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
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1I Can't Get Started
Dizzy Gillespie & His All Stars3:07
2Be Bop
Dizzy Gillespie & His All Stars3:07
3Groovin' High
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet2:40
4All the Things You Are
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet2:46
5Salt Peanuts
Dizzy Gillespie & His All Stars3:14
6Diggin' for Diz
Tempo Jazzmen2:50
7Dynamo A
double bass:
Ray Brown (jazz bassist) (on 1946-02-06)
drums (drum set):
Stan Levey (on 1946-02-06)
electric guitar:
Arvin Garrison (on 1946-02-06)
piano:
Al Haig (on 1946-02-06)
tenor saxophone:
Lucky Thompson (on 1946-02-06)
trumpet:
Dizzy Gillespie (on 1946-02-06)
vibraphone:
Milt Jackson (on 1946-02-06)
recording of:
Dynamo A (on 1946-02-06)
composer:
Dizzy Gillespie
Tempo Jazzmen3:02
8Fifty Second Street Theme
Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra3:09
9Night in Tunisia
recording of:
Night in Tunisia (instrumental)
composer:
Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Paparelli
publisher:
Universal‐MCA Music Publishing (US)
Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra3:06
10Anthropology
recording of:
Anthropology
composer:
Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker (a.k.a. “Bird”, jazz alto saxophonist)
Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra2:35
11Oop-Bop-Shbam
recording of:
Oop-Bop Sh’Bam
writer:
Gil Fuller (jazz composer & arranger) and Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra2:59
12Things to Come
recording of:
Things to Come
composer:
Walter “Gil” Fuller (jazz composer & arranger) and Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra2:45
13Ow
Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra2:51
14Oop-Pop-A-Da
recording of:
Oop-Pop-A-Da
composer:
Babs Gonzales
Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra3:07
15Mantega
recording of:
Manteca
composer:
Walter “Gil” Fuller (jazz composer & arranger), Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo
publisher:
Music Sales Corporation (American copyright holder in both popular and classical music) and Twenty-Eighth Street Music
Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra3:02
16Two Bass Hit
recording of:
Two Bass Hit
composer:
Dizzy Gillespie and John Lewis (pianist, member of Modern Jazz Quartet)
Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra4:04
17Milestones
Miles Davis All Stars2:36
18Little Willie Leaps
Miles Davis All Stars2:52
19Half Nelson
Miles Davis All Stars2:45
20Sippin' at Bells
Miles Davis All Stars2:23
21Move
Miles Davis and His Orchestra2:33
22Jeru
Miles Davis and His Orchestra3:11
23Budo
Miles Davis and His Orchestra2:35
24Godchild
Miles Davis and His Orchestra3:08
25Boplicity
Miles Davis and His Orchestra2:59
26Israel
Miles Davis and His Orchestra2:15
▶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
▶CD 17: Pianistes
▶CD 18: Grands Orchestres
▶CD 19: Petites Formations
▶CD 20: Chanteurs chanteuses