PLAYLIST FOR “THE BLUES” (4.14.18)

If you were a color, what color would you be? (You can think about that 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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