Wake Up Alone

 

I Wake Up Alone
(Winehouse/O'Duffy)
Amy Winehouse

Terrible Things

         I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

 Tom Waits

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Drunk in San Francisco

 

I'm Always Drunk in San Francisco
(Wolf)
Carmen McRae

Heaven Too

 

All This and Heaven Too
(Van Heusen/De Lange)
Mel Torme

In the Streets

                                My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.
Edith Piaf

Everything Happens to Me

 

Everything Happens to Me
(Adair/Dennis)
Nat King Cole

Not a Home

 A House is Not a Home
(Bacharach/David)
Kurt Elling

Can't Sleep

I can't drink, i can't eat, i can't think, i can't sleep

So lets have a song, lets have it loud

The louder the better to drown out the crowd

O' here is my order

Waiter just make mine blues

Waiter Make Mine Blues

(Biondi/O'Day)

Anita O'Day

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Put a Spell on You

 

I Put a Spell on You
(Hawkins)
Nina Simone

Talking to the Shadows

I'm talking to the shadows
One o'clock til four
And lord how slow the moments go
When all i do is pour
Black Coffee

Black Coffee
(Burke/Webster)
Ella Fitzgerald

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Nina Leen

Blue World

 

It's a Blue World
(Wright/Forrest)
Frank Sinatra

That Horn Flew

   
              The melody got lost, first off. Everything got lost, then, while that horn flew. It was only jazz ; it was the heart of jazz, and the insides, pulled out with the roots and held up for everybody to see ; it was the blues that told the story of all the lonely cats and all the ugly whores who ever lived ........

Charles Beaumont
Black Country
1954

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Fats Navarro

Body and Soul

 

Body and Soul
(Heyman/Green/Sour/Eyton)
Art Pepper

I Was Trouble

I cheated myself
Like i knew i would
I told you i was trouble

Yeah, you know that i'm no good

You Know I'm No Good
(Winehouse)
Amy Winehouse

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Audrey Marquis

Straight Life

       A rhapsodic riff on self-destruction. It is also one of the saddest autobiographies ever written.

Terry Castle

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Straight Life - Art Pepper

Shadow Ballads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZQwffbT9Go&t=616s

Nancy

 

Nancy with the Laughing Face
(Van Heusen/Silvers)
Greg Fishman & Jeremy Monteiro

A Losing Hand

Played out by the band
Love is a losing hand
More than i could stand
Love is a losing hand
Self-professed, profound

Til the chips were down
I know you're a gambling man
Love is a losing hand

Love is a Losing Game
(Winehouse)
Amy Winehouse

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Dita Von Teese 

Should Care

 

I Should Care
(Cahn/Stordahl/Weston)
Hank Mobley

Hard to Dance

Down by the Riverside motel
It's ten below and falling
By a ninety-nine cent store
She closed her eyes and started swaying
But it's so hard to dance that way
When it's cold and there's no music
Oh your old hometown's so far away
But inside your head there's a record that's playing

Hold On
(Brennan/Waits)
Tom Waits

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