Various Artists – The Best Of Blue Note (2 CD Set)

Description

Release Date: 2014

Label: Blue Note Records

Track List

Disc: 1

1. Summertime – Sidney Bechet Quintet
2. ‘Round About Midnight – Thelonious Monk
3. A Night In Tunisia – Bud Powell
4. Brownie Eyes – Clifford Brown
5. Blue Train – John Coltrane
6. Tune Up – Sonny Rollins
7. Moanin’ – Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
8. Cool Struttin’ – Sonny Clark
9. Blues Walk – Lou Donaldson
10. Somethin’ Else – Cannonball Adderley  (feat. Miles Davis)
11. Back At The Chicken Shack – Jimmy Smith

Disc: 2

1. Chitlins Con Carne – Kenny Burrell
2. The Sidewinder – Lee Morgan
3. Speak No Evil – Wayne Shorter
4. Maiden Voyage – Herbie Hancock
5. Song For My Father – Horace Silver
6. Black Byrd – Donald Byrd
7. Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) – Us3  (feat. Rahsaan & Gerard Presencer)
8. Come On In My Kitchen – Cassandra Wilson
9. Cold Cold Heart – Norah Jones
10. Afro Blue – Robert Glasper  (feat. Erykah Badu)
11. Liquid Spirit – Gregory Porter

Notes

Excellent two CD compilation of classic tracks from the Blue Note Records catalog. This collection represents the complete history of the label, from it’s beginnings – including it’s first best-selling single, “Summertime” – through it’s ’50s – ’60s classic period, with widely-known tracks from label standard bearers Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Jimmy Smith, Lee Morgan et al, and right up to it’s modern successes from Norah Jones, Robert Glasper and Gregory Porter.