Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Blues - Nat King Cole, , Illinois Jacquet, J.J. Johnson, Les Paul
2. Oh, Lady Be Good - Charlie Parker, Lester Young
3. I've Found a New Baby - Lester Young
4. Trav'lin' Light - Billie Holiday
5. Repetition - Charlie Parker
6. Picasso - Coleman Hawkins
7. Tanga - Machito & His Afro-Cubans
8. Celia - Bud Powell
9. Just Friends - Charlie Parker
10. Bloomdido - Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker
11. Jeep's Blues - Johnny Hodges
12. Drum Boogie - Gene Krupa Trio
13. Port of Rico - Illinois Jacquet
14. Tenderly - Oscar Peterson Trio
15. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie
16. Echoes of Harlem - Roy Eldridge

Disc 2:

1. Tea for Two - Art Tatum
2. Manteca Theme - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
3. My One and Only Love - Benny Carter, Benny Carter
4. Flying Home - Lionel Hampton
5. Lemonaid 21 - Flip Phillips
6. Every Day I Have the Blues - Count Basie Orchestra, Joe Williams
7. April in Paris - Count Basie Orchestra
8. Honeysuckle Rose - Anita O'Day
9. All of Me - Teddy Wilson, Lester Young
10. Just One of Those Things - Ella Fitzgerald
11. Lady Sings the Blues - Billie Holiday
12. Swinging on a Star - Oscar Peterson Trio
13. Cookin' the Blues - Buddy DeFranco
14. They Can't Take That Away from Me - Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald
15. Rosita - Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster
16. I Know That You Know - Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt

Disc 3:

1. Crazy Rhythm - Stan Getz, J.J. Johnson
2. Surrey With the Fringe on Top - Blossom Dearie
3. Stompy Jones - Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges
4. I Can't Give You Anything But Love - Sonny Stitt
5. Chelsea Bridge - Gerry Mulligan, Ben Webster
6. Mack the Knife - Ella Fitzgerald
7. Too Close for Comfort - Marty Paich, Mel Torm�
8. In the Mornings Out There - Jimmy Giuffre 3
9. I'm Gonna Go Fishin' - Gerry Mulligan & the Concert Jazz Band
10. Night Rider - Stan Getz
11. I Remember You - Lee Konitz
12. Something's Coming - Oscar Peterson Trio
13. Desafinado - Charlie Byrd, Stan Getz
14. Walk on the Wild Side - Jimmy Smith

Disc 4:

1. 'Round Midnight - Bill Evans
2. Girl from Ipanema - Stan Getz, Jo�o Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim
3. Soul Sauce (Guachi Guaro) - Cal Tjader
4. Last Night When We Were Young - Kenny Burrell
5. If You Could See Me Now - Wynton Kelly Trio, Wes Montgomery
6. Night Train - Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Smith
7. Every Night - Joe Williams
8. Good Life - Betty Carter
9. You Won't Forget Me - Shirley Horn
10. Bird Alone - Stan Getz, Abbey Lincoln
11. Johnny Come Lately - Joe Henderson
12. Hello My Lovely - Charlie Haden

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #132972 in Music
• Released on: 1994-03-22
• Number of discs: 4
• Format: Box set

Customer Reviews

Why Granz deserves his own jazz club in Heaven
For his tireless, effective, and classy promotion of first-rate musicians, Norma Granz must surely be one of the great cultural influences of our century, even if no one but jazz types know of him. More admirable (because courageous and selfless)is that he absolutely forbade racial segregation in his audiences and for his musicians. Granz was famous for making sure that ALL his musicians received first-class treatment, without distinction.

And what first-class music his people made! From the "Jazz at the Philharmonic" series to his long tenure with Verve (which he founded), Granz brought together the very, very best jazz musicians, under the best conditions, and let them play what moved them.

This collection is a fine, fine introduction to what Granz accomplished--and extraordinarily fun to hear.

If you're looking for a great intro to jazz, you could do worse than to start here. (For pedagogical purposes, Ken Burns' five-CD set, "The Story of America's Music," is more comprehensive, and it has much to commend it. Listening to that set, though, requires an interest in being educated, as much as an interest in listening to jazz--some of the discs are jarringly uneven in tone, mood, style, and sound quality.)

50 years of Jazz Bliss
What is jazz? Dixieland? Big-band? Kenny G? (Perish the thought!
Forgive me for such heresy!)

I write this review about halfway
through the stunning Ken Burns "Jazz" chronicle on PBS
(January 2001) - I felt compelled to get this set out for my
late-night listening, and am glad I did!

This 4-CD set contains
almost 5 hours of great jazz performances by the giants - Louis
Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz,
Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson... well, you can read the
list.

Sound quality is awesome, especially considering that some of
these recordings are over 50 years old. Verve obviously wanted this
to be a quality product, to commemmorate their golden anniversary.
And the performances - if you have NOT heard them before, you will be
alternately slack-jawed with amazement and grinnin' like a possum
eatin' a sweet potato!

Jazz aficionados will probably already have
most of this material - none of it is new or unissued, all of it is
classic jazz. If you're like me - you've had some exposure to jazz
and want to add some good stuff to your collection - you can't go
wrong with this set. If you get picked to be on Survivor Island, you
just might want to take it with you... I would!

THIS IS A MUST FOR YOUR COLLECTION
I scored this at a used "rock&roll shop for 20 bucks. Little did they no the value. This is totally awesome. The best part is the "assortedness" of it. I was leary of sound quality, but it is very good. The version of Dizzy's "Manteca" is almost worth the price. The only person missing is Kenton, but as we know, he wasn't a verve man. BUy it, its worth it.