Portraits of summer by Ray Charles, Vivaldi, Gershwin, Janis Joplin, Luciano Pavarotti, Sting and a few others for an hour of superb music....

Songs, ballads and poetry from Ovid to Tom Waits that tell stories for the long hot summer days and nights of July....

Music of the little known Etta Jones with a mix of Huston Person her co-creator, and the artistry of recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder....

A brief–all too brief–sampling from the finest years in jazz....