Jazz/Big Band/Standards music

[Reverie]

Tonight feels like a jazz kind of evening. Most of my CD's are either jazz/big band or classical. I'm just curious if there are any other jazz fans here and what their favorite CD's are?

Right now I'm listening to Sheena Easton's CD NO Strings. She does gorgeous versions of Someone to Watch over me, The man I love belongs to somebody else, and The nearness of you. If your a jazz/standards fan then you should hear this CD.It's a seriously melancholy CD though.

Another favorite is Carly Simon's My Romance. It has a great version of Something Wonderful and My Funny Valentine.

What are some of your favorite jazz,big band or standards CD's?

 

[lisalove]

Does Ray Charles qualify as big band?...cuz he's my fave.

I love jazz, but not familiar with many musicians names. I like Dinah Washington.

 

[Reverie]

I think Ray Charles falls more into classic R&B but he may have done some jazz or standards, I'm not sure.

Dinah Washington was great! I've got a Rodger's and Hart Songbook CD with her version of I Could Write a Book, and I love it.

Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra are two of my all time favorites.

 

[HighSchoolJock]

i think that some of the early stuff ray did for atlantic might qualify has having a big band sound to it but no i dont think ray would fall under the accepted definition of what big band is

 

[JazzManJim]

Virtually anything by Frank Sinatra or Ella Fitzgerald is absolutely timeless.

I have quite a few albums by Maynard Ferguson and his orchestra which are far more recent, but really swing. His big band version of "Birdland" is the standard for big bands everywhere today.

I also like Buddy Rich's group. His rendition of "Mercy Mercy Mercy" is kind of a rock-swing loving adaptation of the Cannonball Adderly classic.

You also can never go wrong with the groups from the old days. Climb in the wayback machine and looks up soe of the folks who didn't get a lot of air play: Chick Webb, the early Count Basie (which had the strongest rhythm section ever!), the early Tommy Dorsey (with a young Frankie behind the Mic), or the Casa Loma Orchestra.

Then again, I'm a huge swing band fan.