VA - The Blue Box Blue Note's Best (1997) 4CD скачать бесплатно

This compilation, produced by EMI Canada, is a very good way for a novice to sample the wide variety of music and artists on one of the great Jazz labels of all time. The recordings are culled from the various "Best of the Blue Note Years" collections that the label released during the 1990's. The recordings span a period of over 50 years, from Sidney Bechet's seminal 1939 recording of "Summertime" to John Scofield's 1993 "Message to My Friend". Of course, when you mine a vault as rich as Blue Note's, you virtually cannot miss in coming up with true classic music. However, some of the selections are questionable (e.g. only one cut each from Jimmy Smith and Art Blakey, but we get two middling funk exercises from Donald Byrd?) and the sequencing at times is a bit jarring (e.g. from Wayne Shorter's "Speak No Evil" right into Grant Green's "Sookie, Sookie"). These however, are relatively minor complaints. Overall, I would recommend this collection for anyone who wants an overview of what made Blue Note great; but beware! This collection may end up costing you a lot more, as it will most likely whet your appetite for more great things from the artists who are only sampled here! (Amazon)

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1. Art Blakey - Dat Dere (8:50)

2. Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage (7:59)

3. Kenny Burrell - Day Dream (5:02)

4. Sidney Bechet - Summertime (4:14)

5. Kenny Dorham - Una Mas (15:19)

6. McCoy Tyner - The Wanderer (7:49)

7. Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk (6:46)

8. Donald Byrd - Black Byrd (7:22)

9. Stanley Jordan - Eleanor Rigby (7:01)

1. Miles Davis - It Never Entered My Mind (4:05)

2. Bobby McFerrin - Turtle Shoes (3:35)

3. Herbie Hancock - Canteloupe Island (5:34)

4. Dexter Gordon - Three O'Clock in the Morning (5:45)

5. Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser (3:00)

6. John Coltrane - Blue Train (10:43)

7. Carmen McRae - A Child Is Born (3:28)

8. Jay Jay Johnson - Viscosity (alternate take) (4:23)

9. Horace Silver - Sènor Blues (7:06)

10. Bud Powell - Collard Greens and Black-Eyed Peas (3:06)

11. Hank Mobley - Avila and Tequila (4:32)

12. Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder (10:25)

1. Thelonious Monk - 'Round Midnight (3:13)

2. John Scofield - Message to My Friend (6:09)

3. The Three Sounds - Stompin' at the Savoy (4:55)

4. Donald Byrd - Jelly Roll (5:17)

5. Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack (8:03)

6. Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil (8:25)

7. Grant Green - Sookie, Sookie (10:59)

8. Joe Henderson - Blue Bossa (8:01)

9. Michel Petrucciani - Lullaby (5:17)

10. Miles Davis - C.T.A. (3:36)

11. Sonny Rollins - Decision (8:00)

1. Stanley Turrentine - God Bless The Child (4:01)

2. Horace Silver - Song For My Father (7:18)

3. Wayne Shorter - Footprints (7:32)

4. Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (7:07)

5. Lou Donaldson - Every Thing I Do Gonh Be Funky (5:30)

6. Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame (7:13)

7. Grant Green - Speak Low (7:13)

8. Jay Jay Johnson - Lover Man (3:58)

9. Bud Powell - Un Poco Loco (4:46)

10. Dexter Gordon - Don't Explain (6:07)

11. Tony Williams - Sister Cheryl (7:01)

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