Visions of Jazz: A Musical Journey
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1998-09-22
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington
- Memphis Blues - Sidney Bechet, Art Hodes
- Mahogany Hall Stomp - George Lewis & His Ragtime Jazz Band
- You're Just in Love - Kay Starr
- Mr. Jelly Lord - Art Hodes
- Black Butterfly - Duke Ellington
- Out of Nowhere - Coleman Hawkins & His All Star Jam Band
- A-Tisket, A-Tasket - Fats Waller
- Bedlam - Benny Goodman
- Segue in C - Count Basie
- D.B. Blues - Lester Young
- Pennies from Heaven - Bobby Hackett Orchestra
- Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) - Frank Sinatra
- Passion Flower - Duke Ellington
- Passion Flower - Louie Bellson
- Night in Tunisia - Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker
- Goodnight Sweetheart - Sarah Vaughan
- Thelonious - Thelonious Monk
- Dance of the Infidels - Bud Powell
- Love for Sale - Dexter Gordon
- Boplicity - Miles Davis
- Detour Ahead - Billie Holiday
- Stop Time - Art Blakey, Horace Silver
- Odds Against Tomorrow - The Modern Jazz Quartet
- I Know That You Know - Nat King Cole
- Mosquito Knees - Stan Getz
- I Can't Get Started - Sonny Rollins
- Blue Skies - Art Tatum
- Tales (8 Whisps) - Cecil Taylor
- Blues Ain't Nothin' But a Woman Cryin' for Her Man - Dinah Washington
- Like Sonny - John Coltrane
- Serenade in Blue - Jimmy Rowles
- At the Cafe Central - Don Pullen
- Caban Bamboo Highlife - Randy Weston
- Death Letter - Cassandra Wilson
- I've Got the World on a String - Joe Lovano
- Eyes Have It - Geri Allen, Ornette Coleman
- Beautiful American - Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington
Music reviews of Visions of Jazz: A Musical Journey
Music Review: Not just another compilation
Rating: 5 Stars
Jazz has about 1,000 compilations per square foot, so it's understandable how this one has gone relatively unheralded. Yet it's one of the finest collections I've seen in years -- it has personality and coherence, and Giddins' choices are never faulty. Most of the major figures are represented, sometimes by obvious choices ("a night in tunisia" for parker/gillespie), sometimes by esoteric ones (billie holiday's "detour ahead", a previously unreleased Basie tune that just smokes). Underrated musicians -- Randy Weston, Don Pullen, Kay Starr -- take their places among the canonized, while avant-garde masters like Coleman and Taylor are given a good deal of room.It's ultimately a tribute to Giddins' wonderful, catholic tastes. If only he had had more influence on Ken Burns (I think we owe "Jazz's" relatively positive portrait of Ornette entirely to Giddins) than the neocon Marsalis, what a wonder Burns series could have been.
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