| Product Summary | | Label: Uni/verve | | UPC: 00731451985324 | | Release Date: 4/19/1994 | | Buy.com Sku: 60211838 | | Item#: MYQH9G | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Just One Of Those Things - Louis Armstrong ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Woody 'N' You - Oscar Peterson ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Lullaby Of Birdland - Sarah Vaughan ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Tour De Force - Dizzy Gillespie ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Girl From Ipanema, The - Stan Getz ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Diminuendo In Blue And Blow By Blow - Duke Ellington ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Captain Marvel - Chick Corea ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Ev'rything I've Got - Ella Fitzgerald ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Impressions - Wes Montgomery ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Love Me Or Leave Me - Nina Simone ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Star Eyes - Charlie Parker ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Here's That Rainy Day - Bill Evans ~ Various Artists | | | 13. What A Diff'rence A Day Made - Dinah Washington ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Misty - Erroll Garner ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Fine Romance, A - Billie Holiday ~ Various Artists | | | 16. April In Paris - Count Basie ~ Various Artists | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Recorded between 1950 and 1972. Includes liner notes by Chris Albertson, David Dunn, Benjamin Franklin V, Carl Woldeck, Francis Davis, Peter Pullman, Scott DeVeaux, Kevin Whitehead, Kenny Washington, James Gavin, Jon Schapiro, Art Lange, John Litweller, John McDonough and Jessica Raimi. | | All tracks have been digitally remastered. | | This is part of the Verve Jazz Masters series. | | INTRODUCING THE VERVE JAZZ MASTERS is a sixteen-track sampler of cuts by artists who are part of the Verve Jazz Masters series. INTRODUCING... is this series' twentieth release. | | Personnel: Joao Gilberto (vocals, guitar); Nina Simone (vocals, piano); Dinah Washington, Flora Purim, Astrud Gilberto, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan (vocals); Freddie Green, Herb Ellis, Rudy Stevenson, Barney Kessel, Wes Montgomery (guitar); Frank Wess (flute, tenor saxophone); Herbie Mann, Joe Farrell (flute); Marshall Royal (clarinet, alto saxophone); Jimmy Hamilton (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Jerome Richardson (reeds); Jimmy Powell , Johnny Hodges, Phil Woods, Russell Procope, Benny Carter , Bill Graham, Charlie Parker (alto saxophone); Ernie Wilkins, Frank Foster, Paul Gonsalves, Paul Quinichette, Stan Getz, Billy Mitchell (tenor saxophone); Marty Flax, Harry Carney, Charles Davis , Charlie Fowlkes (baritone saxophone); Clifford Brown , Cootie Williams, Reunald Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Ermet Perry, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Herbie Jones, Joe Gordon, Joe Newman , Louis Armstrong, Mercer Ellington, Quincy Jones, Thad Jones, Wendell Culley, Cat Anderson (trumpet); Frank Rehak, Rod Levitt, Henry Coker, Lawrence Brown , Melba Liston, Benny Powell, Bill Hughes , Chuck Connors, Buster Cooper (trombone); Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Erroll Garner, Hank Jones , Jimmy Jones , Jimmy Rowles, Oscar Peterson, Paul Smith , Walter Davis, Wynton Kelly, Bill Evans (piano); Chick Corea (electric piano); Airto Moreira (drums, percussion); Eugene "Fats" Heard, Ed Thigpen, Jimmy Cobb , Larry Bunker, Louie Bellson, Alvin Stoller, Milton Banana, Panama Francis, Roy Haynes, Sam Woodyard, Sonny Payne, Bobby Hamilton , Buddy Rich, Charlie Persip (drums); Candido Camero (congas). | | Recording information: Chicago, IL (04/??/1950-12/12/1969); Half Note, NY (04/??/1950-12/12/1969); International Festival Of Jazz, Juan-Les-Pins, France (04/??/1950-12/12/1969); L.A., CA (04/??/1950-12/12/1969); London, England (04/??/1950-12/12/1969); New York, NY (04/??/1950-12/12/1969). | | Director: Ernie Wilkins. | | Arrangers: Ernie Wilkins; Wild Bill Davis. | | At least this pocket-sized, budget-priced trip through 22 years of jazz doesn't pretend to be a definitive primer on jazz. It is simply and purely a sampler from the first 19 issues of Verve's Jazz Masters series; in other words, a sampler of a sampler. There is some clever segueing; the opening track, Louis Armstrong's "Just One of Those Things" with Oscar Peterson, leads right into Peterson in all his high-speed fury with his trio in "Woody 'n' You." There are some predictable choices -- the 328th reissue of Wes Montgomery's "Impressions," or the 1, 243rd reissue of Getz/Gilberto/Jobim's "The Girl From Ipanema" -- and as befitting the composition of the Verve archives, there is heavy emphasis (five out of 16 tracks) upon female singers. But the stylistic range is reasonably wide, or as reasonable as these archives would allow, even to the point of including an electric track, Chick Corea's "Captain Marvel" from 1972, and thanks to a bit of doubling or tripling up, every artist from the first 19 volumes except Stephane Grappelli is represented. Eventually, the Jazz Masters would come to its conclusion after 60 volumes, the last of which is yet another sampler. For jazz newcomers only, or impulse buyers who want a token jazz CD on their shelf. ~ Richard S. Ginell |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 04/19/1994 | | Original Release Date : 1994 | | Catalog ID : 519853 | | Label : Verve (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 68m : 30s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Mixed | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00731451985324 |
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