If you were a color, what color would you be? (You can think about after you read the rest of this.) Last night, I was blue, all shades, all hues, all blues – and all swinging.
SONG TITLE / Artist / CD Or Album Title
- ALL BLUES / Kevin Mahogany / “Double Rainbow”
- LADY SINGS THE BLUES / Billie Holiday / “The Carnegie Hall Concert”
- MOOD INDIGO / Frank Sinatra / “In The Wee Small Hours”
- BLUE TURNING GREY OVER YOU / Catherine Russell / “Harlem On My Mind”
- THE BLUES DON’T CARE / Nat King Cole / “Big Band Cole”
- STRAIGHT AHEAD / Jimmy Smith / “Bluesmith”
- LEARNIN’ THE BLUES / Tom Rust / “Are We There Yet?”
- JOE WILLIAMS BLUES / Ella Fitzgerald / “Ella At Zardi’s”
- ME AND THE BLUES / Joe Williams / “Me & The Blues”
- BLUE DRAG / Linda Carone / “Black Moonlight”
- WHEN SUNNY GETS BLUE / (Mystery Vocalist) / Jack Webb / “Just The Tracks, Ma’am”
- TODAY I SING THE BLUES / Randy Crawford / “No Regrets”
- EVERYDAY I HAVE THE BLUES / Van Morrison & Joey DeFrancesco / “You’re Driving Me Crazy”
- NO MORE BLUES / Roberta Gambarini / “Easy To Love”
- BLEE BLOP BLUES / Count Basie / “Count Basie At Newport 1957”
- BLUES ARE BREWIN / Weslia Whitfield / “Beautiful Love”
- MISTY / (Mystery Vocalist) / Tom Selleck / “Magnum P.I.”
- WILD WOMEN DON’T GET THE BLUES / Cecile McLorin Salvant / “Dreams & Daggers”
- UNDECIDED BLUES / Tony Bennett / “Playin’ With My Friends”
- FINE AND MELLOW / Nina Simone / “Nina Simone At Town Hall”
- GOOD MORNING HEARTACHE / Sarah Lancman & Michel Perez / “Dark”
- ONE FOR MY BABY / Tony DeSare & Edward Derrick / “One for My Baby”
- I GOT IT BAD / Nancy Harms / “Ellington At Night”
- MEANING OF THE BLUES / Carmen McRae / “Bittersweet”
- GEORGIA ROSE / Gavin Hope / “For All We Know”
- PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine
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