10 HOURS OF JAZZ FROM THE GENRE’S MOST EXPLOSIVE DECADE.
CD 1: 1950-1954
1. Charlie Parker Quintet - Bloomdido (1950) 2. Lee Konitz - Subconscious Lee (1950) 3. Bud Powell - Bouncing with Bud (1951) 4. Gerry Mulligan - My Funny Valentine (with Chet Baker) (1951) 5. Ahmad Jamal - The Surrey with the Fringe on Top (1951) 6. Charlie Parker Quintet - Au Privave (1951) 7. Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser (1952) 8. George Shearing - Lullaby of Birdland (1952) 9. Lester Young - Almost Like Being in Love (1952) 10. Peggy Lee - Black Coffee (1953) 11. Django Reinhardt - Nuages (1953) 12. Modern Jazz Quartet - Django (1954) 13. Miles Davis - Walkin’ (1954) 14. Dizzy Gillespie - Caravan (1954) 15. Tal Farlow - If There’s Someone Lovelier than You (1954) 16. Johnny Hodges - On the Sunny Side of the Street (1954) 17. Sarah Vaughan - Lover Man (1954) 18. Clifford Brown - Joy Spring (with Max Roach) (1954)
CD2: 1955-1956
1. Horace Silver - Doodlin’ (with The Jazz Messengers) (1955) 2. Dexter Gordon - Confirmation (1955) 3. Kenny Dorham - Afrodisia (1955) 4. Ahmad Jamal - New Rhumba (1955) 5. Miles Davis - Round Midnight (1956) 6. Erroll Garner - Misty (1955) 7. Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas (1956) 8. Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk (1956) 9. Jimmy Smith - The Champ (1956) 10. Carmen McRae - I Was Doing All Right (1956) 11. Hank Mobley - Avila and Tequila (1956) 12. Cal Tjader - Guarachi Guaro (1956) 13. Coleman Hawkins - April in Paris (1956) 14. Nat King Cole - Route 66 (1956) 15. Art Tatum & Ben Webster - Have You Met Miss Jones (1956)
CD3: 1956-1957
1. Horace Silver - Senor Blues (1956) 2. Lee Morgan - I Remember Clifford (1957) 3. Louis Armstrong - Mack the Knife (1957) 4. Count Basie - The Kid from Red Bank (1957) 5. Miles Davis - The Maids of Cadiz (1957) 6. John Coltrane - Blue Train (1957) 7. Hank Mobley - Funk in a Deep Freeze (1957) 8. Stan Getz - I Want to Be Happy (with Oscar Peterson Trio) (1957) 9. Dizzy Gillespie - Birk’s Works (1957) 10. Blossom Dearie - They Say It’s Spring (1957) 11. John Coltrane - Russian Lullaby (1957) 12. Thelonious Monk - Well You Needn’t (1957) 13. Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - One O’clock Jump (1957)
CD 4: 1957
1. Gerry Mulligan - Line for Lyons (with Paul Desmond) (1957) 2. Yusef Lateef - Playful Flute (1957) 3. Red Garland - Billie’s Bounce (1957) 4. Frank Sinatra - Come Fly with Me (1957) 5. Charles Mingus - Haitian Fight Song (1957) 6. Ben Webster - Soulville (1957) 7. Sonny Clark - Dial S for Sonny (1957) 8. Kenny Burrell - I’ll Close My Eyes (1957) 9. Anita O’Day - ‘S Wonderful/They Can’t Take That Away From Me (1957) 10. Art Pepper - You’d Be So Nice to Come Home to (1957) 11. Art Farmer - Farmer’s Market (1957) 12. Curtis Counce Group - Landslide (1957)
CD5: 1957-1958
1. Benny Golson - Whisper Not (1957) 2. Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me (1957) 3. Quincy Jones - Stockholm Sweetnin’ (1957) 4. Ray Charles - Dawn Ray (instrumental) (1957) 5. Duke Ellington - Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue (1957) 6. Ahmad Jamal Trio - Poinciana (1958) 7. Louis Armstrong - Summertime (with Ella Fitzgerald) (1958) 8. Miles Davis - Milestones (1958) 9. Sonny Rollins - Way Out West (1958) 10. Cannonball Adderley - Autumn Leaves (1958)
CD6: 1958-1959
1. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin’ (1958) 2. Jackie McLean - Hip Strut (1958) 3. Chet Baker - Do It the Hard Way (1958) 4. Johnny Griffin - Cherokee (1958) 5. Ella Fitzgerald - Let’s Face the Music & Dance (1958) 6. Cal Tjader - Ginza Samba (with Stan Getz) (1958) 7. Ben Webster - In the Wee Small Hours (1958) 8. Billie Holiday - You’ve Changed (1958) 9. Chris Connor - The Night We Called It A Day (1958) 10. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Along Came Betty (1958) 11. Ella Fitzgerald - Cheek To Cheek (1958) 12. Bill Evans - Peace Piece (1958) 13. Oscar Peterson - It Ain’t Necessarily So (1959)
CD 7: 1958-1959
1. Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin’ (1958) 2. Jimmy Smith - The Sermon (1958) 3. Donald Byrd - Here I Am (1959) 4. Ray Charles - Let the Good Times Roll (1959) 5. Charles Mingus - Better Git It in Your Soul (1959) 6. George Russell - Manhattan (1959) 7. Dinah Washington - What a Difference a Day Made (1959) 8. Wes Montgomery - The End of a Love Affair (1959) 9. Chet Baker - Polka Dots & Moonbeams (1959)
CD8: 1959
1. Miles Davis - So What (1959) 2. Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman (1959) 3. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five (1959) 4. Wynton Kelly - Keep It Moving (1959) 5. Ornette Coleman - Ramblin’ (1959) 6. Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (1959) 7. Bill Evans - Blue in Green (1959) 8. John Coltrane - Naima (1959) 9. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Blue Rondo a la Turk (1959) 10. John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1959)
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 587:19