VA - Let's Do It! 60 years of Verve Records (2016)

It’s January 1956, and Norman Granz, jazz impresario, founder of Clef and Norgran Records, decided to start a new label – he called it Verve Records. So this year it's Verve Records 60th anniversary and we want to celebrate this most iconic of jazz labels. n the last 60 years Verve made some of the finest jazz records ever released, and in the process probably got more people listening to jazz than any other record label. This was thanks to the likes of Ella, Louis Armstrong, and in the earlty 1960s the Bossa nova jazz made popular by Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Astrud Gilberto.

TRACKLIST

CD1

01. Oscar Peterson Trio - C Jam Blues
02. Louis Armstrong - Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)
03. Dizzy Gillespie & Stan Getz - I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
04. Diana Krall - The Look of Love
05. Stan Getz, Astrud & João Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema
06. Kenny Burrell - Loie
07. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - They Can't Take That Away From Me
08. John Scofield - Green Tea
09. Johnny Hodges - In A Sentimental Mood
10. Stan Getz & Gerry Mulligan - That Old Feeling
11. Bill Henderson & The Oscar Peterson Trio - The Lamp Is Low
12. Ben Webster - Soulville

CD2

01. Herbie Hancock - Mercy Street
02. Milt Jackson & The Oscar Peterson Trio - On Green Dolphin Street
03. Nicholas Payton - Zigaboogaloo
04. Kenny Rankin - Spanish Harlem
05. Kenny Barron - Cook's Bay
06. Tal Farlow - Meteor
07. Jimmy Smith - The Cat
08. Michael Brecker - Sometimes I See
09. Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster - Blues for Yolande
10. Cal Tjader - Soul Sauce

CD3

01. Trombone Shorty - Hurricane Season
02. Count Basie - April In Paris
03. Anita O'Day - You're The Top
04. Regina Carter - Oh, Lady Be Good!
05. Joe Henderson - I Loves You Porgy
06. Russell Malone - Loved Ones
07. Wayne Shorter & Herbie Hancock - Aung San Suu Kyi
08. Ella Fitzgerald - Manhattan
09. Wes Montgomery - Bumpin' On Sunset
10. Sonny Stitt & Gene Ammons - Counter Clockwise
11. Mark Whitfield - Businessman's Bounce
12. Roy Eldridge - Bugle Call Rag

CD4

01. Marc Johnson - Summer Running
02. Roy Hargrove - You Go To My Head
03. John McLaughlin - My Romance
04. Billie Holiday - Speak Low
05. Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Desafinado
06. Blossom Dearie - Rhode Island Is Famous For You
07. Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond - Standstill
08. Lester Young & Teddy Wilson - Love Me Or Leave Me
09. Arthur Prysock - Autumn In New York
10. Bill Evans - 'Round About Midnight
11. David Sanborn - Comin' Home Baby
12. Melody Gardot - Worrisome Heart
13. Oscar Peterson Trio - Hymn To Freedom