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Essential Jazz, Over 150 Great Performances

Genre: Jazz

Style: Big Band, Hard Bop, Bop, Easy Listening, Swing

Country: UK

Label(s): Prism Leisure (PLATBX 865J)

01. Billie Holiday - You Go to My Head

01. Charlie Parker - Just Friends

01. Dave Brubeck - Take Five

01. Frank Sinatra - All of Me

01. Jacques Loussier - Air on a G String

01. Louis Armstrong - On the Sunny Side of the Street

01. Sarah Vaughan - Stormy Weather

01. Tony Bennett - I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face

02. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin'

02. Benny Goodman - Stompin' at the Savoy

02. Dizzy Gillespie - It's the Talk of the Town

02. Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Armstrong - April in Paris

02. Nat King Cole - Mona Lisa

02. Oscar Peterson - Stairway to the Stars

02. Wynton Marsalis - A Wheel Within a Wheel

02. Wynton Marsalis - My Funny Valentine

03. Al Jarreau - One Note Samba

03. Billie Holiday - Blue Moon

03. Duke Ellington - Sophisticated Lady

03. Ella Fitzgerald - Oh, Lady Be Good

03. Frank Sinatra - Saturday Night

03. Nat King Cole - (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66

03. Ray Charles - Georgia on My Mind

03. Stan Getz - Too Marvelous for Words

04. Benny Goodman feat. Peggy Lee - Why Don't You Do Right?

04. Ella Fitzgerald - How High the Moon

04. Frank Sinatra - Sweet Lorraine

04. Herbie Hancock - Jammin' with Herbie

04. Herbie Hancock - Soul Power

04. Louis Armstrong - When It's Sleepy Time Down South

04. Miles Davis - Boplicity

04. Miles Davis - Whispering

05. Buddy Greco - Me and Mrs. Jones

05. Charlie Shavers' All American Five - Ela Salon De Gutbucket

05. Frankie Laine and Jo Stafford - Basin Street Blues

05. Glenn Miller - String of Pearls

05. Mel Tormé - Night and Day

05. Nat King Cole - It's Only a Paper Moon

05. Quincy Jones - Exodus

05. Sonny Rollins - Every Time We Say Goodbye

06. Artie Shaw - Begin the Beguine

06. Benny Goodman - All the Cats Join In

06. Dinah Washington - There's Got to Be a Chance

06. Frank Sinatra - One for My Baby (And One for the Road)

06. Glenn Miller - Tuxedo Junction

06. Kay Starr - Stardust

06. Miles Davis - Out of Nowhere

06. Stan Getz - Heartplace

07. Ahmad Jamal - It's the Good Life

07. Billie Holiday - These Foolish Things

07. Jack Jones - You've Changed / 'Round Midnight

07. Lester Young - She's Funny That Way

07. Nat King Cole - I'm Thru with Love

07. Ray Charles - I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

07. Tony Bennett - Blue Velvet

07. Woody Herman & His Orchestra - Four Brothers

08. Dexter Gordon - I Should Care

08. Duke Ellington - Perdido

08. Duke Ellington - Take the 'A' Train

08. Ella Fitzgerald - I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good

08. Lester Young - Midnight Symphony

08. Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald - Dream a Little Dream of Me

08. Mel Tormé - It Happened in Monterey

08. Quincy Jones - Osie's Oasis

09. Benny Goodman with Martha Tilton - And the Angels Sing

09. Frank Sinatra - S'Posin'

09. Glenn Miller - American Patrol

09. Glenn Miller - In the Mood

09. John Coltraine - Traneing In

09. Kai Winding - Never Let Me Go

09. Louis Armstrong - Ain't Misbehavin'

09. Willie "The Lion" Smith - Finger Buster

10 Al Jarreau - Ain't No Sunshine

10 Ben Webster - Blue Skies

10 Benny Goodman - Jersey Bounce

10 Billie Holiday - I'll Be Seeing You

10 Count Basie Orchestra - Jumpin' at the Woodside

10 Lena Horne - Can't Help Lovin' That Man

10 Mel Tormé - I Got the Sun in the Morning

10 Stan Getz - Stan's Mood

11 Glenn Miller - Little Brown Jug

11 Glenn Miller - Rhapsody in Blue

11 Lena Horne - Love at Last

11 Louis Jordan - Caldonia

11 Sarah Vaughan - Lover Man

11 Sarah Vaughan - Summertime

11 Stéphane Grappelli - Have You Met Miss Jones

11 The Keiles Jazz Band - Black Orpheus

12 Billie Holiday - Solitude

12 Charles Mingus - Fables of Faubus

12 Chick Corea - Moment's Notice

12 Dinah Washington - Mixed Emotions

12 Erroll Garner - Over the Rainbow

12 Jimmy Hamilton - Satin Doll

12 Nat King Cole - When I Take My Sugar to Tea

12 Stan Kenton - The Peanut Vendor

13 Al Jarreau - Come Rain or Come Shine

13 Dave Brubeck - Indiana

13 Dinah Washington - Embraceable You

13 Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli - Sweet Georgia Brown

13 Ella Fitzgerald - The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)

13 Erroll Garner - I Surrender Dear

13 Herbie Hancock - Herbie's Blues

13 Louis Armstrong with Ella Fitzgerald - Tenderly

14 Buddy Rich with Lionel Hampton - I'll Never Be the Same

14 Charlie Parker - Bird of Paradise

14 Charlie Parker - Ko-Ko

14 Charlie Parker - Parker's Mood

14 Charlie Parker - The Bird

14 Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Jordan - Peetootie Pie

14 Ella Fitzgerald - Angel Eyes

14 Miles Davis - My Old Flame

15 Buddy Greco - Love Won't Let Me Wait

15 Carol Sloane - Misty

15 Coleman Hawkins - Body and Soul

15 Dave Brubeck - Blue Rondo 'A La Turk

15 Dizzy Gillespie - Hot House

15 Frank Sinatra - That Old Black Magic

15 Ray Charles - Can't You See Darling

15 Tony Bennett - Anything Goes

16 Carol Sloane - As Time Goes By

16 Dizzy Gillespie S-tet - Blue 'N' Boogie

16 George Benson - The Masquerade Is Over

16 Gerry Mulligan - Blight of the Fumble Bee

16 Louis Armstrong - A Kiss to Build a Dream On

16 Mel Tormé - I Can't Give You Anything but Love

16 Stan Kenton - Opus in Pastels

16 Wynton Marsalis - One by One

17 Astrud Gilberto - Far Away

17 Dinah Washington with Lionel Hampton and His Septet - Blow Top Blues

17 Erroll Garner Trio - Laura

17 Erroll Garner - I'm in the Mood for Love

17 Oscar Peterson - A Ghost of a Chance

17 P.J. Witherspoon - Summertime

17 Thelonious Monk - Monk's Mood

17 Thelonious Monk - Ruby, My Dear

18 Billie Holiday - That Ole Devil Called Love

18 Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - I Can't Get Started

18 Nat King Cole - I'm Lost

18 Ray Charles - I'm Glad for Your Sake

18 Stan Getz - Indian Summer

18 Stan Kenton - Intermission Riff

18 The Keiles Jazz Band - Watermelon Man

18 Tony Bennett - Chicago

19 Billy Eckstine - In the Still of the Night

19 Chick Corea - Sea Breeze

19 Fats Waller - It's a Sin to Tell a Lie

19 Sarah Vaughan - What a Difference a Day Made

19 Sonny Stitt - Sonny's Blues

19 Stan Kenton - Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy

19 Woody Herman with Mary Ann McCall - Detour Ahead

20 Count Basie Orchestra - One O'Clock Jump

20 Dizzy Gillespie - Tin Tin Deo

20 Lena Horne - When I Fall in Love

20 Louis Armstrong - Mahogany Hall Stomp

20 Sarah Vaughan - It Might As Well Be Spring

20 Thelonious Monk - 'Round Midnight

21 Duke Ellington - It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

21 The Keiles Jazz Band - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel

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