Various Artists: Icon: The Best of Blue Note / Various – COMPACT DISCS

Title: Icon: The Best of Blue Note / Various
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Blue Note Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 602537674374
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2014-03-11
Number of Discs: 2

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.

Tracks:
1.1 Summertime – Sidney Bechet Quintet (4:13)
1.2 ‘Round Midnight – Thelonious Monk (3:11)
1.3 A Night in Tunisia – Bud Powell (4:16)
1.4 Brownie Eyes – Clifford Brown (3:56)
1.5 Blue Train – John Coltrane (10:41)
1.6 Tune Up – Sonny Rollins (5:45)
1.7 Moanin’ – Art Blakey ; the Jazz Messengers (9:33)
1.8 Cool Struttin’ – Sonny Clark (9:23)
1.9 Blues Walk – Lou Donaldson (6:41)
1.10 Somethin’ Else – Miles Davis (8:13)
1.11 Back at the Chicken Shack – Jimmy Smith (8:03)
2.1 Chitlins Con Carne – Kenny Burrell (5:24)
2.2 The Sidewinder – Lee Morgan (10:23)
2.3 Speak No Evil – Wayne Shorter (8:19)
2.4 Maiden Voyage – Herbie Hancock (7:51)
2.5 Song for My Father – Horace Silver (7:18)
2.6 Black Byrd – Donald Byrd (7:20)
2.7 Cantaloop – Gerard Presencer (4:39)
2.8 Come on in My Kitchen – Cassandra Wilson (4:54)
2.9 Cold Cold Heart – Norah Jones (3:36)
2.10 Afro Blue – Robert Glasper (5:09)
2.11 Liquid Spirit – Gregory Porter (3:36)