Portrait in sound / by Davis, Steve, trombonist

Table of Contents: “…Portrait in sound (6:59) -- I'm old fashioned / Jerome Kern & Johnny Mercer (5:27) -- Shadows / Chick Corea (8:19) -- The slowdown (6:30) -- Darn that dream / Eddie DeLange & Jimmy Van Heusen (7:43) -- Runway (7:17) -- Somber song (8:28) -- A bundle of joy (6:34) -- I found you (6:18) -- Samba D (6:41).…”
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42nd Street. by Warren, Harry, 1893-1981

Table of Contents: “…Young and healthy -- Go into your dance -- You're getting to be a habit with me -- Getting out of town / words by Michael Stewart ; original words by Mort Dixon and Joe Young -- Shadow waltz -- Dames -- Keep young and beautiful -- I only have eyes for you -- The gold diggers' song : We're in the money -- There's a sunny side to every situation / words by Johnny Mercer -- With plenty of money and you -- About a quarter to nine -- Shuffle off to Buffalo -- Forty-second Street.…”

Live at Maybeck Recital Hall. by Barron, Kenny

Table of Contents: “…I'm getting sentimental over you / Ned Washington ; George Bassman (6:47) -- Witchcraft / Cy COleman ; Carolyn Leigh (8:36) -- Bud-like / Kenny Barron (5:20) -- Spring is here / Lorenz Hart ; Richard Rodgers (10:32) -- Well you needn't / Thelonious Monk (6:35) -- Skylark / Johnny Mercer ; Hoagy Carmichael (8:13) -- And then again / Kenny Barron (5:13) -- Sunshower / Kenny Barron (9:39).…”
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The poets of Tin Pan Alley : a history of America's great lyricists / by Furia, Philip, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Bhah, blah, blah, blah love: Alley standards -- After the ball: early Alley -- Ragged meter man: Irving Berlin -- Ragged and funny: lyricists of the 1920s -- Funny valentine: Lorenz Hart -- 'S wonderful: Ira Gershwin -- The Tinpantithesis of poetry: Cole Porter -- Conventional dithers: Oscar Hammerstein -- Paper moons: Howard Dietz and Yip Harburg -- Fine romances: Dorothy Fields and Leo Robin -- Hip, hooray, and ballyhoo: Hollywood lyricists -- Swingy Harlem tunes: jazz lyricists -- Midnight sun: Johnny Mercer.…”
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The man that got away : the life and songs of Harold Arlen / by Rimler, Walter

Table of Contents: “…-- The wizard of Oz -- An itinerant songwriter -- Writing with Johnny Mercer -- "One for my baby" -- "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive" -- St. …”

The man that got away : the life and songs of Harold Arlen / by Rimler, Walter

Table of Contents: “…-- The wizard of Oz -- An itinerant songwriter -- Writing with Johnny Mercer -- "One for my baby" -- "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive" -- St. …”
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The body & the soul / by Hubbard, Freddie

Table of Contents: “…Chaplin, Hy Zaret (3:22) -- Clarence's place (3:29) ; Aries (3:04) / Freddie Hubbard -- Skylark / Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer (4: 32) -- I got it bad and that ain't good / Ellington, Webster (3:41) -- Thermo / Hubbard (4:15).…”
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Wholly earth /

Table of Contents: “…And it's supposed to be love (5:12) -- Midnight sun / words by Johnny Mercer ; music by Lionel Hampton and Sonny Burke (7:23) -- Wholly earth (6:01) -- Look to the star (6:42) -- Another world (9:13) -- Conversation with a baby (6:36) -- If I only had a brain / words by E.Y. …”
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From sea to sky.

Table of Contents: “…Biali (5:50) -- Calling all angels / Jane Siberry (5:57) -- Woodstock / Joni Mitchell (5:24) -- I'll never smile again / Ruth Lowe (5:48) -- Stolen land / Bruce Cockburn (5:11) -- Mushaboom / Leslie Feist (4:57) -- Autumn leaves / Johnny Mercer (6:02) -- Anthem / Leonard Cohen (6:59).…”
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El rey / by Puente, Tito, 1923-2000

Table of Contents: “…Oye como va / Tito Puente (5:42) -- Autumn leaves /Jacques Prevert, Johnny Mercer, Joseph Kozma (4:09) --Ran kan kan / Tito Puente (5:08) -- Rainfall / Eddie Heywood (4:30) -- Giant steps / John Coltrane (3:50) --Linda chicana / Mark Levine (4:45) -- Medley. …”
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The legendary Oscar Peterson Trio live at the Blue Note.

Table of Contents: “…Introductions (1:56) -- Honeysuckle Rose / Thomas "Fats" Waller & Andy Razaf (8:50) -- Let there be love / Ian Grant & Lionel Rand (12:00) -- Peace for South Africa / Oscar Peterson (10:46) -- Sushi / Oscar Peterson (8:06) -- I remember you / Johnny Mercer & Victor Schertzinger ; A child is born / Thad Jones ; Tenderly / Jack Lawrence & Walter Gross (14:52) -- Sweet Georgia Brown / Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Sr., Maceo Pinkard (8:21) -- Blues for Big Scotia / Oscar Peterson (6:08).…”
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The Hollywood musicals.

Table of Contents: “…You stepped out of a dream / music by Nacio Herb Brown ; words by Gus Kahn -- Taking a chance on love / music by Vernon Duke ; words by John Latouche and Ted Fetter -- When you wish upon a star / music by Leigh Harline ; words by Ned Washington -- True love / words and music by Cole Porter -- Whistling away the dark / music by Henry Mancini ; words by Johnny Mercer -- Time after time / music by Jule Styne ; words by Sammy Cahn -- It might as well be spring / music by Richard Rodgers ; words by Oscar Hammerstein II -- I had the craziest dream / music by Harry Warren ; words by Mack Gordon -- Long ago (and far away) / music by Jerome Kern ; words by Ira Gershwin -- Crazy world / music by Henry Mancini ; lyric by Leslie Bricusse -- Burke/Van Heusen medley. …”

Mambo moves Garner / by Garner, Erroll

Table of Contents: “…Mambo Garner / Erroll Garner (6:30) -- Night and day / Cole Porter (4:04) -- Mambo blues / Erroll Garner (4:54) - - Old black magic / Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen (5:21) -- Cherokee / Ray Noble (3:53) -- Sweet and lovely / Gus Arnheim, Harry Tobias, Jules Lemare (3:54) -- Russian lullaby / Irving Berlin (3:24) -- Begin the beguine / Cole Porter (4:40) -- Mambo nights / Erroll Garner (4:09) -- Sweet Sue / Will J. …”
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"Grand piano" / by Shearing, George

Table of Contents: “…Hanighen, Gordon Jenkins, Johnny Mercer (4:27) -- It never entered my mind / Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers (4:44) -- Mack the knife / Kurt Weill, Mark Blitzstein, Eugene Brecht (4:39) -- Nobody else but me / Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern (3: 27) -- Imitations / George Shearing, George David Weiss (2 :38) -- Taking a chance on love / Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John La Touche (2:34) -- If I had you / Irving Berlin (4: 47) -- How insensitive / Antonio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel, Vinicius De Moraes (3:12) -- Easy to love / Cole Porter (3:46) -- While we're young / Fred J. …”
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Cookin' on all burners /

Table of Contents: “…You'd be so nice to come home to / Cole Porter (3:29) -- If I should lose you / Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger (5:00) -- I wished on the moon / Dorothy Parker, Ralph Rainger (5: 23) -- I've got the world on a string / Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler (6:23) -- Love letters / Victor Young, Edward Heyman (3:58) -- Why shouldn't I / Cole Porter (3:09) -- Lullaby of the leaves / Bernice Petkere, Joseph Young (5: 40) -- Just friends / Sam Lewis, John Klenner (3:49) -- I thought about you / Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Mercer (4: 21).…”
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Benny Carter : the collection / by Carter, Benny

Table of Contents: “…When lights are low / words by Spencer Williams -- Blues in my heart / with Irving Mills -- I'm in the mood for swing ; Boulevard bounce ; A walkin' thing ; Evening star ; Titmouse ; Malibu ; The courtship ; The stroll ; Ate a vista ; Blues for George ; Another time, another place ; The romp ; Easy money -- Key Largo / words by Leah Worth, music by Carter and Karl Suesdorf -- South Side samba -- Just a mood / words by Spencer Williams -- Only trust your heart / words by Sammy Cahn -- I was wrong -- A kiss from you / words by Johnny Mercer -- Rock me to sleep / with Paul Vandervoort II.…”

Tubalogy 601.

Table of Contents: “…It's all right with me / Cole Porter, Joe Murphy -- Moten swing / Bennie & Buster Moten, Richard Perry -- Almost like being in love / Frederick Lowe, Joe Murphy, Jim Williamson -- A time for love / Johnny Mandel, Richard Perry -- Pools / Don Grolnick, Richard Perry -- That old black magic / Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Richard Perry - - Senor blues / Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd -- Sandu / Clifford Brown, Richard Perry -- In a mellotone / Duke Ellington, Rich Matteson -- 'Round midnight / Thelonius Monk, Bernie Walker -- Manteca / Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo, Richard Perry.…”
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Hef's favorites.

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It's not about the melody /

Table of Contents: “…Naima's love song / John Hicks, Betty Carter (8:25) -- Stay as sweet as you are / Mack Gordon, Harry Revel (7:11) -- Make him believe / Betty Carter (5:10) -- I should care / Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston (3:26) -- Once upon a summertime / Eddie Bacri, Michel LeGrand, Johnny Mercer (5:58) -- You go to my head / Haven Gillespie, Fred Coots (5:35) -- In the still of the night / Cole Porter (4 :07) -- When it's sleepy time down south / Leon Rene, Otis Rene, Clarence Muse (7:45) -- The love we had yesterday / Pam Watson (7:17) -- Dip bag / Betty Carter (8:57) -- You're mine, you / Johnny Greene, Ed Heyman (7:12).…”
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Sing, sing, sing by Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986

Table of Contents: “…Johnson, Henry Creamer -- Goody goody / Johnny Mercer, Matty Malneck -- Christopher Columbus / Andy Razaf, Leon Berry -- Sing me a swing song / Stanley Adams, Hoagy Carmichael -- (I would do) Anything for you / Alex Hill, Claude Hopkins, Roberto Williams -- These foolish things remind me of you / Holt Marvell...…”