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(Instructional book with play-a-long CD) When Charlie Parker made his famous "with strings" recordings, jazz musicians everywhere realized the potential of lushly orchestrated strings to enhance their creativity. Many legendary players followed suit, making a "with strings" album an essential rite of passage. Here are 10 beautiful standards arranged by jazz great Lennie Niehaus, including "You're My Everything," "When Your Lover Has Gone," "September in the Rain," "Fools Rush In," "Autumn in New York" and others.