Feb 12, 2015
This year Nancy and I will literally be at sea on Valentine’s Day, returning to the Port of New Orleans from a week long cruise of the Western Caribbean. For those of you not so fortunate, here’s a set of tunes to serenade your Valentine at home, a Sweet Sixteen for the Sweet Fourteenth of February. Podcast 464 includes both jazz vocals and instrumentals, mostly standards new and old including:
Sarah Vaughn – “’S Wonderful”
Delfeayo Marsalis – “My Romance”
Karen Souza – “Wicked Game”
Lennie Tristano – “I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me Variations”
Alicia Olatuja – “Human Nature”
Donald Byrd – That’s All There is To Love”
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga – “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love”
Seamus Blake & Chris Cheek – “I Surrender Dear”
Jason Moran – “Two Sleepy People”
Frank Kimbrough Quartet – “It Never Entered My Mind”
Ryan Keberle & Catharsis – “Easy to Love”
Adam Birnbaum – “Ooh What You Do To Me”
Helen Merrill & Clifford Brown – “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To”
Helen Sung – “Never Let Me Go”
Jimmy Scott – “Someone to Watch Over Me”
Jim Hall featuring Bill Evans – “My Funny Valentine”