The Sound Of America: The Singles Collection

VARIOUS The Sound Of America: The Singles Collection (2013 UK Limited Edition Five CD Box Set, featuring the story of the legendary Verve Records label in one hundred singles, including rare & previously unavailable recordings from Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Oscar Peterson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire & more. Each disc is housed in its individual gatefold card wallet sleeve complete with a fully illustrated booklet & full discography information, all kept in a 5.5" x 5.5" x 1.5" two-piece picture box with silver embossed lift-up lid. A superb set!)

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Product Availability Currently Unavailable - You can request the next copy of this item
Release Year 2013 - 11 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format CD Album Box Set
Record Label Verve Records
Complete Stock List Go to Various-Jazz
Product Catalogue No 0600753455616
Music Genre Jazz
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
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Tracklisting & More Information

CD ONE - Just Friends 1947-1956:
1. Jazz At The Philharmonic - Perdido Pt 1 & Pt 2 6:00
2. Charlie Parker, Flip Phillips And Machito & His Orchestra - No Noise Pt 1 & Pt 2 5:54
3. Slim Gaillard - Opera In Vout 4:51
4. Charlie Parker - Just Friends 3:31
5. Lester Young - I Cover The Waterfront 3:50
6. Charlie Parker With Dizzy Gillespie & Thelonious Monk - Bloomdido 3:26
7. Coleman Hawkins - There's A Small Hotel 3:03
8. Oscar Peterson - Debut 2:50
9. Johnny Hodges - Castle Rock 2:50
10. Illinois Jacquet - Port Of Rico 2:43
11. Billie Holiday - You Go To My Head 2:56
12. Roy Eldridge - Dale's Wall 3:37
13. Billie Holiday - Tenderly 3:23
14. Ben Webster - Tenderly 3:03
15. Count Basie & Joe Williams - Alright, Okay, You Win 3:03
16. Count Basie - April in Paris 3:49
17. Dizzy Gillespie - I can't get started 2:55
18. Anita O'Day - The Rock & Roll Waltz 2:46
19. Ella Fitzgerald - Too Young For The Blues 3:14
20. Gene Krupa Big Band - Boogie Blues 3:51

CD TWO - Stairway To The Stars 1956-1957:
1. Fred Astaire - Hello Baby 2:50
2. Ella Fitzgerald - A Beautiful Friendship 2:38
3. Ella Fitzgerald - Stay There 2:35
4. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Stars Fell On Alabama 3:33
5. Bing Crosby - Mountain Greenerv 3:37
6. Ella Fitzgerald - Manhattan 2:50
7. Woody Herman And His Orchestra - I Wonder 2:28
8. Oscar Peterson - I've Never Left Your Arms 2:51
9. Ella Fitzgerald - Its All Right With Me 3:08
10. Johnny Hodges - I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter 3:29
11. Buddy Bregman - Derek's Blues 2:50
12. Teddy Wilson - Sayonara 2:53
13. Oscar Peterson - The Golden Striker 5:13
14. Gene Krupa - Sing, Sing, Sing 4:49
15. Ella Fitzgerald - Stairway To The Stars 2:53
16. Dizzy Gillespie - Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac 7:06
17. Mel Tormé - Frenesi 2:34
18. Louis Bellson - Lulu's Back In Town 2:31
19. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit 2:58
20. Louis Armstrong - Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen 4:50

CD THREE - Bossa Nova 1958-1963:
1. Oscar Peterson - On The Street Where You Live 5:34
2. Ella Fitzgerald - Mack The Knife 4:44
3. Terry Gibbs - Let's Do it 3:03
4. Gerry Mulligan - I'm Gonna Go Fishin' 5:53
5. Ella Fitzgerald - How High The Moon 7:07
6. Roy Eldridge - Bossa Nova 2:44
7. Ella Fitzgerald - Mr. Paganini 4:04
8. Ella Fitzgerald - Cry Me A River 4:15
9. Jimmy Smith - Walk On The Wild Side 5:56
10. Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Desafinado 2:02
11. Jimmy Smith - Ol' Man River 3:58
12. Blossom Dearie - Teach Me Tonight 2:40
13. Terry Gibbs - The Hippie Twist 2:33
14. Ella Fitzgerald - Desafinado 2:11
15. Stan Getz - Manha De Carnaval (Morning Of Carnival) 5:48
16. Jimmy Smith - Hobo Flats 4:45
17. Ella Fitzgerald - Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home 3:24
18. Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfa - Sambalero 2:10
19. Bill Evans - On Broadway 2:32
20. Kai Winding - More (Theme From Mondo Cane) 2:01

CD FOUR - Goldfinger 1963-1965:
1. Bill Evans - Theme From The V.I.P.'s 2:24
2. Jimmy Smith - What'd I Say 2:52
3. Jimmy Smith - Theme From Any Number Can Win 2:13
4. The Oscar Peterson Trio - Hymn To Freedom 5:25
5. Antonio Carlos Jobim - Corcovado 2:26
6. Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald - Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall 3:20
7. Wynton Kelly - If That's The Way You Want It 2:38
8. Kai Winding - Mondo Cane #2 1:54
9. Jimmy Smith - Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf 9:27
10. Stan Getz - Blowin' in the Wind 2:32
11. João Gilberto, Stan Getz - The Girl From Ipanema 2:48
12. Ella Fitzgerald - Hello Dolly 2:53
13. Louis Armstrong - Makin' Whoopee 3:56
14. Jimmy Smith, Lalo Schifrin - The Cat 3:25
15. Lalo Schifrin - Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 3:52
16. Ella Fitzgerald - Ringo Beat 1:48
17. Donald Byrd - You've Been Talkin' 'Bout Me Baby 2:40
18. Cal Tjader - Soul Sauce 2:26
19. Jimmy Smith - Goldfinger 2:48
20. Astrud Gilberto - Agua De Beber 2:17

CD FIVE - Bumpin' On Sunset 1965-2001:
1. Jimmy Smith - Organ Grinder's Swing 2:14
2. Kenny Burrell - Loie 3:18
3. Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald - Imagine My Frustration 4:50
4. Willie Bobo - Spanish Grass 2:48
5. Wes Montgomery - Goin' Out Of My Head 2:14
6. Jimmy Smith - Got My Mojo Workin' 8:01
7. The Bill Evans Trio - Pavane 3:58
8. Jimmy Smith - Hoochie Coochie Man 5:59
9. Wes Montgomery - Bumpin' On Sunset 4:50
10. Willie Bobo - Sunshine Superman 2:57
11. Wes Montgomery - California Dreaming 3:08
12. Astrud Gilberto - Dindi 2:43
13. Willie Bobo - Evil Ways 2:40
14. Chico O'Farrill - Manteca 2:47
15. Jimmy Smith - Chain Of Fools 5:01
16. Don Sebesky - The Word 3:48
17. Kenny Burrell - The Preacher 2:59
18. Lalo Schifrin - Agnus Dei 4:19
19. Stan Getz - Communications '72 2:30
20. Diana Krall - The Look Of Love 4:41

CD ALBUM BOX SET  
Recording Artist Various-Jazz
Product Title The Sound Of America: The Singles Collection
Product Information Various-Jazz The Sound Of America: The Singles Collection UK CD Album Box Set.
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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