Verve Records: The Sound of America 4LP Box Set 1
Verve Records: The Sound of America 4LP Box Set 2
Genre: Jazz
Label: Verve
Format: 33RPM,

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Verve Records: The Sound of America 4LP Box Set

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SKU:
VERLP15484
UPC:
600574154842
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4LP Box Set of Recordings Made During the Norman Granz Era!

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As an independent record producer going back to the early 1940s, Norman Granz started building a personal network of record companies – disc by disc, artist by artist, innovation by innovation – that grew into a tsunami by the time he sold Verve Records at the end of 1960. It remains a feat unmatched to this day.

This 4-LP box set celebrates the fascinating spectrum of recordings made during the Norman Granz era of Verve Records. It includes vocal tracks by Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday; Charlie Parker with strings; a raucous live jam session; Beatnik poetry by Jack Kerouac and stand-up comedy.

Features

  • 4LP Box Set

Selections

LP 1

Side 1:
  1. Jazz at the Philharmonic — Blues
  2. Coleman Hawkins — Picasso
  3. Oscar Peterson — Tenderly
  4. Bud Powell — Like Someone in Love
Side 2:
  1. Count Basie and His Orchestra — New Basie Blues
  2. Johnny Hodges — Castle Rock
  3. Andre's All Stars — Con Poco Coco
  4. Lionel Hampton and Stan Getz — Louise

LP 2

Side 1:
  1. Lester Young and Teddy Wilson — Taking a Chance on Love
  2. The JATP Quintet — Easy Living
  3. Benny Carter — Flamingo
  4. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong — You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)
  5. Art Tatum — I'll Never Be the Same
Side 2:
  1. Roy Eldridge — Dale's Wail
  2. Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt — On the Sunny Side of the Stree
  3. Lionel Hampton — That Old Black Magic, Part 1
  4. The Modern Jazz Quartet — D & E Blues

LP 3

Side 1:
  1. Charlie Parker — Laura
  2. Jam Session #1 — Ballad Medley: All the Things You Are / Dearly Beloved / The Nearness of You / I'll Get By / Everything Happens to Me / The Man I Love / What's New? / Someone to Watch Over Me / Isn't It Romantic
Side 2:
  1. Jack Kerouac — The Subterraneans
  2. Mort Sahl — The Future Lies Ahead — excerpt
  3. Jonathan Winters — Football Game
  4. Shelley Berman — Department Store

LP 4

Side 1:
  1. Count Basie and Joe Williams — Thou Swell
  2. Spike Jones and His City Slickers — Cocktails for Two
  3. Rose Murphy — You Were Meant for Me
  4. Buddy Rich — Can't We Be Friends?
  5. Woody Herman — I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
  6. Margaret Whiting — Why Was I Born?
Side 2:
  1. Mel Tormé — On the Street Where You Live
  2. Anita O'Day — Lullaby of the Leaves
  3. Bing Crosby and Buddy Bregman — Blue Room
  4. Billie Holiday — I Thought About You
  5. Ella Fitzgerald — Chelsea Bridge — rehearsal
  6. Fred Astaire — No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)

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