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Performer	Featured Album (or artist photo)	Performance(s) on Cafe Songbook (Click song title to visit Cafe Songbook page with performance on album and/or video.)
Patti Page (born Clara Ann Fowler, November 8, 1927, Claremore, Oklahoma, US, - died January 1, 2013, age 85, Encinitas, California, US -- pop and country singer)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	Mister and Mississippi
Charlie Parker (born Charles Parker, Jr. August 29, 1920, Kansas City, Kansas, US - died March 12, 1955, age 34, New York City -- jazz saxophonist, aka "Bird.")	Amazon \|\| iTunes	I Didn't Know What Time It Was If I Should Lose You My Heart Tells Me Oh, Lady, Be Good! Strike Up the Band
Rebecca Parris (born December 28, 1951, Newton, Massachusetts, US) -- jazz singer)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	All My Tomorrows
Nikki Parrott (b. 1970 in Australia, she is currently based in NYC) The versaltile Parrott has been a basist in a Les Paul Combo and also plays piano and ftute; however, she is most well known as a jazz vocalist.	Amazon	Baby It's Cold Outside (with Tony DeSare) It Might As Well Be Spring
Steven Pasquale (born November 18, 1976, Hershey Pennsylvania, US -- actor and singer)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	My Funny Valentine They All Laughed
Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua January 13, 1929. New Brunswick, New Jersey, US, - died May 23, 1994, age 65, Los Angeles, California US -- jazz guitarist)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	All the Things You Are I Didn't Know What Time It Was (accompanying Sarah Vaughan) My Old Flame (with Ella Fitzgerald) Stormy Weather (with Ella Fitzgerald) You Turned the Tables on Me (with Ella Fitzgerald) You're Mine, You (accompanying Carmen McRae) You'll Never Know
Mandy Patinkin (born Mandel Bruce Patinkin, November 30, 1952, Chicago, Illinois, US -- actor and singer)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	I'm Always Chasing Rainbows Swanee Younger than Springtime Where or When
Les Paul (born Lester William Polsfuss, June 9, 1915, Waukesha, WI US - died: August 12, 2009, White Plains, NY US)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me
Dave Pell Octet (Dave Pell born David Pell born: February 26, 1925, Brooklyn, New York -- American jazz saxophonist and bandleader best known for leading a cool jazz octet in the 1950s)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	When I Take My Sugar to Tea
Tivon Pennicott (b. December 27, 1985, Marietta Georgia, US, American jazz tenor saxophonist, singer and quintet leader)	Amazon	Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
Ken Peplowski (born May 23, 1959, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. -- jazz clarinetist and saxophonist)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive (accompanying Susannah McCorkle) Hit the Road to Dreamland (accompanying Susannah McCorkle) My Funny Valentine (with his New York Trio) The Lady Is a Tramp (accompanying Susannah McCorkle) Somebody Loves Me (with Jessica Molaskey) You'll Never Know (accompanying John Pizzarelli)
Houston Person (born November 10, 1934, Florence, South Carolina, US, American jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	All My Tomorrows Nice 'N' Easy
Oscar Peterson (born Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, August 15, 1925, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - died December 23, 2007, age 82, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada -- jazz pianist, also composer and singer)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive All the Things You Are (with his trio) Blues in the Night (with Louis Armstrong) Fascinating Rhythm (with Fred Astaire and the Jazz at the Philharmonic All Stars) A Fine Romance (accompanying Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald) The Folks Who Live on the Hill (with Stephane Grappelli) How Long Has This Been Going On? I'm Building up to an Awful Letdown (with Fred Astaire) The Lady Is a Tramp Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (accompanying Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald; also with Fred Astaire) Oh, Lady, Be Good! (with Fred Astaire and The Jazz at the Philharmonic All-Stars) 'S Wonderful Someone To Watch Over Me Strike Up the Band These Foolish Things (his trio with Ella Fitzgerald; also with Stan Getz) They All Laughed (with Fred Astaire; with his trio; and his trio with Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald) They Can't Take That Away from Me (with Fred Astarie; his trio with Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald The Way You Look Tonight (accompanying Fred Astaire) Why Must We Always Be Dreaming? (with Ella Fitzgerald) You'll Never Know
Madeleine Peyroux (born January 1, 1974, Athens, Georgia US -- singer and guitarist)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	I Live My Love The Way You Look Tonight (with William Galison)
Walter Pidgeon (born Walter Davis Pidgeon, September 23 1897, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada - died September 25, 1984, age 87, Santa Monica, California, US -- actor, also a singer)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	What'll I do?
The Pied Pipers (American vocal group active from 1930s forward - members have included Jo Stafford and Mel Tormé)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive (with Johnn Mercer) Blues in the Night (with Ella Mae Morse; with Jo Stafford)
Bucky Pizzarelli (born John Paul Pizzarelli, January 9, 1926, Paterson, New Jersey, US -- jazz guitarist nicknamed "Bucky")	Amazon \|\| iTunes	All the Things You Are (accompanying Carmen McRae) A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (with The Swing Brothers and the Harry Allen New York Sextet) In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening (with Margaret Whiting) Oh, Lady, Be Good! Right as the Rain (accompanying, with others, Jessica Molaskey) A Sleepin' Bee (with John Pizzarelli) The Way You Look Tonight (accompanying, with others, Jessica Molaskey) When I Take My Sugar to Tea (with Konrad Paszkudzki, Martin Pizzarelli, Ricardo Baldacci) Will You Still Be Mine (with his quartet) You'll Never Know (accompanying John Pizzarelli) You're Mine, You (accompanying Carmen McRae) You're Nearer with New York Swing
John Pizzarelli (born John Paul Pizzarelli, Jr., April 6, 1960, Paterson, New Jersey, US -- jazz guitarist and singer, also a songwriter)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive (accompnying Paul McCartney) After You've Gone (with his trio) I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan (with Aaron Weinstein) I Wanna Be Around It's Only a Paper Moon (two performances) Johnny One-Note The Lady Is a Tramp Nice 'n' Easy Oh, Lady, Be Good! September in the Rain (with George Shearing) A Sleepin' Bee (with Bucky Pizzarelli) They Can't Take That Away from Me (at Birdland; and with Jane Monheit) The Way You Look Tonight (with Bucky Pizzarelli) You'll Never Know
Janet Planet (jazz singer)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	A Sleepin' Bee
The Platters (rhythm and blues, and rock and roll vocal group active 1954 to 1970 as originally constituted)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	My Old Flame Once in a While Sentimental Journey
Bud Powell (Born: September 27, 1924, Harlem, New York City, NY Died: July 31, 1966, New York City Jazz pianist )		April in Paris
Eleanor Powell (born Eleanor Torrey Powell, November 21, 1912, Springfield, Massachusetts, US - died February 11, 1982 (age 69) Beverly Hills, California, US -- dancer and actress)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	Fascinating Rhythm You Are My Lucky Star (two performances, sing and dancing)
Dick Powell (born Richard Ewing Powell November 14, 1904, Mountain View, Arkansas, US - died January 2, 1963, age 58, West Los Angeles, California, -- actor, singer, producer, director)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	Hit the Road to Dreamland (with Mary Martin and The Golden Gate Quartette) I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm Somebody Loves Me Too Many Tears (Harry warren page)e
Elvis Presley		Witchcraft (with Frank Sinatra)
Andre Previn (now named André George Previn, born Andreas Ludwig Priwin, April 6, 1929, Berlin, Germany -- pianist, conductor, composer)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	April in Paris All the Things You Are (with Ray Brown and Joe Pass; and with Sylvia McNair) Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered Come Rain or Come Shine Right as the Rain (with Sylvia McNair and David Finck) This Time the Dream's on Me (with Sylvia McNair and David Finck) Wait Till You See Her (with Doris Day) You'll Never Know (conducting for Ella Fitzgerald)
Ruth Price (born April 27, 1938, Phoenixville, Pensylvania, US -- jazz singer and owner of the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	All I Do Is Dream of You (with Shelly Manne and His Men)
Arthur Prysock (born January 1, 1924, Spartanburg, South Carolina US - died June 21, 1997, age 73, Hamilton, Bermuda -- jazz singer)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	I Could Write a Book (with Count Basie)
The Puppini Sisters (jazz and pop close harmony vocal trio originating in London, 2004)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

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