Verve - The Sound Of America (5-cd)

Various Artists

Disc 1: 01. Perdido pt 1 & pt 2 - Jazz at the Philharmonic 02. No noise - Charlie Parker 03. Opéra in vout - pt 1 & pt 2 - Slim Gaillard 04. Just friends - Charlie Parker 05. I cover the waterfront - Lester Young 06. Bloomdido - Charlie Parker 07. There's a small hôtel - Coleman Hawkins 08. Début - Oscar Peterson 09. Castle rock - Johnny Hodges 10. Port of rico - Illinois Jacquet 11. You go to my head - Billie Holiday 12. Dale's wail - Roy Eldridge 13. Tenderly - Billie Holiday 14. Tenderly - Ben Webster 15. Alright, okay, you win - Count Basie 16. April in paris - Count Basie 17. I can't get started - Dizzy Gillespie 18. The rock and roll waltz - Anita O'Day 19. Too young for the blues - Ella Fitzgerald 20. Boogie blues - Gene Krupa Big Band Disc 2: 01. Hello baby - Fred Astaire 02. A beautiful friendship - Ella Fitzgerald 03. Stay there - Ella Fitzgerald 04. Stars fell on alabama - Ella Fitzgerald 05. Mountain greenery - Bing Crosby 06. Manhattan - Ella Fitzgerald 07. I wonder - Woody Herman & His Orchestra 08. I've never left your arms - Oscar Peterson 09. It's all right with me - Ella Fitzgerald 10. I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter - Johnny Hodges 11. Derek's blues - Buddy Bregman 12. Sayonara - Teddy Wilson 13. The golden striker - Oscar Peterson 14. Sing sing sing - Gene Krupa 15. Stairway to the stars - Ella Fitzgerald 16. Swing low sweet cadillac - Dizzy Gillespie 17. Frenesi - Mel Torme 18. Lulu's back in town - Louis Bellson 19. Strange fruit - Billie Holiday 20. Nobody knows the trouble I've seen - Louis Armstrong Disc 3: 01. On the street where you live - Oscar Peterson 02. Mack the knife - Ella Fitzgerald 03. Let's do it - Terry Gibbs 04. I'm gonna go fishin' - Gerry Mulligan 05. How high the moon - Ella Fitzgerald 06. Bossa nova - Roy Eldridge 07. (you'll have to swing it) mr. paganini - Ella Fitzgerald 08. Cry me a river - Ella Fitzgerald 09. Walk on the wild side - Jimmy Smith 10. Desafinado - Stan Getz 11. Ol' man river - Jimmy Smith 12. Teach me tonight - Blossom Dearie 13. The hippie twist - Terry Gibbs 14. Desafinado - Ella Fitzgerald 15. Manha de carnaval (morning of carnival) - Stan Getz 16. Hobo flats - Jimmy Smith 17. Bill bailey won't you please come home - Ella Fitzgerald 18. Sambalero - Stan Getz 19. On broadway - Bill Evans 20. More (thème from mondo cane) - Kai Winding Disc 4: 01. Thème from the V.I.p.s - Bill Evans 02. What'd I say - Jimmy Smith 03. Thème from any number can win - Jimmy Smith 04. Hymn to freedom - The Oscar Peterson Trio 05. Corcovado - Antonio Carlos Jobim 06. Into each life some rain must fall - Ella Fitzgerald 07. If that's the way you want it - Wynton Kelly 08. Mondo cane #2 - Kai Winding 09. Who's afraid of virginia woolf - Jimmy Smith 10. Blowin' in the wind - Stan Getz 11. The girl from ipanema - Stan Getz 12. Hello dolly - Ella Fitzgerald 13. Makin' whoopee - Louis Armstrong 14. The cat - Jimmy Smith 15. Bachianas brasileiras no. 5 - Lalo Schifrin 16. Ringo beat - Ella Fitzgerald 17. You've been talkin' 'bout me baby - Donald Byrd 18. Soul sauce - Cal Tjader 19. Goldfinger - Jimmy Smith 20. Agua de beber - Astrud Gilberto Disc 5: 01. Organ grinder's swing - Jimmy Smith 02. Loie - Kenny Burrell 03. Imagine my frustration - Ella Fitzgerald 04. Spanish grease - Willie Bobo 05. Goin' out of my head - Wes Montgomery 06. Got my mojo workin' - Jimmy Smith 07. Pavane - Bill Evans Trio 08. Hoochie coochie man - Jimmy Smith 09. Bumpin' on sunset - Wes Montgomery 10. Sunshine superman - Willie Bobo 11. California dreaming - Wes Montgomery 12. Dindi - Astrud Gilberto 13. Evil ways - Willie Bobo 14. Manteca - Chico O'Farrill 15. Chain of fools - Jimmy Smith 16. The word - Don Sebesky 17. The preacher - Kenny Burrell 18. Agnus dei - Lalo Schifrin 19. Communications '72 - Stan Getz 20. The look of love - Diana Krall

The entire story of jazz—from its earliest days in New Orleans to the 1970s and beyond—told through archival material from Verve, the genre’s most important label.
Verve signed practically every major jazz artist of the 1950s and 1960s and is home to some of the greatest music ever recorded. Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, and Ella Fitzgerald all released records through Verve.

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