Essential Jazz Ballads

Various Artists

Laserlight/Delta

This 3 CD compilation includes two O'Donel Levy tracks.

Tracks / Musicians

CD 1:

• A Summer Thing - Zoot Sims
• I Concentrate On You - Ella Fitzgerald
• Ghost Of A Chance - Lester Young
• Embraceable You - Sarah Vaughan
• Goodbye - Benny Golson Quartet
• A Kiss To Build A Dream On - Louis Armstrong
• Lament - Slide Hampton
• Willow Weep For Me - O'Donel Levy
• Daydream - Bill Mays
• Blues For A Day - Dinah Washington
• A Child Is Born - Mel Lewis/Thad Jones Orchestra
• My Funny Valentine - Hank Jones
• The Thrill Is Gone - Helen Merrill

• Memories Of You - Zoot Sims
• One For My Baby - Joe Williams
• Mr. Paganini - Ella Fitzgerald
• I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good - Duke Ellington
• Blueberry Hill - Louis Armstrong
• We'll Be Together Again - McCoy Tyner
• Imagination - Carmen McRae
• A Sleeping Bee - Hank Jones/Meridian String Quartet
• I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You - Stan Getz
• Misty - Sarah Vaughan
• You Don't Know What Love Is - Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers
• Stardust (Live) - Lionel Hampton
• A Nightingale Sang In Berkely Square - Dakota Staton

• In A Sentimental Mood - John Bunch
• I Fall In Love Too Easily - Carmen McRae
• Body & Soul - Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis
• 'Round Midnight - Sarah Vaughan
• Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You - Zoot Sims
• St. James Infirmary - Louis Armstrong
• Bess, You Is My Woman Now - Roland Hanna
• My Heart Belongs To Daddy - Ella Fitzgerald
• Tenderly - '65 All-Stars
• I'll Close My Eyes - O'Donel Levy
• You Go To My Head - Teddy Wilson
• Out Back Of The Barn - Gerry Mulligan
• Little Darlin' - Hendricks, Lambert & Ross

I'll Close My Eyes was originally released on;

• Black Velvet, O'Donel Levy, 1971

• Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky, O'Donel Levy, 1974