Golden Age Of American Popular Music ~ The Jazz Hits from the Hot 100 - 1958-1966

Product Details

Artist : Various Artists
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0029667032520
Label : Ace
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2008-06-30
UPC : 029667032520

ASIN : B000A1QKQC

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Watermelon Man - Hancock, Herbie
2. Yeh Yeh - Santamaria, Mongo (1)
3. Comin' Home Baby - Torme, Mel
4. Desafinado - Getz, Stan & Charlie Byrd
5. Soul Sauce - Tjader, Cal
6. Like Young - Previn, Andre & David Rose
7. Walk On The Wild Side - Smith, Jimmy & The Big Band
8. Take Five - Brubeck, Dave Quartet
9. Sidewinder - Morgan, Lee
10. Swingin' Shepherd Blues - Koffman, Moe Quartette
11. In Crowd - Lewis, Ramsey Trio
12. Cast Your Fate To The Wind - Guaraldi, Vince Trio
13. African Waltz - Dankworth, John
14. Girl From Ipanema - Getz, Stan & Astrud Gilberto
15. Misty - Holmes, Richard 'Groove'
16. Shake A Lady - Bryant, Ray
17. Exodus - Harris, Eddie
18. Wack Wack - Young Holt Trio
19. Shampoo - McCann, Les
20. Greasy Spoon - Marr, Hank
21. Loop - Lytle, Johnny
22. I've Got A Woman - McGriff, Jimmy
23. Mercy Mercy Mercy - Adderley, Cannonball
24. Taste Of Honey - Feldman, Victor Quartet
25. Dawn - Rockingham, David Trio
26. El Watusi - Barretto, Ray Y Su Charanga Moderna
27. Topsy II - Cole, Cozy
28. Route 66 Theme - Riddle, Nelson

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Editorial Reviews

Album Description

* The Golden Age Of American Popular Music is fast-becoming as successful series as the Golden Age of American Rock'n'Roll. This spin-off from the main series is a collection of Jazz Hits from the core years of 1958-1966.

* Amazingly, no one has gathered together these hits on one CD before. Ace are the first to approach it unashamedly from a pop angle eschewing the consciously hip considerations that normally weigh down most jazz compilations.

* The brief has been slightly widened to include some hits from Billboard's "Bubbling Under" chart that was published as an adjunct to the Hot 100 in these years. However the genre was popular enough for us to include 15 Top 30 hits.

* Although some of the titles will be familiar to pop fans such as Dave Brubeck's `Take Five' or `The Girl From Ipanema' by Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto, as ever these are leavened by the much less familiar and sometimes quite rare. Ace have also insisted on the single versions of the tracks, which haven't been available elsewhere, such as Watermelon Man and The Sidewinder.

* The usual superb quality sound and lavishly illustrated booklet rounds off this release.

Customer Reviews

Cool as a mountain stream (2008-07-04)

Until now there's never been a comprehensive collection of what were the singles hits in Jazz in the 60s.It's a fascinating backwater of American popular music which began with the Dave Brubeck Quartet who put 5 titles on the top 100 with Take 5 as the biggest-and with music already about 3 years old.Possibly it began with the British-Chris Barber had a couple of hit singles in 1959 and was followed up to 1962 with Kenny Ball,Acker Bilk and Victor Feldman-whose groovy version of A taste of honey has never been made available on CD until now-this was recorded in the States at the same time as the vocal version by Lenny Welch.Another British item here is Johnny Dankworth's African Waltz which only bubbled under but other versions did nothing.The 1958 Swingin' Shepherd Blues by the Moe Koffman Quartet is a one off classic which was covered in the U K by the Ted Heath Band and this track is also on one of the Golden Age of Instrumentals so it passes as either jazz or rock'n'roll.Also from 1958-and another repeat from the G A of Is is Cozy Cole's Topsy,the first drums hit just before Sandy Nelson took the entire field over.1962 was the Bossa Nova era which saw Stan Getz with a hit single in Desafinado and 2 years later backing Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto on The girl from Ipanema.And the year of the Vince Guaraldi Trio whose Cast your fate to the wind was to become even bigger with the British version by Sounds Orchestral in the mid 60s.As this collection is called The Jazz Hits its not all instrumental as it includes Mel Torme's version of Comin' Home Baby but its only jazz because the tune started off as a jazz instrumental-its equally R & B as well.The Ramsey Lewis Trio began as straight ahead jazzmen until the era of Trini Lopez and Johnny Rivers saw a change of direction and a series of instrumentals of current chart hits.After it was over they splintered into the Young-Holt Trio and hit with Wack Wack in 1966 just about when the jazz instrumental hit came to a halt.There's plenty of organ led instrumentals here like Jimmy Smith's Walk on the wild side-which is nothing to do with Lou Reed-and Richard Grrove Holmes version of Misty.There's the vibes led Soul Sauce by the Cal Tjader Quintet,the sax led version of Exodus by Eddie Harris,a pre Georgie Fame version of Yeh Yeh by Mongo Santamaria and the famous Watermelon Man which only bubbled under-by future hitmaker Herbie Hancock.A great CD-a real Desert Island Disc

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