Various: Ultimate Jazz Piano Collection - 10CD

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CD1

Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz

1. Come Rain Or Come Shine (H. Arlen, J. Mercer)

2. Autumn Leaves (J. Mercer, J. Kosma, J. Prevert)

3. Witchcraft (C. Coleman, C. Leigh)

4. When I Fall In Love (V. Young, E. Heyman)

5. Periës Scope (B. Evans)

6. What Is This Thing Called Love (C. Porter)

7. Spring Is Here (R. Rodgers, L. Hart)

8. Someday My Prince Will Come (F. Churchill, L. Morey)

9. Blue In Green (M. Davis, B. Evans)

Bill Evans (piano), Scott LaFaro (bass), Paul Motian (drums)

Recorded in New York City on December 28, 1959

Duke Ellington - The Duke Plays Ellington

10. In a Sentimental Mood (Ellington, Mills, Manny Kurtz)

11. Things Ainët What They Used to Be (Mercer Ellington)

12. Re ections in D

13. Who Knows?

14. Melancholia

15. All Too Soon (Ellington, Carl Sigman)

16. Prelude to a Kiss (Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills)

17. B Sharp Blues

18. Passion Flower (Billy Strayhorn)

19. Janet

20. Retrospection

21. Dancers in Love

All compositions by Duke Ellington except as indicated

Duke Ellington (piano), Wendell Marshall (bass), Butch Ballard (drums)

Recorded at Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, California, on April 13 & April 14

CD2

Lennie Tristano - Tristano

1. Line Up

2. Requiem

3. Turkish Mambo

4. East Thirty-Second

5. These Foolish Things

(Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey)

6. You Go to My Head (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie)

7. If I Had You (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro)

8. I Donët Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You?

(Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young)

9. All the Things You Are (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern)

All songs composed by Lennie Tristano except as indicated

1-4: Lennie Tristano (piano), Peter Ind (bass), Jeff Morton (drums)

Recorded at Lennie Tristanoës home studio, New York, 1954-1955

5-9: Lennie Tristano (piano), Lee Konitz (alto saxophone), Gene Ramey

(bass), Art Taylor (drums) Recorded at The Sing-Song Room, Confucius

Restaurant, New York, June 11, 1955

Thelonious Monk - Piano Solo

10. Round About Midnight

11. Re ections

12. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Jerome Kern)

13. Well You Neednët

14. Portrait Of An Ermite

15. Mangan?se

16. Eronel

17. Off Minor

All compositions by Thelonious Monk except as indicated

Thelonious Monk (piano)

Recorded in Paris on June 7, 1954

CD3

Phineas Newborn - Fabulous Phineas

1. Sugar Ray

2. Whatës New (Burke/ Haggart)

3. Pamela

4. Forty-Five Degree Angle (Best)

5. No Moon At All (Evans/ Mann)

6. Iëll Remember April (Raye/ DePaul)

7. Cherokee (Noble)

8. Back Home

Composed by Phineas Newborn, Jr. except as indicated

Phineas Newborn Jr. (piano), Calvin Newborn (guitar), George Joyner (bass)

Denzil Best (drums)

Recorded in New York City, March 28 & April 3, 1958

Mary Lou Williams - Plays In London

1. Titoros (Davis)

2. They Canít Take That Away From Me (Gershwin/ Gershwin)

3. Round About Midnight (Monk)

4. Perdido (Tizol)

5. Kool Bongo (Williams)

6. For You (Dubin/ Burke)

7. Donít Blame Me (Fields/ McHugh)

8. Lady Bird (Dameron)

Mary Lou Williams (piano), Ken Nipper (bass), Allan Ganley (drums)

Tony Scott (bongos)

Recorded in London Jan 22, 1953

CD4

Bud Powellís Moods

1. Parisian Thoroughfare

2. Oblivion

3. Dusk in Sandi

4. Hallucinations

5. The Fruit

6. Tea for Two (Youmans, Caesar)

7. Hallelujah!? (Youmans, Robin, Grey)

8. The Last Time I Saw Paris? (Kern, Hammerstein II)

9. Just One of Those Things? (Porter)

10. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square?

(Sherwin, Strachey, Maschwitz)

All songs were written by Bud Powell except as indicated

Recorded in New York on July 1, 1950 (band) and on February 1951 (solo)

Bud Powell (piano), accompanied by Ray Brown (bass), Buddy Rich (drums)

Oscar Peterson - Tenderly

11. Debut (Peterson)

12. They Didnët Believe Me (Kern/ Reynolds/ Rourke)

13. Lover, Come Back to Me (Hammerstein/ Romberg)

14. Where or When (Hart/ Rodgers)

15. Three OëClock in the Morning (Robledo/ Terriss)

16. All the Things You Are (Hammerstein/ Kern)

17. Tenderly (Gross/ Lawrence)

18. Oscarës Blues (Peterson)

19. Little White Lies (Peterson)

20. In the Middle of a Kiss (Coslow)

21. Nameless (Peterson)

22. Two Sleepy People (Carmichael/ Loesser)

Oscar Peterson (piano) in duets with Ray Brown or Major Holley (bass)

Recorded March, 1950/ May 8, 1950

CD5

Erroll Garner - Contrasts

1. You Are My Sunshine (Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell)

2. Iëve Got the World on a String (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)

3. 7-11 Jump (Erroll Garner)

4. Part Time Blues (Garner)

5. Rosalie (Cole Porter)

6. In a Mellow Tone (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler)

7. Donët Worry ÇBout Me (Rube Bloom, Koehler)

8. (All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings

(Jean Marie Blanvillain, Henri Herpin, Harold Rome)

9. Thereës a Small Hotel (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers)

10. Misty (Garner)

11. Iëve Got to Be a Rug Cutter (Ellington)

Erroll Garner (piano), Wyatt Ruther (bass), Candido Camero (perc.)

Fats Heard (drums)

Recorded July 27, 1954

Ramsey Lewis Trio - Down To Earth

(Plays MUSIC From The Soil)

12. Dark Eyes (Traditional)

13. Come Back to Sorrento (Traditional)

14. Soul Mist (Ramsey Lewis)

15. John Henry (Traditional)

16. Greensleeves (Traditional)

17. We Blue It (Eldee Young, Ramsey Lewis, Red Holt)

18. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

19. Suzanne (Traditional)

20. Billy Boy (Traditional)

21. Decisions (Eldee Young)

Ramsey Lewis (piano), Eldee Young (bass), Redd Holt (drums)

Recorded Nov./Dec. 1958

CD6

Tommy Flanagan Trio - Overseas

1. Relaxinë at Camarillo (Parker)

2. Chelsea Bridge (Strayhorn)

3. Eclypso

4. Beatës Up

5. SkÂl Brothers

6. Little Rock

7. Verdandi

8. Delarna

9. Willow Weep for Me (Ronell)

Composed by Tommy Flanagan except as indicated

Tommy Flanagan (piano), Wilbur Little (bass), Elvin Jones (drums)

Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden, August 15, 1957

CD7

Red Garland - Alone

1. When Your Lover Has Gone (Swan)

2. These Foolish Things (Link, Marvell, Strachey)

3. My Last Affair (Haven Johnson)

4. You Are Too Beautiful (Hart, Rodgers)

5. I Got It Bad (And That Ainët Good) (Ellington, Webster)

6. The Nearness of You (Carmichael, Washington)

7. Nancy (With the Laughing Face) (Silvers, VanHeusen)

8. When I Fall in Love (Heyman, Young)

Red Garland (piano)

Recorded April 2, 1960 at Van Gelder Studio

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

CD8

Dave Brubeck - Jazz At Oberlin

1. The Way You Look Tonight (Kern/ Fields)

2. How High The Moon (Lewis)

3. These Foolish Things (Marvell/ Link)

4. Perdido (Tizol)

5. Stardust (Carmichael/ Parish)

Dave Brubeck Quartet ? Dave Brubeck (piano), Paul Desmond (alto sax)

Lloyd Davis (drums), Ron Crotty (bass)

Recorded in Finney Chapel, Oberlin College, March 2, 1953

Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims

1. Just Blues (Sims)

2. Violets For Your Furs (Adair/ Dennis)

3. Down Home (Lloyd)

4. Almost Like Being In Love (Lerner/ Loewe)

5. Wee Dot (Johnson/ Parker)

6. Too Close For Comfort (B^ck/ Holofcener/ Weiss)

Jutta Hipp (piano, Zoot Sims (tenor sax), Jerry Lloyd (trumpet)

Ahmed Abdul-Malik (bass), Ed Thigpen (drums)

Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, on July 29, 1956

CD9

Freddie Redd - Music From The

Connection

1. Who Killed Cock Robin?

2. Wigginí

3. Music Forever

4. Time To Smile

5. Theme For Sister Salvation

6. Jim Dunnís Dilemma

7. O.D

Composed by Freddie Redd

Freddie Redd (piano), Jackie McLean (alto sax), Michael Mattos (bass)

Larry Ritchie (drums)

Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

on February 15, 1960

Walter Davis Jr. - Davis Cup

1. Smake It

2. Loodle-Lot

3. Sweetness

4. Rhumba Nhumba

5. Minor Mind

6. Millieís Delight

Composed by Walter Davis, Jr

Walter Davis, Jr. (piano), Donald Byrd (trumpet), Jackie McLean (alto sax)

Sam Jones (bass), Art Taylor (drums)

Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

on August 2, 1959

CD10

Sonny Clark - Sonnyís Crib

1. With a Song in My Heart (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)

2. Speak Low (Kurt Weill)

3. Come Rain or Come Shine (Harold Arlen)

4. Sonnyës Crib

5. News for Lulu

All compositions by Sonny Clark except as indicated

Sonny Clark (piano), Donald Byrd (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone)

John Coltrane (tenor sax), Paul Chambers (bass), Art Taylor (drums)

Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey

on September 1, 1957