VA - Verve - The Sound Of America - The Singles Collection (2013)

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Artist: VA
Title: Verve - The Sound Of America - The Singles Collection
Year Of Release: 2013
Label: Verve Records
Genre: Bossa Nova, Dixieland, Latin Jazz, Cool Jazz, Swing, Hard Bop, Gypsy Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 5:59:46
Total Size: 1.9 GB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD1 - Just Friends 1947 - 1956
1. Jazz At The Philharmonic All Stars - Perdido Pt 1 & Pt 2 (6:00)
2. Charlie Parker, Flip Phillips And Machito & His Orchestra - No Noise Pt 1 & Pt 2 (5:54)
3. Slim Gaillard - Opera In Vout (4:51)
4. Charlie Parker - Just Friends (3:31)
5. Lester Young - I Cover The Waterfront (3:50)
6. Charlie Parker With Dizzy Gillespie & Thelonious Monk - Bloomdido (3:26)
7. Coleman Hawkins - There's A Small Hotel (3:03)
8. Oscar Peterson - Debut (2:50)
9. Johnny Hodges - Castle Rock (2:50)
10. Illinois Jacquet - Port Of Rico (2:43)
11. Billie Holiday - You Go To My Head (2:56)
12. Roy Eldridge - Dale's Wall (3:37)
13. Billie Holiday - Tenderly (3:23)
14. Ben Webster - Tenderly (3:03)
15. Count Basie With Joe Williams - Alright, Okay, You Win (3:03)
16. Count Basie - April in Paris (3:49)
17. Dizzy Gillespie - I can't get started (2:55)
18. Anita O'Day - The Rock & Roll Waltz (2:46)
19. Ella Fitzgerald - Too Young For The Blues (3:14)
20. Gene Krupa With Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge - Boogie Blues (3:51)pic

CD2 - Stairway To The Stars 1956 - 1957
1. Fred Astaire - Hello Baby (2:50)
2. Ella Fitzgerald - A Beautiful Friendship (2:38)
3. Ella Fitzgerald - Stay There (2:35)
4. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Stars Fell On Alabama (3:33)
5. Bing Crosby - Mountain Greenerv (3:37)
6. Ella Fitzgerald - Manhattan (2:50)
7. Woody Herman - I Wonder (2:28)
8. Oscar Peterson - I've Never Left Your Arms (2:51)
9. Ella Fitzgerald - Its All Right With Me (3:08)
10. Johnny Hodges - I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter (3:29)
11. Buddy Bregman - Derek's Blues (2:50)
12. Teddy Wilson - Sayonara (2:53)
13. Oscar Peterson - The Golden Striker (5:13)
14. Gene Krupa - Sing, Sing, Sing (4:49)
15. Ella Fitzgerald - Stairway To The Stars (2:53)
16. Dizzy Gillespie - Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (7:06)
17. Mel Tormé - Frenesi (2:34)
18. Louis Bellson - Lulu's Back In Town (2:31)
19. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (2:58)
20. Louis Armstrong - Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen (4:50)pic

CD3 - Bossa Nova 1958 - 1963
1. Oscar Peterson - On The Street Where You Live (5:34)
2. Ella Fitzgerald - Mack The Knife (4:44)
3. Terry Gibbs - Let's Do it (3:03)
4. Gerry Mulligan & The Concert Jazz Band - I'm Gonna Go Fishin' (5:53)
5. Ella Fitzgerald - How High The Moon (7:07)
6. Roy Eldridge - Bossa Nova (2:44)
7. Ella Fitzgerald - Mr. Paganini (4:04)
8. Ella Fitzgerald - Cry Me A River (4:15)
9. Jimmy Smith - Walk On The Wild Side (5:56)
10. Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Desafinado (2:02)
11. Jimmy Smith - Ol' Man River (3:58)
12. Blossom Dearie - Teach Me Tonight (2:40)
13. Terry Gibbs - The Hippie Twist (2:33)
14. Ella Fitzgerald - Desafinado (2:11
15. Stan Getz - Manha De Carnaval (Morning Of Carnival) (5:48)
16. Jimmy Smith - Hobo Flats (4:45)
17. Ella Fitzgerald - Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home (3:24)
18. Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfa - Sambalero (2:10)
19. Bill Evans - On Broadway (2:32)
20. Kai Winding - More (Theme From Mondo Cane) (2:01)

CD4 - Goldfinger 1963 - 1965
1. Bill Evans - Theme From The V.I.P.'s (2:24)
2. Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith - What'd I Say (2:52)
3. Jimmy Smith - Theme From Any Number Can Win (2:13)
4. Oscar Peterson - Hymn To Freedom (5:25)
5. Antonio Carlos Jobim - Corcovado (2:26)
6. Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie - Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall (3:20)
7. Wynton Kelly - If That's The Way You Want It (2:38)
8. Kai Winding - Mondo Cane #2 (1:54)
9. Jimmy Smith - Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (9:27)
10. Stan Getz - Blowin' in the Wind (2:32)
11. Stan Getz, João Gilberto & Astrud Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema (2:48)
12. Ella Fitzgerald - Hello Dolly (2:53)
13. Louis Armstrong - Makin' Whoopee (3:56)
14. Jimmy Smith - The Cat (3:25)
15. Lalo Schifrin - Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 (3:52)
16. Ella Fitzgerald - Ringo Beat (1:48)
17. Donald Byrd - You've Been Talkin' 'Bout Me Baby (2:40)
18. Cal Tjader - Soul Sauce (2:26)
19. Jimmy Smith - Goldfinger (2:48))
20. Astrud Gilberto - Agua De Beber (2:17)pic

CD5 - Bumpin' On Sunset 1965 - 2001
1. Jimmy Smith With Kenny Burrell & Grady Tate - Organ Grinder's Swing (2:14)
2. Kenny Burrell - Loie (3:18)
3. Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington - Imagine My Frustration (4:50)
4. Willie Bobo - Spanish Grass (2:48)
5. Wes Montgomery - Goin' Out Of My Head (2:14)
6. Jimmy Smith - Got My Mojo Workin' (8:01)
7. Bill Evans Trio - Pavane (3:58)
8. Jimmy Smith - Hoochie Coochie Man (5:59)
9. Wes Montgomery - Bumpin' On Sunset (4:50)
10. Willie Bobo - Sunshine Superman (2:57)
11. Wes Montgomery - California Dreaming (3:08)
12. Astrud Gilberto - Dindi (2:43)
13. Willie Bobo - Evil Ways (2:40)
14. Chico O'Farrill - Manteca (2:47)
15. Jimmy Smith - Chain Of Fools (5:01)
16. Don Sebesky - The Word (3:48)
17. Kenny Burrell - The Preacher (2:59)
18. Lalo Schifrin - Agnus Dei (4:19)
19. Stan Getz - Communications '72 (2:30)
20. Diana Krall - The Look Of Love (4:41)

This impressive box set, released to coincide with the publication of Richard Havers' book Verve: The Sound of America (Thames & Hudson) tells the story of Verve records from the perspective of 100 singles released by the label from ‘Perdido Part 1 & Part 2’ to Diane Krall's ‘The Look of Love’, a single released exclusively to radio stations in 2001. The box set is presented in similar design format to the book, and comprises five volumes in chronological order from a wide range of Verve artists. Since the history of Verve is usually contemplated in terms of the Long Playing record, it is a bit of an eye opener to see the nature and extent of singles releases by Verve artists. The well-produced booklet includes full discographical information that includes a section ‘Verve Singles on the Charts’ and it is surprising how many times Verve singles featured of the Billboard Best Selling Pop Singles chart. For example, Count Basie's ‘April in Paris’ stayed on the chart for 13 weeks, peaking at 28; Johnny Hodges' ‘Castle Rock’ also made it to 28 while Stan Getz's ‘The Girl from Ipanema’ made it to No.5. Ella Fitzgerald and Jimmy Smith appeared on the chart more than any other artist and of all of Ella's singles, the Grammy winning ‘Mack the Knife’ was probably her finest hour, while Jimmy Smith's definitive version of ‘Organ Grinder's Swing’ was probably his best performance. Released in 1965 at the height of the ‘British Invasion’ it made it to a plucky 92 on the chart. It is hard to imagine in today's world such out and out jazz performances by the likes of Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins or Dizzy Gillespie being released as singles, but they were. Much easier to understand is the more commercially orientated fare by the likes of Louis Armstrong, ‘Nobody's Known the Trouble I've Seen’, Anita O'Day's ‘Rock and Roll Waltz’ or Ella Fitzgerald's ‘Ringo Beat’. Verve did make it to Number 2 on the Billboard chart with Ricky Nelson's ‘A Teenage Romance’ (guitar performed by Barney Kessel) but that is not included in this set, a fascinating perspective on a time when jazz releases actually figured on the pop chart. How times have changed.

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