Various: Songs for a Lazy Sunday

By GRAHAM REID

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This "Winter 2002 Edition" of this series is for a Sunday when you're tired of your chillout ambience or things from that Groove Armada/Moby axis.

It's a 34-track, double disc of classic, low-stress jazz featuring pianists Erroll Garner (Undecided), Art Tatum (Moonglow), Bud Powell (Nice Work If You Can Get It), George Shearing (Someone to Watch Over Me) and other name players from the history books, like Peggy Lee (Stormy Weather), Charlie Parker (the string-embellished Parker's Mood), and Lester Young (I'm Confessin'), with some Nat King Cole, Dinah Washington, Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra (Night and Day) and Jo Stafford.

Yep, lazy in a very 50s way. Get out the cocktail shaker.

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