4053796005021

Best Jazz Albums Of 1956

Various Artists

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Cat No: 600502

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Release Date:  01 March 2019

Label:  Documents

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  10

Barcode:  4053796005021

Genres:  Jazz  

  • Description

    The year 1956 finally brought the breakthrough of the long-playing record format for jazz. On the one hand, record labels were able to re-market their catalog by reassembling and republishing older sessions originally pressed on the 10-inch format, on the other hand, the longer playing time per LP-side finally give the musicians more freedom in regards to the structure of their compositions and the length of their improvisations.



    The 20 original albums from 1956 collected here are mainly new releases, however, recorded in 1955 and 1956. The wide ranging musical spectrum from Duke Ellington via Billie Holiday or Stan Getz to Thelonious Monk and Charlie Mingus (both Mingus and Monk reached a larger audience for the first time that year), makes it clear that jazz developed in a multi-stylistic way during that time and all these musicians, whether playing hot or cool, Swing or Hardbop, created great classics whose emotionality, intensity, creativity and charisma are still among the best jazz history has to offer today.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Miles Davis - The Serpent's Tooth I
      • 2. Miles Davis - The Serpent's Tooth II
      • 3. Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight
      • 4. Miles Davis - Compulsion
      • 5. Miles Davis - No Line
      • 6. Miles Davis - Vierd Blues
      • 7. Miles Davis - In Your Own Sweet Way
      • 8. Miles Davis, Milt Jackson Quintet/Sextet - Dr. Jackle
      • 9. Miles Davis, Milt Jackson Quintet/Sextet - Bitty Ditty
      • 10. Miles Davis, Milt Jackson Quintet/Sextet - Minor March
      • 11. Miles Davis, Milt Jackson Quintet/Sextet - Changes

      Disc 2

      • 1. The Jazz Messengers - Soft Winds
      • 2. The Jazz Messengers - The Theme
      • 3. The Jazz Messengers - Minor's Holiday
      • 4. The Jazz Messengers - Alone Together
      • 5. The Jazz Messengers - Prince Albert
      • 6. Cannonball Adderley - Dog My Cats
      • 7. Cannonball Adderley - I'm Glad There Is You
      • 8. Cannonball Adderley - Blues For Bohemia
      • 9. Cannonball Adderley - Junior's Tune
      • 10. Cannonball Adderley - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
      • 11. Cannonball Adderley - Casa De Marcel
      • 12. Cannonball Adderley - Little Girl Blue
      • 13. Cannonball Adderley - T's Tune
      • 14. Cannonball Adderley - Broadway At Basin Street
      • 15. Cannonball Adderley - Just Norman
      • 16. Cannonball Adderley - I Don't Care

      Disc 3

      • 1. Duke Ellington - Summertime
      • 2. Duke Ellington - Laura
      • 3. Duke Ellington - I Can't Get Started
      • 4. Duke Ellington - My Funny Valentine
      • 5. Duke Ellington - Everything But You
      • 6. Duke Ellington - Frustration
      • 7. Duke Ellington - Cotton Tail
      • 8. Duke Ellington - Day Dream
      • 9. Duke Ellington - Deep Purple
      • 10. Duke Ellington - Indian Summer
      • 11. Duke Ellington - Blues
      • 12. The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop - Pithecanthropus Erectus
      • 13. The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop - A Foggy Day
      • 14. The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop - Profile Of Jackie
      • 15. The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop - Love Chant

      Disc 4

      • 1. Billie Holiday - Lady Sings The Blues
      • 2. Billie Holiday - Trav'lin' Light
      • 3. Billie Holiday - I Must Have That Man
      • 4. Billie Holiday - Some Other Spring
      • 5. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
      • 6. Billie Holiday - No Good Man
      • 7. Billie Holiday - God Bless The Child
      • 8. Billie Holiday - Good Morning Heartache
      • 9. Billie Holiday - Love Me Or Leave Me
      • 10. Billie Holiday - Too Marvelous For Words
      • 11. Billie Holiday - Willow Weep For Me
      • 12. Billie Holiday - I Thought About You
      • 13. Sarah Vaughan - Over The Rainbow
      • 14. Sarah Vaughan - Soon
      • 15. Sarah Vaughan - Cherokee
      • 16. Sarah Vaughan - I'll Never Smile Again
      • 17. Sarah Vaughan - Don't Be On The Outside
      • 18. Sarah Vaughan - How High The Moon
      • 19. Sarah Vaughan - It Shouldn't Happen To A Dream
      • 20. Sarah Vaughan - Sometimes I'm Happy
      • 21. Sarah Vaughan - Maybe
      • 22. Sarah Vaughan - An Occasional Man
      • 23. Sarah Vaughan - Why Can't I
      • 24. Sarah Vaughan - Oh My

      Disc 5

      • 1. Stan Getz - Indiana
      • 2. Stan Getz - Without a Song
      • 3. Stan Getz - I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You
      • 4. Stan Getz - I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
      • 5. Stan Getz - Everything Happens to Me
      • 6. Stan Getz - Over the Rainbow
      • 7. Stan Getz - Get Happy
      • 8. Stan Getz - Jeepers Creepers
      • 9. Dave Brubeck - Swing Bells
      • 10. Dave Brubeck - Walkin' Line
      • 11. Dave Brubeck - In Your Own Sweet Way
      • 12. Dave Brubeck -Part Contention
      • 13. Dave Brubeck - Weep No More
      • 14. Dave Brubeck - The Duke
      • 15. Dave Brubeck - When I Was Young
      • 16. Dave Brubeck - One Moment Worth Years
      • 17. Dave Brubeck - The Waltz

      Disc 6

      • 1. Johnny Hodges, The Ellington All-Stars - Ah Oodie Oobie
      • 2. Johnny Hodges, The Ellington All-Stars - Meet Mr. Rabbit
      • 3. Johnny Hodges, The Ellington All-Stars - Duke's In Bed
      • 4. Johnny Hodges, The Ellington All-Stars - Just Squeeze Me
      • 5. Johnny Hodges, The Ellington All-Stars - Ballade For The Very Sad And Very Tired Lotus Eaters
      • 6. Johnny Hodges, The Ellington All-Stars - Confab With Rab
      • 7. Johnny Hodges, The Ellington All-Stars - It Had To Be You
      • 8. Johnny Hodges, The Ellington All-Stars - Black And Tan Fantasy
      • 9. Johnny Hodges, The Ellington All-Stars - Take The "A" Train
      • 10. Thelonious Monk - It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
      • 11. Thelonious Monk - Sophisticated Lady
      • 12. Thelonious Monk - I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
      • 13. Thelonious Monk - Black And Tan Fantasy
      • 14. Thelonious Monk - Mood Indigo
      • 15. Thelonious Monk - I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
      • 16. Thelonious Monk - Solitude
      • 17. Thelonious Monk - Caravan

      Disc 7

      • 1. Chet Baker, Bobby Jaspar - How About You
      • 2. Chet Baker, Bobby Jaspar - Once In A While
      • 3. Chet Baker, Bobby Jaspar - Cheketah
      • 4. Chet Baker, Bobby Jaspar - Alone Together
      • 5. Chet Baker, Bobby Jaspar - Chet
      • 6. Chet Baker, Bobby Jaspar - Dinah
      • 7. Chet Baker, Bobby Jaspar - Tasty Pudding
      • 8. Chet Baker, Bobby Jaspar - Anticipated Blues
      • 9. Chet Baker, Bobby Jaspar -Line
      • 10. Kenny Burrell - This Time The Dream's On Me
      • 11. Kenny Burrell - Fugue 'N Blues
      • 12. Kenny Burrell - Takeela
      • 13. Kenny Burrell - Weaver Of Dreams
      • 14. Kenny Burrell - Delilah
      • 15. Kenny Burrell - Rhythmorama
      • 16. Kenny Burrell - Blues For Skeeter

      Disc 8

      • 1. Gerry Mulligan - Funhouse
      • 2. Gerry Mulligan - Ide's Side
      • 3. Gerry Mulligan - Roundhouse
      • 4. Gerry Mulligan - Kaper
      • 5. Gerry Mulligan - Bweebida Bobbida
      • 6. Gerry Mulligan - Mullenium
      • 7. Gerry Mulligan - Mulligan's Too
      • 8. John Coltrane, Hank Mobley - Weejah
      • 9. John Coltrane, Hank Mobley - Polka Dots And Moonbeams
      • 10. John Coltrane, Hank Mobley - On It
      • 11. John Coltrane, Hank Mobley - Avalon

      Disc 9

      • 1. Oscar Peterson - Debut
      • 2. Oscar Peterson - They Didn't Believe Me
      • 3. Oscar Peterson - Lover Come Back To Me
      • 4. Oscar Peterson - Where Or When
      • 5. Oscar Peterson - Three O' Clock In The Morning
      • 6. Oscar Peterson - All The Things You Are
      • 7. Oscar Peterson - Tenderly
      • 8. Oscar Peterson - Oscar's Blues
      • 9. Oscar Peterson - Little White Lies
      • 10. Oscar Peterson - In The Middle Of A Kiss
      • 11. Oscar Peterson - Nameless
      • 12. Oscar Peterson - Two Sleepy People
      • 13. Dizzy Gillespie - The Champ
      • 14. Dizzy Gillespie - Birk's Works
      • 15. Dizzy Gillespie - Caravan
      • 16. Dizzy Gillespie - Time On My Hands
      • 17. Dizzy Gillespie - On The Sunny Side Of The Street
      • 18. Dizzy Gillespie - Tin Tin Deo
      • 19. Dizzy Gillespie - Stardust
      • 20. Dizzy Gillespie - They Can't Take That Away From Me
      • 21. Dizzy Gillespie - The Bluest Blues
      • 22. Dizzy Gillespie - Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
      • 23. Dizzy Gillespie - Ohh-Shoo-Be-Doo-Bee

      Disc 10

      • 1. Modern Jazz Quartet - Versailles (Porte De Versailles)
      • 2. Modern Jazz Quartet - Angel Eyes
      • 3. Modern Jazz Quartet - Fontessa
      • 4. Modern Jazz Quartet - Over The Rainbow
      • 5. Modern Jazz Quartet - Bluesology
      • 6. Modern Jazz Quartet - Willow Weep For Me
      • 7. Modern Jazz Quartet - Woodyn You
      • 8. Horace Silver - Cool Eyes
      • 9. Horace Silver - Shirl
      • 10. Horace Silver - Camouflage
      • 11. Horace Silver - Enchantment
      • 12. Horace Silver - Senor Blues
      • 13. Horace Silver - Virgo
      • 14. Horace Silver - For Heaven's Sake