The Best Blue Note Album in the World Ever

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Album Description
The perfect introduction to jazz by the genre's most legendary record label! Founded in 1939, Blue Note was a pioneer in jazz's golden age, serving as a breeding ground for legends such as Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Art Blakey and Kenny Burrell. Even today the label continues building its legacy with contemporary acts like Norah Jones and Medeski, Martin & Wood. This single disc compilation offers the perfect introduction to both Blue Note and the genre for which this label became an unarguable mark of quality!

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The Best Blue Note Album in the World Ever
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Wonderful
  • Top of the Line Jazz (Even for the casual jazz fan)
  • Just what I was looking for!
 The Best Blue Note Album in the World Ever
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000JB1W
Release Date: 1999-08-31

Tracks:

  1. Song For My Father - Horace Silver
  2. Blue Train - John Coltrane
  3. Moanin' - Art Blakely And The Jazz Messengers
  4. Blues Walk - Lou Donaldson
  5. Autumn Leaves - Cannonball Adderley
  6. Midnight Blue - Kenny Burrell
  7. The Sidewinder - Lee Morgan
  8. Waltermelon Man - Herbie Hancock
  9. Amen - Donald Byrd
  10. Born To Be Blue - Grant Green

Tracks:

  1. Cantaloop - Us3
  2. The Turnaround - John Patton
  3. Greasy Granny - Charlie Hunter Trio
  4. Back At The Chicken Shack - Jimmy Smith
  5. Soy Califa - Dexter Gordon
  6. Girl From Ipanema - Eliane Elias
  7. Thinkin' About Your Body - Bobby McFerrin
  8. Tupelo Honey - Cassandra Wilson
  9. At Last - Lou Rawls/Dianne Reeves
  10. Because I Love You - Richard Elliot

Album Description

The perfect introduction to jazz by the genre's most legendary record label! Founded in 1939, Blue Note was a pioneer in jazz's golden age, serving as a breeding ground for legends such as Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Art Blakey and Kenny Burrell. Even today the label continues building its legacy with contemporary acts like Norah Jones and Medeski, Martin & Wood. This single disc compilation offers the perfect introduction to both Blue Note and the genre for which this label became an unarguable mark of quality!

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Wonderful.......2007-02-08

There are not many CDs like this in the world. A lot of the albums from which these songs are taken would be worth the purchase price of the whole album just because of the one song.

"Watermelon Man" for example is Herbie Hancock's most memorable song and one could never go wrong buying a whole Herbie Hancock album. Ditto for Horace Silver ("Song For My Father").

So, these are all songs from groundbreaking albums that have stood the test of time. What more could you want in a compilation CD?

(One more thing that is good-- though trivial-- is that the CD has a track listing printed on the CD itself if you are not a person that likes to keep CD covers. I'm not.)

This CD is even worth the purchase price NEW.

5 out of 5 stars Top of the Line Jazz (Even for the casual jazz fan).......2003-06-09

Though I've never been a big jazz fan, the intriguing title as well as the fact that I found this in the local library served to inspired me to give it a go. Basically I'd say that this is truly a great collection of vintage jazz from the Blue Note label. Whether it's the "greatest ever" I really couldn't say, but definitely top-notch in my book. Some of the highlight classics are Horace Silver's "Song For My Father", Herbie Hancocks's "Watermelon Man" and Jimmy Smith's "Back At the Chicken Shack" as well as a couple of excellent vocals by Cassandra Wilson and Lou Rawls. The only clunker is a ridiculous acapella by Bobby McFerrin called "Thinkin' About Your Body". Even if you somehow liked "Don't Worry, Be Happy", this one is sure to turn off all but the most fanatical McFerrin fan. In a nutshell, two thumbs up (As long as you skip over the McFerrin track)!

5 out of 5 stars Just what I was looking for!.......2001-07-26

This is the answer to my prayers! I've always wanted an album that just had one great Blue Note hit after another and here it is! Silver, Coltrane, Blakey, Us3, and more make this the quintessential Blue Note compilation. This album captures the essence of Blue Note Records to a tee and keeps kicking away with the "Class A" jazz for which they are famous.

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