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Hibernation, hyper nation. The inevitable is forgettable. Rhythm and rhyme pass the time as dusks dream of dawning …

Yeah whatever here’s some jazz you might like. Substitute for holiday tunes and hang in there with me, we’ll get through this together. Can you handle an hour of hastily hacked together jazzers, like torn bits of pages from the Great American Songbook glued ransom-note-style across your ears? Probably.

Tracklist

0:00 Wait Till You See Him - Ella Fitzgerald
1:28 Moon Love - Glenn Miller & Ray Eberle (vocals)
4:19 Rockin’ In Rhythm - Duke Ellington
7:31 Deep Purple - Artie Shaw & Helen Forrest (vocals)
10:41 Body And Soul - Coleman Hawkins
13:41 Autumn Leaves - Artie Shaw
17:10 When It’s Sleepy Time Down South - Louis Armstrong
20:30 Shaw Nuff - Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker
24:45 I Know That You Know - Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie & Sony Stitt
30:12 I’m Always True To You In My Fashion - Ella Fitzgerald
33:00 God Bless The Child - Billie Holiday
35:53 In The Still Of The Night - Charlie Parker
39:15 The Lady’s In Love - Maynard Ferguson
41:51 On The Street Where You Live - Stan Kenton
44:08 Sweetie Pie - Stan Getz
46:37 And The Angels Sing - Benny Goodman & Martha Tilton (vocals)
49:47 Night And Day - Charlie Parker
52:37 Struttin’ With Some Barbeque - Louis Armstrong
55:31 Goodnight, My Love - Benny Goodman
58:36 Shiny Stockings - Count Basie

AUDIO[1:03:53, 192kbps MP3, 87.9 MB]

P.S., there’s extra material in the podcast: alternate interpretations of a few tunes and some bad studio takes. You know what to do.

Previously: Summery

Update: Thanks to [Christoph]([link]) there’s a cue sheet available if you dig that kind of thing.