Episode 111: More Jazz Standards

This week I play a couple different versions of five different jazz standards.

The five are: I Want To Be Happy, Embraceable You, Milestones, God Bless the Child, and Impressions.

One of those tunes came about after another tune by the same name was recorded by the same artist. Guess which one.

Then there was the ‘happy’ lyricist who lived to the age of 101.

You’ll hear a free jazz exponent play Gershwin.

Then there’s the song that was written as a result of one of the writer’s being in a rage when her mother refused to loan her money.

And the last one illustrates the influence of a classical ‘symphonette’ on a well known jazz composition.