Jackie’s Playlist

Jackie’s favorite music can provide you with insight into his character, accompany your time reading, or simply add some well loved classics to your collection.

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  1. Count Basie and his Orchestra, “One O’Clock Jump,” Decca Records 1937
  2. Dizzy Gillespie, “Mantecca” (1947)
  3. Louis Armstrong and the Dixieland Seven, “Mahogany Hall Stomp”
  4. Stan Kenton and His Orchestra, “Dynaflow,” Capitol 1951
  5. Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, “A Night in Tunisia,” Diz ‘n Bird at Carnegie Hall, 1947
  6. Oscar Peterson, “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” from Oscar Peterson Plays George Gershwin, Mercury 1952
  7. Oscar Peterson, “Blue Moon,” from Oscar Peterson Plays Pretty, Universal Records 1952
  8. King Pleasure (with Blossom Dearie), “Moody Mood For Love (I’m in the Mood for Love),” 1952
  9. Clifford Brown and Max Roach, “Jordu,” EmArcy 1955
  10. Thelonious Monk, “I’m Getting Sentimental Over You,” from Thelonious Monk at the Black Hawk, Riverside 1960
  11. Miles Davis, “’Round Midnight,” Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants, Prestige 1959
  12. Ella Fitzgerald, “All the Things You Are,” Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook, Verve 1963
  13. Red Garland, “On Green Dolphin Street,” Bright and Breezy, Jazzland 1961
  14. Frank Sinatra and Count Basie, “The Best is Yet to Come,” It Might As Well Be Swing, Reprise 1964
  15. Stan Getz Quintet, “The Way You Look Tonight,” Stan Getz Plays, Norgran Records, 1955
  16. Howard McGhee and the Blazers, “Canadian Sunset,” Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out & House Warmin’!, United Artists Records 1962
  17. Joe Pass, “A Sign of the Times,” A Sign of the Times, World Pacific 1966
  18. The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy,” Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at the Club, Capitol 1966
  19. Carmen McRae, “Gloomy Sunday,” The Sound of Silence, Atlantic 1968
  20. Dave Brubeck with Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond, “Rotterdam Blues,” We’re All Together Again for the First Time, Atlantic 1972
  21. Wayne Shorter, “Speak No Evil,” Speak No Evil, Blue Note 1966
  22. Thelonius Monk, “Something In Blue,” The London Collection:Vol.3, Black Lion Records 1971 (2003)
  23. Count Basie Orchestra, “Tall Cotton,” Basie Big Band, Universal Music LLC 1975
  24. Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, “Make Someone Happy,” Together Again, Improv 1977
  25. Dexter Gordon Quintet, “I’ll Remember April,” Biting the Apple, SteepleChase 1977
  26. Dizzy Gillespie, “Jitterbug Waltz,” Dizzy Gillespie’s Big 4, Pablo Records 1975
  27. Scott Hamilton. “Portrait of Jennie,” Close Up, Concord Jazz 1982
  28. Tony Bennett, “Street of Dreams,” Jazz, Columbia 1987 (originally recorded October 28, 1959 and released in 1961 on the album “Tony Sings for Two.”)
  29. Ed Bickert, Don Thompson, “I’ll Wait and Pray,” At the Garden Party, Sackville 1979
  30. Joe Henderson, “Take the A Train,” Lush Life: the Music of Billy Strayhorn, Verve Records 1992
  31. Count Basie Big Band, “One O’clock Jump,” Montreux ‘77, Pablo Records 1977
  32. Wynton Marsalis Septet, “And the Band Played On,” Blue Interlude, Columbia Records 1992