VARIOUS - An Easy Introduction To Jazz - Top 18 Albums

VARIOUS
Top 18 Albums
10xCD box set

£45.00

Condition: NM / NM
Label: New Continent
Catalogue No: 648047

This collection compiles 18 complete JAZZ LPs, all of them classics, which serve as an easy introduction to the genre. All of them were recorded between the mid-1950s and the early 1960s, when recording techniques had advanced significantly with respect to previous years. That period also marked the beginning of the LP era. Represented here are some of the most important figures in jazz, heard on some of their best LPs. This set contains the following 18 ORIGINAL albums in their entireties: Cannonball Adderley: Somethin' Else Wes Montgomery: Groove Yard Miles Davis: Kind of Blue Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis John Coltrane: Giant Steps Clifford Brown & Max Roach: Study in Brown Chet Baker: Chet Baker Sings Oscar Peterson: Plays the Cole Porter Song Book Art Tatum & Ben Webster: The Art Tatum-Ben Webster Quartet Thelonious Monk: The Thelonious Monk Trio Billie Holiday: Lady Sings the Blues Bill Evans: Waltz for Debby Art Blakey: Moanin' Sonny Rollins: Tenor Madness Dave Brubeck: Time Out Count Basie: The Atomic Mr. Basie Coleman Hawkins: The High and Mighty Hawk Stan Getz & Gerry Mulligan: Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi Includes a 20-page booklet including rare photos, vintage memorabilia and detailed liner notes, spread across 10 discs.

1-1 Autumn Leaves
1-10 Just For Now
1-11 Doujie
1-12 Heartstrings
1-13 Remember
1-2 Love For Sale
1-3 Somethin' Else
1-4 One For Daddy-O
1-5 Dancing In The Dark
1-6 Bock To Bock
1-7 Groove Yard
1-8 If I Should Lose You
1-9 Delirium
2-1 So What
2-2 Freddie Freeloader
2-3 Blue In Green
2-4 All Blues
2-5 Flamenco Sketches
2-6 On Green Dolphin Street (Bonus Track)
2-7 Fran-Dance (Bonus Track)
2-8 Stella By Starlight (Bonus Track)
2-9 So What (Bonus Track)
3-1 Can't We Be Friends
3-10 The Nearness Of You
3-11 April In Paris
3-12 Don't Be That Way (Bonus Track)
3-13 Autumn In New York (Bonus Track)
3-14 Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (Bonus Track)
3-15 Love Is Here To Stay (Bonus Track)
3-16 Stompin' At The Savoy (Bonus Track)
3-2 Isn't This A Lovely Day ?
3-3 Moonlight In Vermont
3-4 They Can't Take That Away From Me
3-5 Under A Blanket Of Blue
3-6 Tenderly
3-7 A Foggy Day
3-8 Stars Fell On Alabama
3-9 Cheek To Cheek
4-1 Giant Steps
4-10 Swingin'
4-11 Land's End
4-12 George's Dilemma
4-13 Sandu
4-14 Gerkin For Perkin
4-15 If I Love Again
4-16 Take The A Train
4-2 Cousin Mary
4-3 Countdown
4-4 Spiral
4-5 Syeeda's Song Flute
4-6 Naima
4-7 Mr. P.C.
4-8 Cherokee
4-9 Jacqui
5-1 That Old Feeling
5-10 My Funny Valentine
5-11 There Will Never Be Another You
5-12 The Thrill Is Gone
5-13 I Fall In Love Too Easyly
5-14 Look For The Silver Lining
5-15 Money Jungle
5-16 Fleurette Africaine
5-17 Very Special
5-18 Warm Valley
5-19 Wig Wise
5-2 It's Always You
5-20 Caravan
5-21 Solitude
5-3 Like Someone In Love
5-4 My Ideal
5-5 I've Never Been In Love Before
5-6 My Buddy
5-7 But Not For Me
5-8 Time After Time
5-9 I Get Alone Without You Very Well
6-1 All The Things You Are
6-10 Bemsha Swing
6-11 Reflections
6-12 Little Rootie Tootie
6-13 Sweet And Lovely
6-14 Bye-Ya
6-15 Monk's Dream
6-16 Trinkle Tinkle
6-17 These Foolish Things
6-2 Gone With The Wind
6-3 Have You Met Miss Jones?
6-4 Night And Day
6-5 Where Or When
6-6 My Ideal
6-7 My One And Only Love
6-8 Blue Monk
6-9 Just A Gigolo
7-1 Trav'lin' Light
7-10 Too Marvelous For Words
7-11 Willow Weep For Me
7-12 I Thought About You
7-13 My Foolish Heart
7-14 Waltz For Debby
7-15 Detour Ahead
7-16 My Romance
7-17 Some Other Time
7-18 Milestones
7-2 I Must Have That Man
7-3 Some Other Spring
7-4 Lady Sings The Blues
7-5 Stranege Fruit
7-6 God Bless The Child
7-7 Good Morning, Heartache
7-8 No Good Man
7-9 Love Or Leave Me
8-1 Moanin'
8-10 My Reverie
8-11 The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
8-2 Are You Real ?
8-3 Along Came Betty
8-4 The Drum Thunder Suite
8-5 Blues March
8-6 Come Rain Or Come Shine
8-7 Tenor Madness
8-8 When Your Lover Has Gone
8-9 Paul's Pal
9-1 Blue Rondo A La Turk
9-10 After Supper
9-11 Flight The Foo Birds
9-12 Double-O
9-13 Teddy The Toad
9-14 Whirly-Bird
9-15 Midnite Blue
9-16 Splanky
9-17 Fantail
9-18 Li'l Darlin'
9-2 Strange Meadow Lark
9-3 Take Five
9-4 Three To Get Ready
9-5 Kathy's Waltz
9-6 Everybody's Jumpin'
9-7 Pick Up Sticks
9-8 The Kid From Red Bank
9-9 Duet
10-1 Bird Of Prey Blues
10-10 That Old Feeling
10-11 This Can's Be Love
10-12 A Ballad
10-2 My One And Only Love
10-3 Vignette
10-4 Ohh-Wee, Miss G.P. !
10-5 You've Changed
10-6 Get Set
10-7 Let's Fall In Love
10-8 Anythings Goes
10-9 Too Close For Confort