Ultimate Jazz & Blues

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Annotation

One of these "listener-digest" huge budget sets compiling in 30 discs a range of jazz musicians, apparently drawing the takes from public domain material.
If cheap, maybe this is a good dig for absolute beginners who want an overview about things. Amateurs, obviously, stay away.

The Mingus disc consists exclusively of early 1945-49 singles, probably ripped from the (way superior) "West Coast" Mingus late anthology.

Annotation last modified on 2014-05-02 16:04 UTC.

Tracklist

▶ CD 1: Stan Getz
▶ CD 2: Astrud Gilberto
▶ CD 3: Django Reinhardt
▶ CD 4: Sarah Vaughan
▶ CD 5: Tony Bennett
▶ CD 6: B.B. King
▶ CD 7: Ray Charles
▶ CD 8: Miles Davis
▶ CD 9: Charles Mingus
▶ CD 10: John Coltrane
▶ CD 11: Nina Simone
▶ CD 12: Buddy Guy
▶ CD 13: Glenn Miller
▶ CD 14: Judy Garland
▶ CD 15: Count Basie
▶ CD 16: Charlie Parker
▶ CD 17: Billie Holiday
▶ CD 18: Benny Goodman
▶ CD 19: Sidney Bechet
▶ CD 20: Dizzy Gillespie
▶ CD 21: Duke Ellington
▶ CD 22: Ella Fitzgerald
▼ CD 23: Perry Como
# Title Artist Rating Length
1 Till the End of Time
Perry Como 3:11
2 If I'm Lucky
Perry Como 2:57
3 Bali Ha'i
Perry Como 3:33
4 If
Perry Como 3:06
5 I Wanna Go Home (With You)
Perry Como 2:22
6 Sonata
Perry Como 3:18
7 Some Enchanted Evening
Perry Como 3:29
8 A Garden in the Rain
Perry Como 3:04
9 With a Song in My Heart
Perry Como 2:14
10 They Say It's Wonderful
Perry Como 2:34
11 Far Away Places
Perry Como 3:03
12 A Bushel and a Peck
Perry Como 2:45
13 Long Ago and Far Away
Perry Como 3:09
14 Prisoner of Love
Perry Como 4 3:31
15 Temptation
Perry Como 2:46
16 Blue Room
Perry Como 3:29
▶ CD 24: Louis Armstrong
▶ CD 25: Nat King Cole
▶ CD 26: Erroll Garner
▶ CD 27: Lionel Hampton
▶ CD 28: John Lee Hooker
▶ CD 29: Muddy Waters
▶ CD 30: Sonny Terry

Credits

CD 23: Perry Como

composer:
Nacio Herb Brown (US songwriter) (tracks 15, 15)
Russ Columbo (American singer, songwriter, violinist and actor) (tracks 14, 14)
Eddie DeLange (track 2)
Tolchard Evans (tracks 4, 4)
Clarence Gaskill (tracks 14, 14)
Jerome Kern (track 13)
Josef Myrow (track 2)
Richard Rodgers (tracks 3, 7)
Irving Berlin (tracks 10, 10)
Frank Loesser (track 12)
Richard Rodgers (1926) (track 16)
Carroll Gibbons (1928) (track 8)
Richard Rodgers (1929) (track 9)
Ted Mossman (1945) (tracks 1, 1)
lyricist:
Irving Berlin (tracks 10, 10)
Stanley J. Damerell (tracks 4, 4)
Arthur Freed (tracks 15, 15)
Ira Gershwin (track 13)
Oscar Hammerstein II (tracks 3, 7)
Robert Hargreaves (tracks 4, 4)
Frank Loesser (track 12)
Leo Robin (tracks 14, 14)
Lorenz Hart (1926) (track 16)
James Dyrenforth (1928) (track 8)
Lorenz Hart (1929) (track 9)
Buddy Kaye (1945) (tracks 1, 1)
orchestra:
Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra (tracks 3, 7)
Russ Case and His Orchestra (tracks 1, 10)
Henri René & His Orchestra (track 11)
Ted Steele and His Orchestra (track 15)
Russ Case and His Orchestra (1945-12-18) (track 14)
Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra (1950-11-28) (track 4)
producer:
Charles R. Grean (track 4)
vocals:
Perry Como (American popular music singer and TV personality, 1912-2001) (1945-07-05) (track 1)
Perry Como (American popular music singer and TV personality, 1912-2001) (1945-12-18) (track 14)
Perry Como (American popular music singer and TV personality, 1912-2001) (1949-03-01) (track 7)
Perry Como (American popular music singer and TV personality, 1912-2001) (1950-11-28) (track 4)
writer:
Alex Kramer (1948) (track 11)
Joan Whitney (1948) (track 11)
publisher:
Chappell Music Ltd. (track 9)
EMI Music Publishing (do not use as a release label!) (track 7)
EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (tracks 3, 7)
Triangle Music Corp. (track 2)
Universal PolyGram International Publishing, Inc. (existed only since ca. 1998) (track 13)
Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (tracks 2, 9)
Warner/Chappell Music International Ltd. (track 2)
Williamson Music Company (tracks 3, 7)
Wise Brothers Music LLC (track 2)
T.B. Harms (US sheet music publisher 1875 sold to Warner Brothers 1929 sold to Welk Music 1970) (1944) (track 13)
cover recording of:
If (Song, popular in the 1950s) (track 4)
Prisoner of Love (track 14)
Temptation (track 15)
They Say It’s Wonderful (from “Annie Get Your Gun”) (track 10)
Till the End of Time (1945-07-05) (track 1)
is based on:
Polonaise in A-flat major, op. 53 "Heroique" (tracks 1, 1)
later translated versions:
Sanovat sitä ihmeelliseksi (tracks 10, 10)
part of:
Singin' in the Rain (1952 film) (tracks 15, 15)
South Pacific (Rodgers & Hammerstein musical) (tracks 3, 7)
Guys and Dolls (full musical) (track 12)
Annie Get Your Gun (tracks 10, 10)
recording of:
A Bushel and a Peck (track 12)
A Garden in the Rain (track 8)
Bali Ha’i (South Pacific) (track 3)
Blue Room (track 16)
Far Away Places (track 11)
If (Song, popular in the 1950s) (track 4)
If I’m Lucky (track 2)
Long Ago (and Far Away) (track 13)
Temptation (track 15)
They Say It’s Wonderful (from “Annie Get Your Gun”) (track 10)
Till the End of Time (track 1)
With a Song in My Heart (track 9)
Prisoner of Love (1945-12-18) (track 14)
Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific) (1949-03-01) (track 7)
referred to in medleys:
Overture (tracks 1, 1, 14, 14–15, 15)
Perry Como Medley (tracks 1, 1)
Annie Get Your Gun Medley: The Girl That I Marry / They Say It’s Wonderful / My Defences Are Down (tracks 10, 10)
Annie Get Your Gun Suite (tracks 10, 10)
South Pacific Suite (tracks 3, 7)

Release

ASIN: UK: B000A2GJA8 [info]