Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Come Dance With Me - Oscar Peterson
2. There Is No Greater Love - Dizzy Gillespie
3. As Long as I Live - Kenny Burrell
4. I Wished on the Moon - Coleman Hawkins
5. Smooth One - Junior Mance
6. On the Sunny Side of the Street - Jimmy And His Orchestra Hodges
7. Whisper Not - Anita O'Day
8. Lil' Darlin' - Joe Pass
9. Love You Madly - Monty Alexander
10. What's New? - George Benson
11. Broadway - Tal Farlow
12. You Are Too Beautiful - Sonny Rollins
13. Portrait of Jennie - Wynton Kelly
14. Fall Out - Paul Desmond, Gerry Mulligan
15. Vie en Rose - Michel Legrand
16. I Still Love Him So - Roy Eldridge

Disc 2:

1. If I Had You - Kenny Burrell
2. Once I Loved (Amor Em Paz)
3. Isn't It a Pity? - Sarah Vaughan
4. My Foolish Heart - Bill Evans
5. I Remember Clifford - Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
6. It's Nice to Be With You - Jim Hall
7. It Might as Well Be Spring - Astrud Gilberto
8. Isn't It Romantic? - Benny Carter, Benny Carter
9. When a Woman Loves a Man - Ella Fitzgerald
10. This Can't Be Love - George Shearing
11. You Go to My Head - Chet Baker
12. Autumn in New York - Tal Farlow
13. But Beautiful - Bill Evans, Bill Evans, Stan Getz
14. Agua de Beber - Antonio Carlos Jobim
15. Manhattan - Sonny Rollins

Disc 3:

1. (Ad Lib) Fast Dances - Fred Astaire
2. Party Blues - Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams
3. Sister Sadie - James Clay
4. Organ Grinder's Swing - Jimmy Smith
5. Perdido - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
6. Back Beat Boogie - Harry James & His Orchestra
7. At Last - Marlena Shaw
8. Little Girl Blue - Louis Armstrong
9. So Danço Samba (I Only Dance Samba) - Luiz Bonfá, Stan Getz
10. Shall We Dance? - Cassandra Wilson
11. Rose Room - Buddy DeFranco
12. King Porter Stomp - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
13. Taking a Chance on Love - Nicholas Payton
14. Corner Pocket - Count Basie Orchestra
15. (Ad Lib) Medium Dance - Fred Astaire

Disc 4:

1. I've Got a Crush on You - Sarah Vaughan
2. It Had to Be You - Billie Holiday
3. You're a Weaver of Dreams - John Coltrane
4. This Love of Mine - Al Hibbler
5. Misty - Don Byas
6. Invitation - Dinah Washington
7. Nearness of You - Hank Jones, Abbey Lincoln
8. Time After Time - Stéphane Grappelli
9. Imagination - Billy Eckstine
10. That's All - Harry "Sweets" Edison, Lester Young
11. I Should Care - Mel Tormé
12. 'Round Midnight - Miles Davis
13. Someone to Watch over Me - Rahsaan Roland Kirk
14. It's Easy to Remember - Johnny Hartman
15. Reaching for the Moon - Ella Fitzgerald
16. You Don't Know Me - Shirley Horn
17. Where Are You? - Ben Webster
18. There's No You - Louis Armstrong
19. Memories of You - Clifford Brown

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #81589 in Music
• Released on: 2000-10-24
• Number of discs: 4
• Format: Box set

Amazon.com
This bargain-priced four-CD set presents itself as easy, event-based listening, with the CDs individually titled "Wining," "Dining," "Dancing," and "Romancing." A glimpse at the track list and personnel, however, immediately reveals that, much more than "easy listening," it's an extraordinary collection of jazz performances culled from the Verve archives and including material from the label's classic and recent periods, as well as from subsidiary labels.

The selection has been made with remarkable thoughtfulness, pulling out tracks that may surprise even veteran listeners. John Coltrane plays "You're a Weaver of Dreams" with the Miles Davis rhythm section in a 1959 session. There's also Miles's 1958 rendition of "Round Midnight" with arranger Michel LeGrand. And there's a live Paris recording of "Whisper Not" by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Lee Morgan. When Al Hibbler sings "This Love of Mine," he's backed by the perfectly Ellingtonian horns of Johnny Hodges and Ben Webster.

"Dancing" picks up the tempo and swings with vigor, but the other volumes are almost textbooks on the art of ballad playing, with many of the greatest saxophonists, trumpeters, and vocalists represented, and a healthy sampling of pianists and guitarists as well. Sure, it functions as mood music, but there's none of the usual artificiality or manipulative effects. It's jazz, often of the highest order and filled with a spirit of timeless romance. --Stuart Broomer

Customer Reviews

This One's For Wining, Dining Dancing And Romancing
A Night Out With Verve is exactly what it's advertised to be, Wining, Dining, Dancing and Romancing. This is an excellent introduction to some of the greatest jazz music of all time. The artists represented on this collection are a virtual "who's who" of jazz giants. The highlights are far too numerous to mention, but I'll try. There's Miles Davis performing the Thelonius Monk classic 'Round Midnight, Perdido by Duke Ellington, But Beautiful by Stan Getz and Bill Evans and Isn't It Romantic by Benny Carter. There are also outstanding vocal performances such as Billie Holiday's It Had To Be You, Reaching For The Moon by the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald, Little Girl Blue by Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong and a most romantic reading of I Should Care by The Velvet Fog, Mel Torme.

Considering the budget price of this collection, the sound, the packaging and most of all the music, this is an outstanding value. Weather your jazz collection contains hundreds of albums by these great masters or you're a jazz neophite, I highly recommend this wonderful box-set. There are many many hours to savor, as you wine and dine and dance and romance.

A night out indeed!
I bought this 8 months ago after hearing a single track. I don't usually buy boxed sets, but the price was great and I took a chance.

I have been rewarded beyond all measure. This is a great buy at twice the price. This is one collection that I can play and play and play. It is not only stuffed with great music, but the selections and the way that they are arranged is nothing short of breathtakingly brilliant. A wonderful companion whether you're just listening, or wining, dining, dancing... or romancing!

The Best!!!!
I'm a die-hard Ella Fitzgerald fan, and when I heard her along with Louis Armstrong and such other greats as Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington, George Shearing, Chet Baker, Dizzy, and others, I absolutely had to buy it. Have given it as gifts on many occasions, and everyone loves it....even the youngsters ( between 25 and 40)!. Great buy, and great gift for any occasion.

E. Perry