Volume 97: Standards With Strings (with Free Audio CD): 97

When Charlie Parker made his famous with strings recordings, jazz musicians realized the potential of lushly orchestrated strings to enhance their own creativity. Legendary players soon followed suit, making a with strings album almost an essential rite of passage. Here are 10 beautiful standards arranged by jazz great and award-winning arranger Lennie Niehaus. Rhythm Section: Steve Allee (p); Tyrone Wheeler (b); Steve Davis (d); Peter McHugh (Violins); Alan Oldfield (Synth Strings). Titles: I Cover the Waterfront * Fools Rush In * You Go to My Head * September in the Rain * You're My Everything * You and the Night and the Music * Autumn in New York * When Your Lover Has Gone * Namely You * Lover, Come Back to Me.