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Track Listings 1. 'Round Midnight - Charles Brown 2. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most - Houston Person/Ron Carter 3. Everything Must Change - David 'Fathead' Newman/Marcus Belgrave/Cedar Walton/Buster Williams/Louis Hayes 4. A Tribute To A Rose - Jimmy Ponder 5. Blue In Green - Wallace Roney/Gary Thomas/Mulgrew Miller/Charnett Moffett/Tony Williams 6. Talk of The Town - Houston Person/Stan Hope/Buster Williams/Grady Tate 7. Ruby My Dear - Hank Jones/George Duviver/Ben Riley 8. I Can't Get Started - Warren Vache/Richard Wyands/Michael Moore/Billy Hart 9. My Ideal - Sonny Criss/Dolo Coker/Larry Gales/Jimmie Smith 10. St. Louis Blues - Johnny Lytle/Melvin Sparks/David Braham/Peter Marlin Weiss/Greg Bandy 11. Imagination - Woody Show/Kirk Lightsey/Steve Turre/Ray Drummond/Carl Allen The thematic collections of mood music issued by 32Jazz are drawn from fine jazz records of the past few decades, and they often include performances of serene beauty. Jazz for a Rainy Afternoon tends toward moody, minor-key tunes, some of them touched by an inner luminosity. Pianists Charles Brown and Hank Jones take very different approaches to Thelonious Monk's best known ballads--"Round Midnight" and "Ruby My Dear"--while there's a subtle, burnished glory in the sounds of trumpeters Wallace Roney, Warren Vache, and Woody Shaw. Guitarist Jimmy Ponder's solo version of "Tribute to a Rose" has a special intimacy, and saxophonist Houston Person and bassist Ron Carter have a thoughtful musical conversation on "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most." --Adam Rains