VA - The Mercury Records Jazz Story (2CD) @320

Mercury?s jazz division had two distinct and important fathers. John Hammond brought his expertise and connections when Mercury bought Keystone Records in the late 1940?s. And Mercury was the issuing company and distributor for Norman Granz?s pre-Norgran/Verve recordings. Although both Hammond and Granz had departed Mercury by the mid-50?s, they established the company in the jazz world. Mercury, under its Emarcy label, released LPs by many important post-swing and bebop artists including Clifford Brown and Max Roach, Clark Terry, Dinah Washington, Nat and Cannonball Adderley, Sarah Vaughn, Maynard Ferguson, Jimmy Cleveland, Herb Geller and others. By the early 1960?s, Mercury was releasing jazz under the flagship label and was an early leader in the new stereo sound releases. Highlights of the early and mid-60?s included albums by Quincy Jones, Buddy Rich, Cannonball Adderley, Charles (then called Charlie) Mingus, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Max Roach and others. In the early 1950?s, Norman Granz started his own record company, Norgran, which later became Verve. In an ironic twist, both Mercury and Verve are now owned by Universal Music Group and Mercury?s jazz library falls under the Verve division. Since the early 1990?s, Verve has reissued many Mercury jazz titles on CD, often taking care to use original master tapes and including session material not included on the original LPs. In addition, Mosaic Records in Stamford CT has issued several box sets spotlighting the Mercury and Verve recordings of various artists including Max Roach, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie and Buddy Rich. ~ Disc 1 01. Gene Ammons - Idaho 02. Muggsy Spanier - Feather Brain 03. Dinah Washington - I Cried For You 04. Paul Quinichette - I'll Always Be In Love With You 05. Ben Webster - The Iron Hat 06. Paul Gonsalves - Don't Blame Me 07. Art Blakey - Eleanor 08. Art Madigan - Moroccan Blues 09. Helen Merrill - 's Wonderful 10. Erroll Garner - I've Got To Be A Rug Cutter 11. Gerry Mulligan - Demanton 12. Clifford Brown & Max Roach - Flossie Lou 13. Max Roach - Love Letters 14. Cannonball Adderley - Hoppin' John 15. Max Roach - My Old Flame 16. Sarah Vaughn - Three Little Words 17. Eddie South - I Hadn't Anyone Till You 18. John Coltrane - Weaver Of Dreams 19. Conte & Pete Candoll - Willow Weep For Me 20. Buddy Rich - Indiana ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disc 2 01. Charles Mingus - Take the 'A' Train - Exactly Like You 02. Quincy Jones - The Midnight Sun Will Never Set 03. Al Cohn & Zoot Sims - Improvisation for Unaccompanied Saxaphones 04. Coleman Hawkins & Sol Yaged - I Can't Get Started 05. Pete Rugolo - Struttin' with Some Barbecue 06. George Wein - Sugar 07. Buddy DeFranco & Tommy Gumina - Scrapple from the Apple 08. Julius Watkins - Mood Inidgo 09. Terry Gibbs - The Big Cat 10. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - 3-in-1 Without the Oil 11. Art Farmer - Rain Check 12. Art Hodes & Truck Parham - Washboard Blues 13. Woody Herman - El Toro Grande 14. Oscar Peterson - Squeaky's Blues 15. Art Blakey - Waltz for Ruth 16. Lee Konitz - Blues For Bird 17. Dizzy Gillespie - Groovin' High 18. Paul Bley - Kid Dynamite 19. Jimmy Smith - Sometimes I'm Happy Recorded from June 19, 1947 to July 1977. Label: Polygram Rec. Date: 1995 BITRATE: 320 My cd-rips (EAC and Lame) Covers Included Enjoy,Seed and Share

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