4. Tenderly
5. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
6. Nuages
7. Deep In A Dream
8. I'm A Fool To Want You
9. The Midnight Sun Will Never
10. Tomorrow

■JOHNNY GRIFFIN - WHITE GARDENIA
11. Gloomy Sunday
12. That Old Devil Called Love
13. White Gardenia
14. God Bless the Child
15. Detour Ahead
16. Good Morning Heartache
17. Don't Explain
18. Trav'lin' Light
19. No More
20. Left Alone

(CD 8)
■BILLIE HOLIDAY - LADY IN SATIN
1. I'm a Fool to Want You
2. For Heaven's Sake
3. You Don't Know What Love Is
4. Get Along Without You Very Well
5. For All We Know
6. Violets for Your Furs
7. You've Changed
8. It's Easy to Remember
9. But Beautiful
10. Glad to Be Unhappy
11. I'll Be Around
12. The End of a Love Affair

■CANNONBALL ADDERLEY - WITH STRINGS
13. I Cover the Waterfront
14. A Foggy Day
15. The Surrey With the Fringe on Top
16. Two Sleepy People
17. I'll Never Stop Loving You
18. (I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over
19. I've Never Been in Love Before
20. Lonely Dreams
21. Falling in Love With Love
22. Street of Dreams
23. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
24. You Are Too Beautiful

(CD 9)
■PAUL DESMOND WITH STRINGS - DESMOND BLUE
1. My Funny Valentine
2. Desmond Blue
3. Then I'll Be Tired of You
4. I've Got You Under My Skin
5. Late Lament
6. I Should Care
7. Like Someone in Love
8. Ill Wind
9. Body and Soul

■STAN GETZ - COOL VELVET
10. The Thrill Is Gone
11. It Never Entered My Mind
12. Early Autumn
13. When I Go, I Go All the Way
14. A New Town Is a Blue Town
15. 'Round Midnight
16. Born to Be Blue
17. Whisper Not
18. Goodbye
19. Nature Boy

CD 10
■BLUE MITCHELL WITH STRINGS AND BRASS - SMOOTH AS THE WIND
1. Smooth as the Wind
2. But Beautiful
3. The Best Things in Life Are Free
4. Peace
5. For Heaven's Sake
6. The Nearness of You
7. A Blue Time
8. Strollin'
9. For All We Know
10. I'm a Fool to Want You

■SONNY STITT - THE SENSUAL SOUND OF SONNY STITT
11. Try a Little Tenderness
12. Back to My Home Town
13. All of You
14. I Never Felt That Way
15. World Really Isn't
16. They Say It's Wonderful
17. Time After Time
18. I Love You
19. Once in a While
20. Talk to Me

■DUKE ELLINGTON - THE JAZZ SCENE
21. Sono
22. Frustration