Six more compositions jazz players like to play and a few tidbits of information about each one.

You’ll hear some of the famous Miles Davis composition, Solar, under the name “Sonny”—written and recorded on an acetate 8 years before Miles Davis claimed to have written it. This recording is NOT available anywhere on youtube. I also play a great modern version of the tune by Japanese saxophonist Hisatsugu Suzuki with organist Jun Miyakawa and bassist Dairiki Hara.

I also play two versions of Caravan—the original, and an 8 1/2 minute rendition by percussionist Ed Graham with the great Earl Hines.

Canadian jazz artists Lenny Breau and Robi Botos are featured in the two versions of The Days of Wine and Roses.

Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash wrote Speak Low—-and you get to hear Kurt Weill himself actually singing it. You’ll love his accent! Then I follow it with a duet by two very famous singers.

We begin the program with a Smile—first a wonderful acappella quartet, then a pianist named Alan Pasqua. Thanks to Ken Seidman for introducing me to his piano stylings.

The podcast ends with a tune written for a horror movie: The Uninvited, and an excerpt from the film where the tune is first introduced. A vocal version by Anita O’Day with Oscar Peterson, with the Jim Hall Trio takes us home.