If a jazz enthusiast was ever actually to be stranded on the fabled desert island with the choice of only one disc then this boxset (stretching the definition a bit) is the obvious choice, on several counts: for quality, it’s a Blue Note compilation so the reproduction will be first rate: for historical breadth, ranging from Sidney Bechet to Norah Jones (plus a few oddities but even they are interesting): for variety, with each of the six CDs representing different styles – classic vocals, swing bands, Latin jazz, post-bop cool sounds, ballads and legends: for price, at barely more than the cost of a double CD it’s a steal.
Mind you, you don’t have to be on a desert island to enjoy a ton of superb jazz, this one would do just as well.
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Track Listing :
Disc 1 - I Left My Heart In San Francisco - Julie London; Something Cool (Mono) - June Christy; My Funny Valentine (Vocal) - Chet Baker; Misty Blue - Ella Fitzgerald; Darn That Dream - Nancy Wilson; Autumn In New York - Jo Stafford; April In Paris - Dinah Shore; Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear From Me - Abbey Lincoln; Day In - Day Out - Mark Murphy; It Had To Be You - Dinah Shore With Andre Previn; Angel Eyes - Jack Jones; The Man I Love - Carmen McRae; It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Annie Ross With The Gerry Mulligan Quartet; Here's That Rainy Day - Sue Raney; Stars Fell On Alabama; Blue Moon (Live) - Billie Holiday; A Foggy Day - Dakota Staton; Exactly Like You - Dianne Reeves; I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues - Lou Rawls; Something to Live For - Lena Horne.
Disc 2 - For Dancers Only - Billy May; Stompin' At The Savoy – Benny Goodman; Leap Frog - Les Brown; Satin Doll - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra; Let's Dance - Benny Goodman; T'Ain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It) - Billy May; Opus No. 1 - Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra; Intermission Riff - Stan Kenton & His Orchestra; Sleep - Woody Herman; Jumpin' At The Woodside - Benny Goodman; Harlem Air Shaft - Duke Ellington Trio; I'm Beginning To See The Light - Harry James & His Orchestra; A Good Man Is Hard To Find - Les Brown; Annie Laurie (Jimmie Lunceford Version) - Billy May; The Peanut Vendor - Stan Kenton; Come And Get It - Glen Gray; Margie (Jimmie Lunceford Version) - Billy May; I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm - Les Brown; Apollo Jumps - Glen Gray; Sing, Sing, Sing (Parts 1 & 2) (Live) - Benny Goodman.
Disc 3 - Machito -Stan Kenton; Jarbero - Tadd Dameron; Tin Tin Deo - James Moody And His Bop Men With Art Blakey; Basheer's Dream - Kenny Dorham; Congalegra - Horace Parlan; Mambo Inn - Grant Green; Paco - Gerald Wilson; Agua Dulce (Sweetwater) - The Jazz Crusaders; Favela - Clare Fischer; I'm On My Way – Candido; Oye Como Va - Bobby Hutcherson; Caravan - Chucho Valdes; Contagio - Gonzalo Rubalcaba; Dance Of Denial - Ray Barretto And New World Spirit; The Time Is Now - Eliane Elias.
Disc 4 - At Last - Lou Rawls/Dianne Reeves; Makin' Whoopee - The Three Sounds; Namely You - Sonny Rollins; Time After Time - Cassandra Wilson; Infant Eyes - Wayne Shorter; In The Winelight - Kurt Elling; Cantaloupe Island - Herbie Hancock; More Than This - Charlie Hunter Featuring Norah Jones; Beatrice (Live) - Joe Henderson; Lazy Afternoon - Jackie Allen; I've Got The World On A String - Joe Lovano; Make It Go Away - Holly Cole; Deja - Jacky Terrasson; Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin.
Disc 5 - Someone To Watch Over Me - Coleman Hawkins; Easy Living - Clifford Brown; It Never Entered My Mind - Miles Davis Quartet; Violets For Your Furs - Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims; Moonglow (Live) - Benny Goodman; Like Someone In Love - George Shearing; Stairway To The Stars - Bill Evans; Dancing In The Dark - Cannonball Adderley; I'm A Fool To Want You -
Dexter Gordon; Yesterdays - Stan Kenton; The Good Life - Hank Mobley; God Bless The Child - Stanley Turrentine; Nature Boy - Ike Quebec; Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (Live) - Zoot Sims; Laura - Joe Lovano.
Disc 6 - Boogie Woogie Stomp - Albert Ammons; Summertime - Sidney Bechet; Chicago Flyer - Meade "Lux" Lewis; Profoundly Blue - Edmond Hall; Topsy - Ike Quebec; Blues For Clarinets - Jimmy Hamilton; Lop-Pow - Babs Gonzales; Our Delight - Tadd Dameron; Boperation - Fats Navarro; 'Round Midnight - Thelonious Monk; Bouncin' With Bud - Bud Powell; Born To Be Blue - Wynton Kelly; Bags' Groove - Milt Jackson; Safari - Horace Silver; Carvin' The Rock - Clifford Brown; Lady Sings The Blues - Herbie Nichols.
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