SDP Jazz Note: NPR Jazz and Blues

Check out NPR's Jazz & Blues page.  It is a treasure house of contemporary and classic jazz.  If you go to this page you can listen to Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong singing Autumn in New York.  As I have been building my jazz library, I am sure I have acquired 20 or 30 versions of that number.  Jazz is really about melody.  No form of music has taken the melody more seriously, nor more frequently insulted it.  Singing runs no risk of the latter.  The contrast between Fitzgerald's perfectly smooth voice, and Armstrong's sandpapered singing is delicious.  Scroll down and you can listen to some Trane.  Life is good.