Les Triomphes du jazz

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Annotation

Notes

This huge (20 disc) boxset (Fitzgerald only has one disc) was sold in French malls (Carrefour) - note an international edition existed at some point.
To some extent, this was carefully compiled and is not as indecent as the look suggests...
Still a Reader's Digest like bundle, though...

Recording Dates

1: 1936
2-5: 1937
6: 1940
7-8: 1941
9: 1938
10-12: 1939
13: 1943
14-17: 1945
18-20: 1946
21-22: 1947
23-25: 1949

Annotation last modified on 2011-07-07 16:40 UTC.

Tracklist

CD 1: Louis Armstrong
CD 2: Sidney Bechet
CD 3: Duke Ellington
CD 4: Count Basie
CD 5: Glenn Miller et son orchestre
CD 6: Ella Fitzgerald
CD 7: Billie Holiday
CD 8: Django Reinhardt avec Stéphane Grappelli
CD 9: Dizzy Gillepsie & Miles Davis
CD 10: Charlie Parker
CD 11: Coleman Hawkins & Lester Young
CD 12: Lionel Hampton
CD 13: Fats Waller & Art Tatum
CD 14: New Orleans
CD 15: Trompettistes
CD 16: Saxophonistes
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1In The Mood To Be Wooed
Johnny Hodges3:00
2Cocktails For Two
Benny Carter3:03
3Ain't She Sweet
Willie “The Lion” Smith3:17
48:45 Stomp
Earl Bostic2:32
5Serenade To A Square
Sonny Stitt2:36
6The Eel
recording of:
The Eel
composer:
Bud Freeman
Bud Freeman3:20
7Blue And Sentimental
Herschel Evans3:12
8Sittin' In
Chu Berry2:11
9I Got It Bad
Ben Webster2:56
10September In The Rain
Don Byas2:57
11Go, Red, Go
Arnett Cobb2:37
12Blue Harlem
Ike Quebec4:34
13Just One More Chance
Lucky Thompson3:11
14Black Velvet
tenor saxophone:
Illinois Jacquet (on 1949-04-06)
recording of:
Black Velvet (on 1949-04-06)
composer:
Illinois Jacquet and Jimmy Mundy
Illinois Jacquet3:09
15It's The Talk Of The Town
recording of:
It’s the Talk of the Town
lyricist:
Al J. Neiburg (lyricist) and Marty Symes (lyricist)
composer:
Jerry Livingston (songwriter)
arranger:
Ib Glindemann
Gene Ammons2:53
16The Chase
recording of:
The Chase
composer:
Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray
Dexter Gordon & Wardell Gray6:33
17The Suburbanite
Al Sears2:28
18Sugar
Paul Gonsalves2:49
19Stompin' At The Savoy
Flip Phillips2:35
20Surgery
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis3:00
21Long Island Sound
Stan Getz2:12
22Autobahn
Sonny Rollins2:46
23Blue Serge
Serge Chaloff3:00
24Frustration
Harry Carney3:48
CD 17: Pianistes
CD 18: Grands Orchestres
CD 19: Petites Formations
CD 20: Chanteurs chanteuses