The theme here was unordinary instruments -- many of the records featured instruments you don't often hear in jazz or at least not played that way. there was also an emphasis on singers less often played. and as usual, multiple versions of the same song.
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playlist below

title, artist, album (if available), other notes

Jump The Blues Away, Count Basie, Essential Count Basie (Vol. 3), don byas ts

(Ad Lib) Medium Dance, Fred Astaire, A Night Out with Verve (Dancing), oscar peterson

Jazz Me Blues, Bix Beiderbecke, The Ultimate Jazz Archive - Bix Beiderbecke, adrian rollini bass sax

Singin' The Blues, Bix Beiderbecke, The Ultimate Jazz Archive - Bix Beiderbecke, frankie trumbauer c melody sax

I Got It Bad, Hinda Hoffman, Moon And Sand

I Got It Bad, Lou Rawls, Live from an LP

Struttin' With Some Barbecue, Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong From The Original Okeh's V. 2 1927

Struttin' With Some Barbecue, Gil Evans, New Bottle Old Wine -- fabulous album, as is a companion disk, Great Jazz Standards, now both available on one CD

Hello Lola, Coleman Hawkins, Three Great Swing Saxophones, Red McKenzie kazoo, Peewee Russell cl, Coleman Hawkins ts, Glenn Miller tb, Gene Krupa d
I Found A New Baby, Lionel Hampton, Wicked Swing, hampton playing piano mallet style, oscat moore g, wesley prince b

I Found a New Baby, Swedish group, no album, hot lips page t, catlett d, clyde hart p

If I Had You, Dick Hyman, Swing Is Here

Laura, Stephane Grapelli, Menuhin And Grappelli Play "Jealousy" And Other Great Standards (Remaster)

Laura, Woody Herman, The Essence Of Woody Herman, Woody vocal, Bill Harris tb

Profoundly Blue, Charlie Christian, Hittin' On All Six, Volume #2: The Charlie Christian Revolution, Edmund Hall cl, Meade Lux Lewis celeste

Who Knows?, Duke Ellington, Piano Reflections, Wendell Marshall b, Butch Ballard d

Mumbles, Oscar Peterson Trio, Oscar Peterson Trio +1 Clark Terry

Incoherent Blues, Oscar Peterson Trio, Oscar Peterson Trio +1 Clark Terry

Slam Slam Blues, Red Norvo And His Selected Sextet, Birth Of Be-Bop, Dizzy, Bird, Flip Phillips, Slam Steward b

Audition, Shelly Manne, Man with the Golden Arm, Shorty Rogers flugelhorn, Milt Bernhart tb

Sweetheart (Waitress in a Donut Shop), Suzy Bogguss, Swing

Taking A Chance On Love, Wardell Gray Quintet, The Wardell Gray Story, Vol. 4: Farmer's Market, Shelly Manne d, Hampton Hawes p -- from a Proper Box Set of Wardell's stuff -- excellent collection, great price

Taking A Chance On Love, Renee Olstead, Renee Olstead

If I Had You, Ike Quebec, The Blue Note Swingtets

Early Autumn, Woody Herman, The Essence of WH, woody cl, stan getz ts

Early Autumn, Johnny Frigo, self-titled album

Early Autumn, Jo Stafford, You Belong to Me, bought on line

Flying Home, Illinois Jacquet, Flying Home