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Full title: Get Happy: The Harold Arlen Centennial Celebration.The Great American Songbook includes work by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, and Irving Berlin, to name a few. However, Harold Arlen may be the jazziest of all these composers. Therefore, a jazzy tribute to this master tunesmith is only fitting.Billie Holiday's downtrodden version of "Stormy Weather" is simply a classic; it's hard to imagine any other singer bringing greater meaning to this lyric or greater inflection to this...

Notes: Of all the classic composers in the American songbook, not even George Gershwin channeled the blues and jazz idioms like Harold Arlen. The Buffalo native and son of a Jewish cantor not only wrote that quintessential anthem of the Great Plains optimist ("Over the Rainbow"), but also many plaintive urban laments like "Stormy Weather" and "Blues in the Night." Verve celebrated the centennial of Arlen's birth (February 15, 1905) with a compilation that gathered much of the best jazz vocal Arlen...