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Exercise 1 - ‘Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out’ – Bessie Smith

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Exercise 2 - ‘If I Let You Get Away With It Once’ – Ma Rainey / Sidney Bechet

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Exercise 3 - ‘Oh! Daddy Blues’ – William Russell & Ed Herbert [1924] / Sung by Nellie Hite

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Exercise 4 - ‘Somebody Loves Me’ – Gershwin, performed by Meat Loaf and Larry Adler

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Exercise 5 - ‘You’re the Cream in My Coffee’ – B. G. De Sylva, Lew Brown and Ra Henderson, sung by Ruth Etting [sung in A flat]

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Exercise 6 - ‘Honeysuckle Rose’ as sung by Anita O’Day in B flat on the recording

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Exercise 7 - ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’’ – Fats Waller

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Exercise 8 - ‘Shine on Harvest Moon’ by Ruth Etting / Lyric by Jack Northworth / Music by Nora Bayes

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Exercise 9 - ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’ – Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach

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Exercise 10 - ‘Moonlight Serenade’ – Glen Miller

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Exercise 11 - ‘As Time Goes By’ – Billie Holiday / Herman Hupfeld / 1931 / Redwood Music Ltd, NW1

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Exercise 12 - ‘This Joint is Jumpin’’ – Fats Waller

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