Calling all Aficionados!!
I just received this from Amazon today. An 8 CD set titled "The 100 Best Jazz Tunes Of The 1950's" Someone posted the track listings and I have re-posted them below.
The song lineup is beyond criticism. The only possible concern could be the sound quality. I have only listened to the first CD and the Sound Quality was top notch.
Nice packaging. Thick Booklet with excellent pictures and info about the music and artists on each CD. Each CD is in a cardborad case, like a LP case, with an aboslutley wonderful picture of a Jazz great on the outer cover. That alone, is worth the asking price.
How much is that price? $15.77
I am sure you all have some and maybe most of these, but altogether with pics, booklet, and for less than 20 dollars??? How can a body refuse or resist. All this magic for less that a tenth of the price of a half-way decent 'high-end' hi-fi fuse!!! Christmas is coming up. Jazz lovers on your list??
Check out the play list. Did I mention the pictures??? Of course the Pictures on the first three CD covers were Bird, Miles then Trane.
According to the liner notes, medics were on hand for the Brubeck stuff. :)
Cheers
And here is the track list:
CD 1:
Bloomdido - Charlie Parker
Subconscious Lee - Lee Konitz
Bouncing with Bud - Bud Powell
My Funny Valentine - Gerry Mulligan
The Surrey with the Fringe on Top - Ahmad Jamal
Au Private - Charlie Parker
Straight No Chaser - Thelonious Monk
Lullaby of Birdland - George Shearing
Almost Like Being in Love - Lester Young
Black Coffee - Peggy Lee
Nuages - Django Reinhardt
Django - Modern Jazz Quartet
Walkin' - Miles Davis
Caravan - Dizzy Gillespie
If There's Someone Lovelier than You - Tal Farlow
On the Sunny Side of the Street - Johnny Hodges
Lover Man - Sarah Vaughan
Joy Spring - Clifford Brown
CD 2:
Doodlin' - Horace Silver
Confirmation - Dexter Gordon
Afrodisia - Kenny Dorham
New Rhumba - Ahmad Jamal
Round Midnight - Miles Davis
Misty - Errol Garner
St. Thomas - Sonny Rollins
Blue Monk - Thelonious Monk
The Champ - Jimmy Smith
I Was Doing All Right - Carmen McRae
Avila and Tequila - Hank Mobley
Guarachi Guaro - Cal Tjader
April in Paris - Coleman Hawkins
Route 66 - Nat King Cole
Have You Met Miss Jones - Art Tatum & Ben Webster
CD 3:
Senor Blues - Horace Silver
I Remember Clifford - Lee Morgan
Mack the Knife - Louis Armstrong
The Kid from Red Bank - Count Basie
The Maids of Cadiz - Miles Davis
Blue Train - John Coltrane
Funk in a Deep Freeze - Hank Mobley
I Want to Be Happy - Stan Getz
Birk's Works - Dizzy Gillepsie
They Say It's Spring - Blossom Dearie
Russian Lullaby - John Coltrane
Well You Needn't - Thelonious Monk
One O'clock Jump - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
CD 4:
Line for Lyons - Gerry Mulligan
Playful Flute - Yusef Lateef
Billie's Bounce - Red Garland
Come Fly with Me - Frank Sinatra
Haitian Fight Song - Charles Mingus
Soulville - Ben Webster
Dial S for Sonny - Sonny Clark
I'll Close my Eyes - Kenny Burrell
`S'Wonderful/They Can't Take That Away from Me - Anita O'Day
You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To - Art Pepper
Farmer's Market - Art Farmer
Landslide - Curtis Counce Group
CD 5:
Whisper Not - Benny Golson
My Baby Just Cares for Me - Nina Simone
Stockholm Sweetnin' - Quincy Jones
Dawn Ray - Ray Charles
Dimineundo and Crescendo in Blue - Duke Ellington
Poinciana - Ahmad Jamal Trio
Summertime - Louis Armstrong
Milestones - Miles Davis
Way Out West - Sonny Rollins
Autumn Leaves - Cannonball Adderley
CD 6:
Moanin' - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Hip Strut - Jackie McLean
Do It the Hard Way - Chet Baker
Cherokee - Johnny Griffin
Let's Face the Music & Dance - Ella Fitzgerald
Ginza Samba - Cal Tjader
In the Wee Small Hours - Ben Webster
You've Changed - Billie Holiday
The Night We Called It a Day - Chris Connor
Along Came Betty - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Cheek to Cheek - Ella Fitzgerald
Peace Piece - Bill Evans
It Ain't Necessarily So - Oscar Peterson
CD 7:
Cool Struttin' - Sonny Clark
The Sermon - Jimmy Smith
Here I Am - Donald Byrd
Let the Good Times Roll - Ray Charles
Better Git It in Your Soul - Charles Mingus
Manhattan - George Russell
What a Diff'rence a Day Made - Dinah Washington
The End of a Love Affair - Wes Montgomery
Polka Dots and Moonbeams - Chet Baker
CD 8:
So What - Miles Davis
Lonely Woman - Ornette Coleman
Take Five - Dave Brubeck
Keep It Moving - Wynton Kelly
Ramblin' - Ornette Coleman
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Charles Mingus
Blue in Green - Bill Evans
Naima - John Coltrane
Blue Ronda a la Turk - Dave Brubeck
Giant Steps - John Coltrane
