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• Time Out

  Time Further Out

  Dave Brubeck Quartet

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  Brubeck has so much fun experimenting with odd time signatures. My personal favorite is "Take Five." I love is so much that it was a feature song at my wedding reception.

• In Full Swing

  MacFarlane, Seth, 1973-

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  Yes, THAT Seth MacFarlane - of Family Guy fame. He can actually sing very well!

• Built to Last

  Rippingtons (Musical group)

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  This album makes a great road trip soundtrack! I especially like "American Panorama" and "We Made a New World."

• Body & Soul

  Ferguson, Maynard

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  The title song has a fantastic tenor sax solo by Rick Margitza.

• The Roots of Swing N' Jive

  Jersey Bounce

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  Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Count Basie... What's not to love?

• Heavy Weather

  Weather Report (Musical group)

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  I have had a special fondness for their version of "Birdland" since playing it many, many years ago in a high school jazz band.

• United We Swing

  Wynton Marsalis Septet,

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  This is a new CD by Wynton Marsalis. He comes from a family of great jazz artists. His dad, Ellis Marsalis, plays piano, Branford (brother) plays saxaphone) and Marsalis plays trumpet and now leads the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.

• French Fries & Champagne

  Hot Sardines (Musical group)

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  This group is so much fun! They can make you feel like your in a speakeasy, cabaret, or jazz hall of decades past.

• The Capitol Studios Sessions

  Goldblum, Jeff, 1952-

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  Jeff Goldblum. He can really play. He's also got some great featured guests on this CD.

• The Shocking Miss Emerald

  Caro Emerald, 1981-

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  Caro Emerald is a Dutch jazz singer who adds a pop flare to her music. I think my favorites are "Pack up the Louis" and "Coming Back as a Man."

• Swingin' New Big Band

  Rich, Buddy, 1917-1987

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  He has some great drum solos and sax solis (where the entire sax section is featured.) I love "Sister Sadie" and "Lament for Lester" has a nice schmaltzy vibe.

• Yardbird Suite

  Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955

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  "Ornithology" gets stuck in my head and I will be singing it for days.

• A Social Call

  Horn, Jazzmeia

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  Jazzmeia Horn is a fairly new American jazz singer and she is incredible and has a great scat. She sings the standards but in a new way. I love "I Remember You."

• The Junction

  Manhattan Transfer (Musical group),

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  This group has gone through many changes since they began in 1969 but they still have the same great sound!

• The Essentials

  Bradlee, Scott, 1981-

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  You have never Radiohead's "Creep" they way Haley Reinhart sings it!

• America's #1 Band!

  Basie, Count, 1904-1984

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  I was so lucky to get to see Count Basie on his last tour when I was in high school (that was a long time ago!) He has remained one of my all time favorites and the song "Blue Skies" has a special place in my heart.

• The Centennial Collection

  Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959

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  Billiy Holiday, or Lady Day as she was known, had such a unique voice and was such a great story teller. One of my favorite songs she wrote and performed is "God Bless the Child."

• Crazy Love

  Bublé, Michael

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  Do you like Michael Buble? Then you like jazz. His arrangement of "Cry Me a River" is incredible.

• Kind of Blue

  Davis, Miles

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  Every song on this album was done in a single take. I can't even begin to tell you how phenomenal that is.

• Love Scenes

  Krall, Diana

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  This is the album that introduced me to Diana Krall and, although I love all of hers, this one remains my favorite.