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The season of colour washes over the earth with crisp mornings, early evenings, golden vistas and falling leaves. And to go with it a collection of some of the most tender, wistful and nostalgic songs by the greatest jazz legends of today and yesteryear. This collection brings 20 songs to mark the the most fascinating of all seasons. The still-centre of the year, if you like, with its quiet coming straight after the hustle and bustle of summer; the most technicolour of the seasons with its wonderful vistas of trees changing the colour of their leaves shot through with shafts of 'narrow daylight', drifting down slowly, silently down to the blanket of leaves below; the most aromatic of the seasons; the most reflective and thoughtful; and, in some ways, the most intriguing: one minute a crisp evening, another a sudden burst of thunder and lightning and a sharp, sudden shower. All these wonderful changes in nature are reflected in this, the second of a series of seasonal jazz cds celebrating the greats giving their voices and instruments to 20 carefully-chosen songs. The list is a who's who of great names - sarah vaughan, nina simone, ella ftizgerald, louis armstrong, johnny hartman, dinah washington, billie holiday, laura fygi, lizz wright. Together they represent both the timeless and the new.