Kenny Drew plays the music of Harry Warren and Harold Arlen.

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Let's take a walk around the block : [from] "Life begins at 8:40" / by Arlen, Harold, 1905-1986

And then we wrote American composers and lyricists sing, play and conduct their own songs.

Table of Contents: “…Handy's orchestra) -- Like he loves me (Beatrice Lillie, vocal; Vincent Youmans, piano) -- Someone to watch over me (George Gershwin, piano) -- Star dust (Hoagy Carmichael, vocal, whistling, and piano; Artie Bernstein, double bass; Spike Jones, drums) -- Honeysuckle rose (Fats Waller, piano) -- Mood indigo (Jungle Band; Duke Ellington, piano) -- Anything goes (Cole Porter, vocal and piano) -- Strip polka (Johnny Mercer with Paul Weston and his orchestra) -- Sunday in the park (Harold Rome, vocal and piano) -- You are never away (Mary Martin, vocal; Richard Rodgers, piano; orchestra conducted by John Lesko) -- A sleepin' bee (Harold Arlen; orchestra arr. and conducted by Peter Matz) -- Anyone can whistle (Stephen Sondheim, vocal and piano) -- If my friends could see me now (Cy Coleman, with orchestra).…”

The Smithsonian collection of classic jazz.

Table of Contents: “…-- Big butter and egg man from the west / Louis Armstrong ; Percy Venable (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five) -- Potato head blues / Louis Armstrong (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven) -- Struttin' with some barbecue ; Hotter than that / Lillian Hardin Armstrong (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five) -- West End blues / Joe Oliver & Clarence Williams (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five) -- Weather bird / Joe Oliver (Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines) -- Sweethearts on parade / Carmen Lombardo (Louis Armstrong and his orchestra) -- I gotta right to sing the blues / Harold Arlen (Louis Armstrong and his orchestra) -- singin' the blues / Jimmy Mchugh (Frankie Trumbauer and his orchestra -- Riverboat shuffle / Hoagy Carmichael (Frankie Trumbauer and his orchestra) -- Four or five times / Byron Gay (Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra)…”

The music goes round and around : the golden years of Tin Pan Alley, 1930-1939.

Where have we met before : forgotten songs from Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley.