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Verve Records: The Sound of America - Various Artists (Vinyl 4LP Box Set)

33RPM 4LP Box Set
SKU: LDV54842
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Verve Records: The Sound of America Various Artists on 4LP Box Set: Featuring Recordings Made During the Norman Granz Era.

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.

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Track Listing

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 Street
  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 Torme - 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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