Starting off with Chet Baker’s 1958 take on the Nat “King” Cole classic: “‘Tis Autumn” (https://youtu.be/oadsDshQpOc?si=BgcZr-X2uW3XjWzh)
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Chet Baker - 'Tis Autumn (Mono/Remastered 2023) (Official Audio)

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Next we have the man himself with “Autumn Leaves” (https://youtu.be/Gnp58oepHUQ?si=d-42UGgqGRJmKOx5)
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Nat King Cole - Autumn Leaves

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Coltrane. Getz. Kelly. Chambers. and Cobb. Here they are with their versions of “Autumn Leaves” in medley with “What’s New” and “Moonlight in Vermont” (https://youtu.be/HE9bRhUwELE?si=WwL6fFSJD-5rL7qG) and “Autumn in New York” (https://youtu.be/pc6CWfBgIt8?si=mUDlaTLGWnq-ocBp) This is from their 1960 concert in Düsseldorf, Germany that you can watch/listen to here (https://youtu.be/JmXOrzlehtE?si=zZIBmn6cCcTHuqKy) (Sorry it’s colorized)
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John Coltrane & Stan Getz - Autumn Leaves/What's New/Moonlight in Vermont (Live 1960)

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More “Autumn in New York”? More “Autumn in New York”! (https://youtu.be/OI7Cl0zVG1Q?si=eCDVbFoQ4CNsQscQ) this time by the dynamic duo of Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald . You can hear more of them together on the 2023 “Duke & Ella, Duke & Louis and Louis & Ella” playlist (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Zslnc5XTftZnLPwMoTT81gM32QXDNVK&si=x1QCrY4WVS28XZkv)
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Autumn in New York Louis Armstrong Ella Fitzgerald

Otoño en N. York - Fantástica versión por el dueto Ella Fitzgerald y Louis Armstrong.

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Now for the dearly missed Ahmad Jamal’s take on “Autumn Leaves” (https://youtu.be/xnW9wNN_IVg?si=UpwQS4jie99WBUN9) featuring James Cammack, Herlin Riley and Manolo Badrena
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Ahmad Jamal - Autumn Leaves - Palais des Congrès Paris 2017 - LIVE HD

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A late addition that was too good to pass up: Wynton Marsalis and his father, the late great Ellis Marsalis with “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning” (https://youtu.be/MCJi0th3L3I?si=ATJKaXQhWNc1lNX4)
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In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning

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The Gershwins “Foggy Day” from the 1937 Fred Astaire musical comedy “A Damsel in Distress” phenomenal Hazel Scott with Charles Mingus and Rudy Nichols (https://youtu.be/FWX8Tlu8Bqg?si=_-w0c11LJSDSqMpO)
#RetroView #HazelScott #CharlesMingus #RudyNichols #Jazz
Hazel Scott w/Charles Mingus and Rudy Nichols. "Foggy Day"

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Count Basie and His Orchestra (which included Herschel Evans, Ed “Tiger” Lewis and Lester Young!!) with their 1938 ballad “Blue and Sentimental” (https://youtu.be/uJrDC-bqw_o?si=kI4PcmOmoq0-e3Wx)
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"Blue and Sentimental" (1938) Count Basie with Herschel Evans and Lester Young

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Anita O’Day with The Ralph Burns Orchestra with a jazz-y version of the Tin Pan Alley song “Lullaby of the Leaves” (https://youtu.be/_byK6QD-CaY?si=pNn98IL1oa68lfyE)
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Lullaby Of The Leaves (1952) - Anita O'Day

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Samara Joy’s take on the Joe Myrow Jazz standard “Autumn Nocturne” (https://youtu.be/OEt-cG_MqvU?si=D5sQ3J25lrvMyJpi) is from her October 2024 album “Portrait” (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_neFZDJN-lVQXTzalZD4E6fgSr4wSUhuUA&si=_rafbyjoJ02ECspN) which is a late entry to my list of “Favorite Albums of 2024”
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Samara Joy - Autumn Nocturne (Visualizer)

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Herbie Hancock and Friedrich Gulda with Cole Porter’s “Night and Day” (https://youtu.be/0QplmRgXVr0?si=5wKNE051w7cNIVta) which was originally written for the 1932 musical “Gay Divorce”. You watch/listen to Herbie Hancock and Friedrich Gulda’s 1989 concert in Germany with Joe Zawinul here (https://youtu.be/Ozck4lFh0fE?si=IleMgN0mVKzcJDM5)
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Gulda & Herbie Hancock -Night and day

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Trumpeter Clark Terry, Guitar virtuoso George Benson and Flutist James Moody with “Misty” ( https://youtu.be/aRlRaEKeBig?si=rOAYg1WV78_H3-YH)
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Clark Terry, George Benson & James Moody - Misty - Pori Jazz festival 1988

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Actress and musician Julie London with one of her signature songs: “November Twilight” (https://youtu.be/f7sH16kMn7c?si=jrPuZWXln8s7UKhj)
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November Twilight

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I know it’s not September anymore but here the Divine Sarah Vaughan with “September in the Rain” (https://youtu.be/TEOzIc9LHGg?si=pNHeQh133rLccGDb). You can find this entire 1964 concert in Sweden here (https://youtu.be/_J8x-XueOQE?si=I5IR_5HK6YxfAgfi)
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Sarah Vaughan - September In The Rain (Live from Sweden) Mercury Records 1958

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Blossom Dearie with Tom Jones’s “Soon It’s Gonna Rain” (https://youtu.be/uKemuP8kgng?si=e0Z45L6hSbq7iaTv) from her 1967 album of the same name
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Blossom Dearie "Soon It's Gonna Rain" (1967)

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Sinatra - Here's That Rainy Day (1968)

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And finally: The Vince Guaraldi Trio with the “Thanksgiving Theme” from “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” (https://youtu.be/JkeGRvpqC0A?si=C2fK9mrrSC3OudYC)
#RetroView #VinceGuaraldi #ThePeanuts #ACharlieBrownThanksgiving #Jazz
Vince Guaraldi Trio - Thanksgiving Theme (Official Audio)

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Married to Bobby Troup, they starred on Emergency together in the 70s...I think that was post- divorce.