You've just embarked on a long-anticipated summer road trip. You're filled with joy and excitement — until you fill your gas tank and are overcome with horror and grief. Here's hoping you brought this road-ready jazz mix to get back into the right frame of mind.
Read and hear more entries in the Road Trip: Songs to Drive By series.
This list is also in the Take Five: A Weekly Jazz Sampler series.
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— Cover for Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus
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![Cover for Very Best of Nat King Cole [Capitol]](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/0145b5d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/200x123+0+38/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fmusic%2Ffeatures%2F2008%2F06%2Fcole200-be0ce1bf37384ffd805c1d6713ab6d3f7a2d5f3d.jpg)
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— Cover for Very Best of Nat King Cole [Capitol]
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— Wes Montgomery
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— Terri Thornton
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— Arnett Cobb
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