Greatest Jazz Divas (3cd set)

Artist: Various Artists
Format: 3CD
Bar-code: 5060143490736
Cat No: NOT3CD073

£7.99

Jazz and Blues has often been considered a male preserve. But when the music came to the fore in the Twenties, the female of the species reigned supreme. Most of the ladies assembled here enjoyed their heyday in the Fifties and built on the early pioneering work of Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and their like. Both individually and collectively, they suggest that James Brown got it wrong when he spoke of a ‘man’s man’s man’s world’. This collection contains 75 original classics belonging to the greatest divas in Jazz, featuring songs from Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Dinah Washington, Peggy Lee, Billie Holiday and many more. Essential listening for any Jazz fan.

CD 1

1. Mad About the Boy – Dinah Washington

2. My Baby Just Cares For Me – Nina Simone

3. The Things We Did Last Summer – Nancy Wilson

4. I’m Beginning to See the Light – Peggy Lee

5. Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love) – Ella Fitzgerald

6. Come Rain or Come Shine – Chris Connor

7. Blue Moon – Billie Holiday

8. Comes Love – Carmen McRae

9. You’re the Top – Anita O’Day

10. Nice Work If You Can Get It – Sarah Vaughan

11. Ain’t it the Truth – Lena Horne

12. Everything I’ve Got Belongs to You – Annie Ross & Zoot Sims

13. Misty – Dakota Staton

14. Chicago – Eydie Gorme

15. Swinging On a Star – June Christy

16. You Go to My Head – Ernestine Anderson

17. T’Ain’t What You Do – Cleo Laine

18. Let’s Live Again – Nancy Wilson

19. All Or Nothing At All – Donna Hightower

20. Makin’ Whoopee – Dinah Washington

21. Strong Man – Abbey Lincoln

22. The Lady Is A Tramp – Rosemary Clooney

23. Too Marvellous For Words – Billie Holiday

24. My Heart Tells Me – Etta Jones

25. Anything Goes – Ella Fitzgerald

CD 2

1. Fever – Peggy Lee

2. You Make Me Feel So Young – Ella Fitzgerald

3. Love Me Or Leave Me – Nina Simone

4. I Don’t Want To Cry Anymore – Billie Holiday

5. All Night Long – Nancy Wilson

6. The Lady’s In Love With You – Annie Ross

7. They Didn’t Believe Me – Dinah Washington

8. Early Autumn – Cleo Laine

9. Too Close For Comfort – Eydie Gorme

10. Moonray – Dakota Staton

11. They All Laughed – Sarah Vaughan

12. Napoleon – Lena Horne

13. Let’s Face The Music And Dance – Anita O’Day

14. Fly Me to the Moon – June Christy

15. That’s All There Is To That – Etta Jones

16. It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) – Rosemary Clooney

17. It’s a Wonderful World – Peggy Lee

18. Just In Time – Chris Connor

19. IÕve Got You Under My Skin – Ella Fitzgerald

20. Everyday I Have The Blues – Donna Hightower

21. Brother, Where Are You? – Abbey Lincoln

22. Be Careful, It’s My Heart – Eydie Gorme

23. Trouble Is a Man – Ernestine Anderson

24. What’s New? – Carmen McRae

25. The Other Woman – Nina Simone

CD 3

1. I’ll Never Smile Again – Billie Holiday

2. What A Difference A Day Makes – Dinah Washington

3. I’m Lost – Sarah Vaughan

4. I Loves You Porgy – Nina Simone

5. Why Don’t You Do Right? – Peggy Lee

6. Speak Low – Lena Horne

7. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams – Ernestine Anderson

8. Puttin’ On The Ritz – Ella Fitzgerald

9. It’s Delovely – Anita O’Day

10. The Nearness of You – Nancy Wilson

11. Where or When – Etta Jones

12. When Lights Are Low – June Christy

13. Forty Cups Of Coffee – Ella Mae Morse

14. Thursday’s Child – Abbey Lincoln

15. No Moon At All – Dakota Staton

16. I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) – Rosemary Clooney

17. What Is This Thing Called Love? – Ella Fitzgerald

18. Manhattan – Annie Ross

19. See See Rider – Ernestine Anderson

20. Just One of Those Things – Anita O’Day

21. I See Your Face Before Me – Carmen McRae

22. I Thought About You – Billie Holiday

23. Almost Like Being In Love – Etta Jones

24. Summertime – Nina Simone

25. Born to Be Blue – Nancy Wilson