Valentine's Day Music: Love and Love Lost SEATTLE, WA (KPLU) - We've compiled a Valentine's Day treat for you on our Web site, kplu.org. KPLU's Nick Morrison and Nick Francis have come up with a list of some of the best jazz love songs AND the best jazz songs about lost love. Nick Morrison talked with KPLU's Kirsten Kendrick about why they chose some of the songs they did.


To listen to the jazz love songs:
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18920443

To listen to the jazz lost love songs:
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18890416

5 Great Love Songs
1.Embraceable You - Sarah Vaughan - Sarah For Lovers
2: You Go To My Head - Harry Connick Jr. - Jubilation
3: You Are Too Beautiful - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
4: When I Fall In Love - Carmen McRae Sings Great American Songwriters
5: My Funny Valentine - Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine
Alternate Track:
I'm Glad There Is You - Jamie Cullum - Catching Tales

5 Great Lost Love Songs
1: Some Other Time - The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
2: You Don't Know What Love Is - Dinah Washington - Jazz Round Midnight
3: Blame It On My Youth - Jane Monheit - Come Dream With Me
4: Cry Me A River - Ella Fitzgerald - Quiet Now: Ella's Moods
5: These Foolish Things - Billie Holiday - Lady In Autumn: Best Of The Verve Years




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