Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 280 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. The only singer to record with John Coltrane, Hartman was mostly known only to true jazz lovers during his lifetime. Here’s her “Early Autumn”:x YouTube VideoContinuing with Ella, she is joined by Louis Armstrong for this rendition of “Autumn in New York” which they recorded in July 1957. Here’s Charles “Yardbird” Parker’s lush interpretation with strings:x YouTube VideoContinuing with autumn standards, a songwriter I wasn’t familiar with was Henry Nemo. Here’s “September Song”:x YouTube VideoThe final autumn tune I’ll play today is probably the most widely recorded of them all: “Autumn Leaves.” Tom Schnabel at KCRW Los Angeles wrote:“Autumn Leaves“ has been covered many times by different singers.