The Perfect Jazz Collection
~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 1 available)
Annotation
A remastered version of the original release, plus three previously unreleased alternate takes, and one alternate take supposedly released (#9-12).
Not clear exactly which one is it, and wether #9 is really an a.t. or an unedited version.
It's also unclear if this material was issued before in the Columbia boxset.
Recorded February - March 1966 in New York.
Drums – Charlie Persip (tracks: 15, 16), Jimmy Lovelace, Ray Lucas (tracks: 2, 3, 13)
Mastered By (Digitally) – Mark Wilder
Organ – Lonnie Smith
Producer – John Hammond
Reissue Producer – Didier C. Deutsch, Steve Berkowitz
Saxophone (Baritone) – Ronnie Cuber
Trumpet – Blue Mitchell (tracks: 15, 16)
Vocals, Guitar – George Benson
The Herbie Hancock Group
- Herbie Hancock: Fender Rhodes electric piano, Hohner D6 clavinet, ARP Odyssey synthesizer, ARP Soloist synthesizer, pipes.
- Bennie Maupin: soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, saxello, bass clarinet, alto flute.
- Paul Jackson: electric bass, marimbula.
- Bill Summers': congas, shekere, balafon, agogo, cabasa, hindewho, tambourine, log drum, surdo, gankoqui, beer bottle.
Notes
This release is known as the "track 1 slow fade" corrected speed version.
See the original for details.
Remastered edition of 1950's album, issued with additional alternate takes.
Label: Sony - Catalog #: 65144 - UPC: 074646514429
barcode/cat # entered in Edit #14383252 — way after release was originally added, and refers to a 25cd boxset The Perfect Jazz Collection: 25 Original Albums, of which this is apparently disc #6. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003IY49S4/
Annotation last modified on 2015-07-14 00:03 UTC.
Tracklist
| 1CD: Louis Armstrong - Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy |
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| 2CD: Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan in Hi-Fi |
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| 3CD: Art Blakey - The Jazz Messengers |
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| 4CD: Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin |
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| 5CD: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue | ||||
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| # | Title | Artist | Rating | Length |
| 1 | So What
| Miles Davis | 9:25 | |
| 2 | Freddie Freeloader
| Miles Davis | 9:49 | |
| 3 | Blue in Green
| Miles Davis | 5:38 | |
| 4 | All Blues
| Miles Davis | 11:36 | |
| 5 | Flamenco Sketches
| Miles Davis | 9:26 | |
| 6 | Flamenco Sketches (alternate take)
| Miles Davis | 9:32 | |
| 6CD: The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out |
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| 7CD: Duke Ellington & Count Basie - The Count Meets the Duke |
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| 8CD: Helen Merrill - Parole e musica |
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| 9CD: Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods |
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| 10CD: Chet Baker - Chet Is Back! |
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| 11CD: The Thelonious Monk Quartet - Monk's Dream |
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| 12CD: Sonny Rollins - Sonny Meets Hawk! |
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| 13CD: Martial Solal - At Newport '63 |
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| 14CD: Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan - Two of a Mind |
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| 15CD: Benny Goodman - Together Again! |
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| 16CD: George Benson - It's Uptown |
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| 17CD: Nina Simone - Sings the Blues |
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| 18CD: Art Tatum - Piano Starts Here |
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| 19CD: Erroll Garner - Concert by the Sea |
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| 20CD: Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters |
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| 21CD: Stan Getz - The Best of Two Worlds |
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| 22CD: Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius |
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| 23CD: Weather Report - Heavy Weather |
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| 24CD: Wynton Marsalis - Standard Time, Volume 1 |
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| 25CD: Charlie Parker - Bird |
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Credits
Release
| art direction: | Howard Fritzson |
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| design/illustration: | Randall Martin (US art director, graphic designer, and illustrator) |
| photography: | Don Hunstein (photographer) Jay Maisel (photographer) Sandy Speiser |
| additional liner notes: | Robert Palmer (English singer‐songwriter) |
| liner notes: | Bill Evans (pianist) Pat Metheny Scott H. Thompson (in 1992) |
| mixer and mastering: | Charles Harbutt (sound engineer and reissue producer) |
| additional engineer: | Ted Brosnan Ted Hammond |
| engineer: | David Palmer (Engineer) Fred Plaut Don Puluse |
| additional producer: | Bob Belden |
| producer: | George Avakian (US 1940-90s record producer) Bobby Colomby Herbie Hancock (US jazz pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer) Teo Macero David Rubinson Irving Townsend Ben Young (producer, jazz historian, radio host, engineer) |
| recording engineer: | Mickey Crofford Ray Hall (engineer) Fred Plaut |
| agogô, balafon, cabasa, congas, gankogui, percussion [beer bottle], shekere, slit drum [log drum], surdo and tambourine: | Bill Summers |
| alto flute, bass clarinet, saxophone [saxello], soprano saxophone and tenor saxophone: | Bennie Maupin |
| alto saxophone: | Paul Desmond |
| bass: | Eugene Wright (bass) |
| double bass: | Robert Hurst (jazz bassist composer) |
| electric upright bass and marímbula: | Paul Jackson (jazz bassist) |
| membranophone: | Harvey Mason (jazz drummer) Joe Morello Jeffrey “Tain” Watts (jazz drummer) |
| piano: | Dave Brubeck Marcus Roberts (American jazz pianist) |
| Rhodes piano [Fender Rhodes electric piano], clavinet [Hohner D6 clavinet], other instruments [pipes] and synthesizer [ARP Odyssey synthesizer] and synthesizer [ARP Soloist synthesizer]: | Herbie Hancock (US jazz pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer) |
| trumpet: | Wynton Marsalis |
| remaster of: | Monk’s Dream by Thelonious Monk Monk’s Dream by The Thelonious Monk Quartet Nina Simone Sings the Blues by Nina Simone |
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| Discogs: | https://www.discogs.com/release/3509725 [info] |
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| ASIN: | UK: B003IY49S4 [info] US: B000P46Q18 [info] US: B000002AIT [info] US: B0012GN2GA [info] US: B0013DCCS6 [info] US: B00000269G [info] FR: B003IY49S4 [info] |
| other databases: | https://www.musik-sammler.de/release/731762/ [info] |
Release group
| part of: | The Perfect Collection / La Discothèque idéale (order: 2) |
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