The 100 best jazz tunes of the 1950's.

Call Number

• COMPACT DISC JAZZ (CEN)

Performers

Various performers.

Publication Information

New Malden, Surrey : Chrome Dreams, p2011.

Physical Description

8 sound discs (ca. 587 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Notes

Title from container.

Compact disc.

Selections previously released 1950-1959.

Program notes in container insert.

Contents

• Disc 1. (1950-1954, 77 min., 3 sec.) Bloomdido (Charlie Parker Quintet)
• Subconscious Lee (Lee Konitz)
• Bouncing with Bud (Bud Powell)
• My funny valentine (Gerry Mulligan with Chet Baker)
• The Surrey with the fringe on top (Ahmad Jamal)
• Au privave (Charlie Parker Quintet)
• Straight no chaser (Thelonious Monk)
• Lullaby of Birdland (George Shearing)
• Almost like being in love (Lester Young)
• Black coffee (Peggy Lee)
• Nuages (Django Reinhardt)
• Django (Modern Jazz Quartet)
• Walkin' (Miles Davis)
• Caravan (Dizzy Gillespie)
• If there's someone lovelier than you (Tal Farlow)
• On the sunny side of the street (Johnny Hodges)
• Lover man (Sarah Vaughan)
• Joy spring (Clifford Brown ; with Max Roach).

• Disc 2. (1955-1956, 79 min., 6 sec.) Doodlin' (Horace Silver ; with the Jazz Messengers)
• Confirmation (Dexter Gordon)
• Afrodisia (Kenny Dorham)
• New rhumba (Ahmad Jamal)
• Round midnight (Miles Davis)
• Misty (Erroll Garner)
• St. Thomas (Sonny Rollins)
• Blue monk (Thelonious Monk)
• The champ (Jimmy Smith)
• I was doing all right (Carmen McRae)
• Avila and tequila (Hank Mobley)
• Guarachi guaro (Cal Tjader)
• April in Paris (Coleman Hawkins)
• Route 66 (Nat King Cole)
• Have you met Miss Jones (Art Tatum & Ben Webster).

• Disc 3. (1956-1957, 77 min., 50 sec.) Senor blues (Horace Silver)
• I remember Clifford (Lee Morgan)
• Mack the knife (Louis Armstrong)
• The kid from Red Bank (Count Basie)
• The maids of Cadiz (Miles Davis)
• Blue train (John Coltrane)
• Funk in a deep freeze (Hank Mobley)
• I want to be happy (Stan Getz ; with Oscar Peterson Trio)
• Birk's works (Dizzy Gillespie)
• They say it's spring (Blossom Dearie)
• Russian lullaby (John Coltrane)
• Well you needn't (Thelonious Monk)
• One o'clock jump (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross).

• Disc 4. (1957, 75 min., 12 sec.) Line for Lyons (Gerry Mulligan ; with Paul Desmond)
• Playful flute (Yusef Lateef)
• Billie's bounce (Red Garland)
• Come fly with me (Frank Sinatra)
• Haitian fight song (Charles Mingus)
• Soulville (Ben Webster)
• Dial S for Sonny (Sonny Clark)
• I'll close my eyes (Kenny Burrell)
• 'S wonderful ; They can't take that away from me (Anita O'Day)
• You'd be so nice to come home to (Art Pepper)
• Farmer's market (Art Farmer)
• Landslide (Curtis Counce Group).

• Disc 5. (1957-1958, 70 min., 58 sec.) Whisper not (Benny Golson)
• My baby just cares for me (Nina Simone)
• Stockholm sweetnin' (Quincy Jones)
• Dawn ray (instrumental) (Ray Charles)
• Diminuendo and crescendo in blue (Duke Ellington)
• Poinciana (Ahmad Jamal Trio)
• Summertime (Louis Armstrong ; with Ella Fitzgerald)
• Milestones (Miles Davis)
• Way out west (Sonny Rollins)
• Autumn leaves (Cannonball Adderley).

• Disc 6. (1958-1959, 73 min., 47 sec.) Moanin' (Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers)
• Hip strut (Jackie McLean)
• Do it the hard way (Chet Baker)
• Cherokee (Johnny Griffin)
• Let's face the music & dance (Ella Fitzgerald)
• Ginza samba (Cal Tjader)
• In the wee small hours (Ben Webster)
• You've changed (Billie Holiday)
• The night we called it a day (Chris Connor)
• Along came betty (Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers)
• Cheek to cheek (Ella Fitzgerald)
• Peace piece (Bill Evans)
• It ain't necessarily so (Oscar Peterson).

• Disc 7. (1958-1959, 72 min., 30 sec.) Cool struttin' (Sonny Clark)
• The sermon (Jimmy Smith)
• Here I am (Donald Byrd)
• Let the good times roll (Ray Charles)
• Better git it in your soul (Charles Mingus)
• Manhattan (George Russell)
• What a difference a day made (Dinah Washington)
• The end of a love affair (Wes Montgomery)
• Polka dots & moonbeams (Chet Baker).

• Disc 8. (1959, 60 min., 53 sec.) So what (Miles Davis)
• Lonely woman (Ornette Coleman)
• Take five (Dave Brubeck Quartet)
• Keep it moving (Wynton Kelly)
• Ramblin' (Ornette Coleman)
• Goodbye pork pie hat (Charles Mingus)
• Blue in green (Bill Evans)
• Naima (John Coltrane)
• Blue rondo a la turk (Dave Brubeck Quartet)
• Giant steps (John Coltrane).