VA - Blue Berlin: Blue Note Plays the Music of Irving Berlin (1992)

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Title: Blue Berlin: Blue Note Plays the Music of Irving Berlin
Year Of Release: 1992
Label: Blue Note
Genre: Soul-Jazz, Cool, Hard Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue,log)
Total Time: 01:02:38
Total Size: 290 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Jackie McLean - Let's Face the Music and Dance (4:51)
02. Horace Parlan - The Song Has Ended (5:55)
03. Peggy Lee - Maybe It's Because I Love You Too Much (2:03)
04. Lou Donaldson - Cheek to Cheek (3:04)
05. Elmo Hope - It's a Lovely Day Today (2:48)
06. Lee Morgan - Who Do You Love, I Hope (5:01)
07. Miles Davis - How Deep Is the Ocean (4:40)
08. Art Tatum - Blue Skies (2:54)
09. Jutta Hipp - Blue Skies (2:54)
10. Hank Mobley - Remember (5:42)
11. Stan Kenton - Say It Isn't So (2:35)
12. Bud Shank & Bob Cooper - What'll I Do (2:50)
13. Eddie Davis & Joe Newman - Marie (3:59)
14. Bud Powell - The Best Thing for You (4:57)
15. Art Blakey & Paul Chambers - I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (7:12)
16. Sheila Jordan - Let's Face the Music and Dance (1:13)

Blue Note celebrates the work of Irving Berlin in fine style here with 16 appropriately high-end jazz interpretations. Culled from sessions cut in the '50s and '60s, the mix includes two versions each of the Berlin evergreens "Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Jackie McLean and Sheila Jordan) and "Blue Skies" (Art Tatum and Jutta Hip), as well as such other usual suspects as "How Deep is the Ocean" (Miles Davis), "Say It Isn't So" (Stan Kenton), and "Cheek to Cheek" (Lou Donaldson). Some vocals-loving fans of the standards might find the heavy hard bop menu a bit much, but the quality here is still superb throughout.