Various - Verve Records: The Sound Of America - New 4 LP Record Box Set 2026 Verve Vinyl - Blues / Jazz / Folk / Spoken Word
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Various - Verve Records: The Sound Of America
VERVE RECORDS: THE SOUND OF AMERICA / VARIOUS As an independent record producer going back to the early 1940s, Norman Granz started building a personal network of record companies - disc by disc, artist by artist, innovation by innovation - that grew into a tsunami by the time he sold Verve Records at the end of 1960. It remains a feat unmatched to this day. This 4-LP box set celebrates the fascinating spectrum of recordings made during the Norman Granz era of Verve Records. It includes vocal tracks by Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday; Charlie Parker with strings; a raucous live jam session; Beatnik poetry by Jack Kerouac and stand-up comedy.
1. Jazz at the Philharmonic — Blues
2. Coleman Hawkins — Picasso
3. Oscar Peterson — Tenderly
4. Bud Powell — Like Someone in Love
5. Count Basie and His Orchestra — New Basie Blues
6. Johnny Hodges — Castle Rock
7. Andre’s All Stars — Con Poco Coco
8. Lionel Hampton and Stan Getz — Louise
9. Lester Young and Teddy Wilson — Taking a Chance on Love
10. The JATP Quintet — Easy Living
11. Benny Carter — Flamingo
12. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong — You Won’t Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)
13. Art Tatum — I’ll Never Be the Same
14. Roy Eldridge — Dale’s Wail
15. Lionel Hampton — That Old Black Magic, Part 1
16. Charlie Parker — Laura 300
17. Jam Session #1 — Ballad Medley All the Things You Are/Dearly Beloved/The Nearness of You/I’ll Get By/Everything Happens to M
18. Jack Kerouac — The Subterraneans
19. Mort Sahl — The Future Lies Ahead — excerpt
20. Jonathan Winters — Football Game
21. Shelley Berman — Department Store
22. Count Basie and Joe Williams — Thou Swell
23. Spike Jones and His City Slickers — Cocktails for Two
24. Margaret Whiting — Why Was I Born?
25. Mel Tormé — On the Street Where You Live
26. Anita O’Day — Lullaby of the Leaves
27. Bing Crosby and Buddy Bregman — Blue Room
28. Billie Holiday — I Thought About You
29. Ella Fitzgerald — Chelsea Bridge — rehearsal
30. Fred Astaire — No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)
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