"I remember the session for that record" "It seemed like Miles had all the hot young cats for that one" "Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea Joe Zawinul, Dave Holland and Tony Williams" "It was quite a night" "Now, here's something that we've been working on" "Call It '94" "It's making us all feel very excited about being here" "She looks straight ahead not at he" "Tall and tanned and young and lovely" "The girl from lpanema goes walking" "And when she passes he smiles but she doesn't see" "Latin music has long been an important part of the jazz lexicon" "But it wasn't until the 60's when Stan Getz brought it into the American mainstream" "That Brazilian music became a major influence" "Of course nothing brought Stan Getz more fame than his fusion ofjazz and samba" "The quiet sensuality of his tenor sax" "The naive charm of Astrud Gilberto's voice" "The unique rhythms of Joao Gilberto's guitar" "And of course the song writing of genius Antonio Carlos Jobim" "What a shining moment" "That was a combination that made the bossa nova hard to beat" "With the classic "The Girl from lpanema"" "here is the composer himself Antonio Carlos Jobim" "The Girl from lpanema" "Olha que coisa mais linda mais cheia de graça" "E ela menina que vem que passa" "Num doce balanço caminho do mar" "Moça do corpo dourado do sol de Ipanema" "O seu balançado e mais que um poema" "E a coisa mais linda que eu ja vi passar" "Ah, porque estou tao sozinho" "Ah, porque tudo e tao triste" "Ah, a beleza que existe" "A beleza que nao e so minha" "Que tambem passa sozinha" "Ah, se ela soubesse que quando ela passa" "O mundo sorrindo se enche de graça" "E fica mais lindo por causa do amor" "Por causa do amor" "Por causa do amor" "Oh, but I watch her so sadly" "How can I tell her I love her?" "Yes, I would give my heart gladly" "But each day when she passes through the sea" "She looks straight ahead not at me" "Tall, tanned, young, lovely" "The girl from lpanema goes walking" "And when she passes I smile but she doesn't see" "No, she doesn't see" "She just doesn't see" "I'd like to introduce my friend Pat Metheny" "Hey Pat" "Welcome" "How Insensitive" "How insensitive" "I must have seemed" "When she told me so sincerely" "How unmoved and cold" "I must have seemed" "When she told me so sincerely" "Why she must have asked" "Did I just turn and stare in icy silence" "What was I to say" "What can you say" "When a love affair is over" "Now she's gone away" "And I'm alone" "With a memory of her last look" "Vague and drawn and sad" "I see it still" "All her heartbreak in that last look" "How she must have asked" "Could I just turn and stare in icy silence" "What was I to do" "What can one do" "When a love affair is over" "Now I'd like to introduce you to my great friend" "Joe Henderson" "Desafinado" "When I try to sing" "You say I'm off key" "Why can't you see how much this hurts me" "With your perfect beauty and your perfect pitch" "You're a perfect terror" "When I come around must you always put me down" "When he liked something" "He said: "He had eyes on him, big eyes"" "Friends, whether they were male or female, were called lady" "Policemen were Bing and Bob or Bob Crosbys" "As he did with the verbal vernacular" "Lester Young developed his own language on tenor saxophone" "Even though he could swing as much as anyone" "His light, airy playing his floating attack, and imperial sound" "Was the real birth of the cool" "From 1944 that was Lester Young and the energetic cat" "Harry "Sweets" Edison" "And Barney Kessel stretching out on Jammin' the Blues" "It was back in LA in the early 1940's that Norman Granz attended his first jam session" "And became determined to present what he had experienced to a wider audience" "In 1944, Granz did just that" "Taking the jam out of the club and putting it on the concert stage" "As Jazz at the Philharmonic" "The recordings of those concert jams paved the way for Verve Records" "By the way, those Jazz at the Phil shows, which featured such artists as Benny Carter, Roy Eldridge Coleman Hawkins" "Johnny Hodges, Flip Phillips and Ben Webster were not just musically and historically important" "It was sociologically significant as well" "Because Granz insisted that both his audiences and his bandstands were integrated" "So in the spirit of those great old jam sessions we are gonna have one of our own" "Here are Roy Hargrove, Jackie McLean" "Pat Metheny, Stephen Scott," "Christian McBride, and Al Foster jamming on Sonny Stitt's" ""The Eternal Triangle"" "The Eternal Triangle" "As the years go by the legend grows ever larger" "Just in fact this year a retrospective of a work on Verve won three Grammy Awards" "We all know her tragic story and tonight we celebrate her incredible gift" "The way her voice can still illuminate the dark corners of the human soul" "We remember her sound and that she is very simply" "One of the most moving and haunting singers of all time" "Hush now, don't explain" "I know you raised cain" "But I'm glad" "Your back" "Don't explain" "You know that I love you" "And what love endures" "All my thoughts are of you" "For I'm so completely yours" "Hush now, don't explain" "You're my joy and pain" "My life's yours, love" "Don't explain" "So now about to Lady Day" "Here to perform "I Must Have That Man" is another lady who like Billie Holiday is a great storyteller" "Her dramatic persuasive delivery" "Makes her one of the most original singers of her time" "With Charlie Haden on Bass Al Foster on drums" "Hank Jones on piano" "And a trombone solo from the all-time-great J. J. Johnson" "Here is the wonderful Miss Abbey Lincoln" "I Must Have That Man" "Don't want my mother" "Don't need a friend" "My heart is aching it won't ever mend" "I ain't much caring' just how it will end" "But I must have that man" "I'm like an oven that's cryin' for heat" "He treats me awful each time we meet" "It's just unlawful how he can cheat" "But I must have that man" "He's hot as Hades a lady's not safe in his arms" "When she's kissed" "And I'm afraid he's cooled off" "And maybe I'm ruled off his list" "I'll never be missed" "I need that person much worse'n just bad" "I'm half alive and he is drivin' me mad" "He's only human and he can't be had" "And I must have that man" "He's hot as Hades a lady's not safe in his arms" "When she's kissed" "And I'm afraid he's cooled off" "And maybe I'm ruled off his list" "I'll never be missed" "I need that person much worse'n just bad" "I'm half alive and he is drivin' me mad" "He's only human and he can't be had" "And I will have that man" "The voice as an instrument" "When Miss Ella Fitzgerald swung and scatted like a horn" "It was little doubt that she was as much a master of her own sound as any soloist on the bandstand" "Shut your mouth go away" "Shut your mouth go away" "I have to admit I've learned more than a few things from listening to Ella's records" "What an extraordinary range what versatility, what an expressive voice" "Now to pay tribute to the First Lady of Song is an artist" "Who's one of the most rhythmically dazzling vocalists ever" "And one of the music's most astute talent scats" "Here is the great Betty Carter" "How High The Moon" "Somewhere there's music" "How faint the tune" "Somewhere there's heaven" "How high the moon" "There is no moon above when love is far away, too" "If it is true that you love me and I love you" "Somewhere there's music" "That's where you are" "Somewhere there's heaven" "How near, how far" "The darkest night will shine" "If love will come to me soon" "And if you will" "Be still my heart" "How high" "How high the moon" "How high" "The darkest night will shine" "If love will come to me soon" "I know you will" "Be still my heart" "Be still my heart how high the moon" "To pay tribute to Oscar Peterson" "Here are Kenny Washington on drums" "Christian McBride on bass" "And pianist Peter Delano with "Tangerine"" "Tangerine" "On behave of all the legendary musicians who made the music come alive and the talented artists who continue to contribute to the great jazz tradition" "Thank you for being part of our celebration" "Of course no jazz concert concludes with a speech" "No" "So we end as Jazz at the Philharmonic began with an all-star jam session" "The musical selection a song that speaks to very heart ofjazz" "Here is a Charlie Parker classic "Now's The Time"" "Now's The Time"