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Annotation

A 168-CD box, divided into 42 sets à 4 CDs in Sitofy cases. Each set has its own catalog #, ranging from 22757-382 to 22798-382, with /A-D added for CDs 1-4, respectively. Each CD is called "Menu" here and is dedicated to one musician or band, who mostly appears in different collaborations.

Includes two 180-page books with artist biographies.

Set 01-09: "Classic Jazz - Ragtime - Dixieland"
Set 10-16: "Blues"
Set 17: "Boogie Woogie"
Set 18-32: "Swing to Bebop - Modern Jazz"
Set 33-37: "Big Band"
Set 38-42: "Vocalists"

Annotation last modified on 2014-08-22 21:23 UTC.

Tracklist

1▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Scott Joplin
2▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Original Dixieland Jazz Band
3▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – New Orleans Rhythm Kings
4▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – King Oliver
5▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Jelly Roll Morton
6▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Duke Ellington
7▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Bix Beiderbecke
8▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Buster Bailey
9▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Johnny Dodds
10▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Louis Armstrong
11▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Luis Russell
12▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Red Nichols
13▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – McKinney’s Cotton Pickers
14▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Jack Teagarden
15▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – J.C. Higginbotham
16▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Benny Carter
17▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Clarence Williams
18▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Fletcher Henderson
19▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Jabbo Smith’s Rhythm Aces
20▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – the Rhythmakers
21▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Sidney Bechet
22▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Washboard Rhythm Kings
23▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Mezz Mezzrow
24▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Pee Wee Russell
25▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Muggsy Spanier
26▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Bud Freeman
27▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Eddie Condon Dixieland All‐Stars
28▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – George Wettling
29▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Lu Watters
30▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Bobby Hackett
31▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Edmond Hall
32▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Barney Bigard
33▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Kid Ory
34▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Wilbur de Paris
35▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – George Lewis Ragtime Jazzband of New Orleans
36▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Louis Armstrong [Louis Armstrong and His All‐Stars]
37▶CD: Blues – Bessie Smith
38▶CD: Blues – Ma Rainey
39▶CD: Blues – Mississippi John Hurt
40▶CD: Blues – Tampa Red
41▶CD: Blues – T‐Bone Walker
42▶CD: Blues – Josh White
43▶CD: Blues – Blind Willie McTell
44▶CD: Blues – Big Bill Broonzy
45▶CD: Blues – Leadbelly
46▶CD: Blues – Big Joe Williams
47▶CD: Blues – Robert Johnson
48▶CD: Blues – Kokomo Arnold
49▶CD: Blues – John Lee Williamson [Sonny Boy Williamson]
50▶CD: Blues – Sonny Terry
51▶CD: Blues – Sleepy John Estes
52▶CD: Blues – Brownie McGhee
53▶CD: Blues – Memphis Slim
54▶CD: Blues – Muddy Waters
55▶CD: Blues – Big Boy Crudup [Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup]
56▶CD: Blues – Big Joe Turner
57▶CD: Blues – Roosevelt Sykes
58▶CD: Blues – Lightnin’ Hopkins
59▶CD: Blues – John Lee Hooker
60▶CD: Blues – Johnny Otis
61▶CD: Blues – B.B. King
62▶CD: Blues – Jimmy Witherspoon
63▶CD: Blues – Howlin’ Wolf
64▶CD: Blues – Ray Charles
65▶CD: Boogie Woogie – Albert Ammons
66▶CD: Boogie Woogie – Meade “Lux” Lewis
67▶CD: Boogie Woogie – Pete Johnson
68▶CD: Boogie Woogie – the Big Band Boogie Woogie
69▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang
70▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Fats Waller
71▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Coleman Hawkins
72▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Art Tatum
73▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Ben Webster
74▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Django Reinhardt [Quintette Du Hot club de France]
75▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Benny Goodman
76▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Roy Eldridge
77▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Earl “Fatha” Hines
78▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lester Young
79▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Teddy Wilson
80▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Benny Carter
81▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lionel Hampton
82▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charlie Shavers [John Kirby and His Onyx club Boys]
83▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charlie Christian
84▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Dexter Gordon
85▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Erroll Garner
86▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Slam Stewart
87▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Wardell Gray
88▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lucky Thompson
89▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Don Byas
90▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Illinois Jacquet
91▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charlie Parker
92▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Dizzy Gillespie
93▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis
94▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lennie Tristano
95▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Thelonious Monk
96▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Fats Navarro
97▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – George Shearing
98▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Gene Ammons
99▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Sonny Stitt
100▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Bud Powell
101▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lee Konitz
102▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Miles Davis
103▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Zoot Sims
104▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Herbie Mann
105▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – James Moody
106▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Stan Getz
107▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Dave Brubeck
108▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – the Modern Jazz Quartet
109▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Jay Jay Johnson [J. J. Johnson]
110▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Gerry Mulligan
111▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Sonny Rollins
112▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Paul Quinichette
113▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Art Pepper
114▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Shorty Rogers
115▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Horace Silver
116▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Chet Baker
117▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Bud Shank
118▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Clifford Brown
119▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charlie Parker
120▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Barney Kessel
121▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lou Donaldson
122▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Art Farmer
123▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Tal Farlow
124▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charles Mingus
125▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Dizzy Gillespie
126▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Phil Woods
127▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Jackie McLean & Donald Byrd
128▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – the Jazz Messengers [Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers]
129▶CD: Big Bands – Bennie Moten
130▶CD: Big Bands – Jimmie Lunceford
131▶CD: Big Bands – Fletcher Henderson
132▶CD: Big Bands – Chick Webb
133▶CD: Big Bands – Benny Goodman
134▶CD: Big Bands – Tommy Dorsey
135▶CD: Big Bands – Harry James
136▶CD: Big Bands – Earl “Fatha” Hines [Earl Hines and His Orchestra]
137▶CD: Big Bands – Count Basie
138▶CD: Big Bands – Artie Shaw
139▶CD: Big Bands – Glenn Miller
140▶CD: Big Bands – Bunny Berigan
141▶CD: Big Bands – Gene Krupa
142▶CD: Big Bands – Charlie Barnet
143▶CD: Big Bands – Erskine Hawkins
144▶CD: Big Bands – Lionel Hampton
145▶CD: Big Bands – Duke Ellington
146▶CD: Big Bands – Woody Herman
147▶CD: Big Bands – Stan Kenton
148▶CD: Big Bands – Shorty Rogers
149▶CD: Vocalists – the Boswell Sisters
150▶CD: Vocalists – the Mills Brothers
151▶CD: Vocalists – Billie Holiday
152▶CD: Vocalists – Mildred Bailey
153▶CD: Vocalists – Ivie Anderson
154▶CD: Vocalists – Ella Fitzgerald
155▶CD: Vocalists – the Andrews Sisters
156▶CD: Vocalists – Lena Horne
157▶CD: Vocalists – Anita O’Day
158▶CD: Vocalists – Billy Eckstine
159▶CD: Vocalists – Peggy Lee
160▶CD: Vocalists – Nat King Cole
161▶CD: Vocalists – June Christy
162▶CD: Vocalists – Frank Sinatra
163▶CD: Vocalists – Dinah Washington
164▼CD: Vocalists – Mel Tormé
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1I Got the Sun in the Morning
recording of:
I Got the Sun in the Morning (from “Annie Get Your Gun”) (on 1946-04-30)
lyricist and composer:
Irving Berlin
part of:
Annie Get Your Gun
Mel Tormé3:01
2It Happened in Monterey (feat. Mel Tormé)
recording of:
It Happened in Monterey (in 1946)
lyricist:
Billy Rose (lyricist and Broadway producer)
composer:
Mabel Wayne
publisher:
CBS Feist Catalog, Inc. and EMI United Partnership Ltd.
Sonny Burke and His Orchestra2:52
3Born to Be Blue (feat. Mel Tormé)
recording of:
Born to Be Blue (on 1946-06-04)
writer:
Mel Tormé (“The Velvet Fog”) and Robert Wells (songwriter)
publisher:
Arc Music Corp. (U.S. rock & blues publisher), Jewel Music Publishing Co. Ltd. (publisher; do NOT use as release label) and PW 3 ASCAP Songs
sub-publisher:
BMG Rights Management (France) (not for release label use! file releases under its imprint BMG (2008–present)) (ended), Universal Music Publishing France (not for release label use!) and ロックンロール ミュージック (Rock ’n’ Roll Music)
Sonny Burke and His Orchestra2:40
4What Is This Thing Called Love
recording of:
What Is This Thing Called Love? (Wake Up and Dream musical revue) (on 1946-06-06)
lyricist and composer:
Cole Porter (composer) (in 1929)
publisher:
Harms, Inc., Warner Bros., Inc. (not for release label use!) and Warner/Chappell (Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.)
part of:
Wake Up and Dream (1929 revue)
Mel Tormé3:01
5Guilty
cover recording of:
Guilty (on 1946-09-19)
lyricist:
Gus Kahn
composer:
Harry Akst and Richard A. Whiting
Mel Tormé3:08
6Little White Lies
recording of:
Little White Lies (on 1947-11-16)
lyricist and composer:
Walter Donaldson
publisher:
Donaldson Publishing Co., Larry Spier Music LLC and Tobago Music Co.
Mel Tormé with Hal Mooney & His Orchestra3:00
7How High the Moon
recording of:
How High the Moon (on 1948-10-05)
lyricist:
Nancy Hamilton (in 1940)
composer:
Morgan Lewis (in 1940)
publisher:
Chappell (company that specialized in library and production music), Chappell & Co., Chappell & Co., Inc. (USA) and Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996)
sub-publisher:
ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., holding company – do not use as release label) and ワーナー・チャペル音楽出版 Synch事業部 (Warner/Chappell Music Japan K.K., Synch Division)
Mel Tormé2:22
8Blue Moon
vocals:
Mel Tormé (“The Velvet Fog”)
orchestra:
Pete Rugolo and His Orchestra
recording of:
Blue Moon (in 1949)
lyricist:
Lorenz Hart (in 1934)
composer:
Richard Rodgers (composer) (in 1934)
publisher:
EMI Catalogue Partnership, EMI Music Publishing (do not use as a release label!), EMI Robbins Catalog Inc. (ASCAP), EMI United Partnership Ltd., J. Albert & Son P/L, J. Albert & Son Pty. Ltd., Robbins Music Corporation, SBK United Partnership Ltd., フジパシフィックミュージック SBK事業部 (Fujipacific Music SBK Department) and ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., holding company – do not use as release label)
sub-publisher:
EMI Music Publishing Belgium NV and Francis Day Editions (SABAM)
part of:
New York, New York (1977 musical film soundtrack)
Mel Tormé3:13
9Stompin’ at the Savoy
recording of:
Stompin’ at the Savoy
lyricist:
Andy Razaf
composer:
Benny Goodman (clarinetist and bandleader), Edgar Sampson and Chick Webb
publisher:
EMI Robbins Catalog (ASCAP), Ragbag Music (ASCAP), Razaf Music, Rytvoc (ASCAP), フジパシフィックミュージック SBK事業部 (Fujipacific Music SBK Department) and ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., holding company – do not use as release label)
Mel Tormé2:34
10Do Do Do (feat. Mel Tormé)
recording of:
Do, Do, Do (on 1949-01-13)
lyricist:
Ira Gershwin
composer:
George Gershwin (composer)
part of:
Oh, Kay! (1926 musical)
Sonny Burke and His Orchestra2:29
11Sonny Boy
recording of:
Sonny Boy (on 1949-08-26)
lyricist and composer:
Lew Brown (in 1928-08), Buddy DeSylva (in 1928-08) and Ray Henderson (in 1928-08)
publisher:
Chappell & Co., Inc. (USA) (in 1928-08)
Mel Tormé with Frank DeVol and His Orchestra2:45
12Recipe for Romance (feat. Mel Tormé)
recording of:
Recipe for Romance (on 1950-08-11)
lyricist:
Roy Alfred (Tin Pan Alley lyricist and composer)
composer:
Marvin Fisher
Pete Rugolo and His Orchestra2:32
13It’s Too Late Now
Mel Tormé with Frank DeVol and His Orchestra3:14
14Got the Gate on the Golden Gate (feat. Hal Mooney and His Orchestra)
recording of:
Got the Gate on the Golden Gate
writer:
Mel Tormé (“The Velvet Fog”)
Mel Tormé & The Mel‐Tones3:34
15Cross Your Heart
recording of:
Cross Your Heart (on 1949-12-19)
writer:
Buddy DeSylva and Lewis E. Gensler
Mel Tormé with Hal Mooney & His Orchestra2:39
16You’re a Heavenly Thing
recording of:
You're a Heavenly Thing (in 1951-10)
lyricist:
Joe Young (US lyricist)
composer:
Little Jack Little
Mel Tormé2:32
17That Old Black Magic
recording of:
That Old Black Magic (on 1954-12-15)
lyricist:
Johnny Mercer (in 1942)
composer:
Harold Arlen (in 1942)
publisher:
Famous Chappell and Famous Music Corporation (renamed since 2007‐05 as Sony/ATV Harmony/Melody)
part of:
The 16th Academy Award for Best Original Song (number: 2)
Mel Tormé3:19
18Goody Goody
recording of:
Goody Goody (on 1954-12-15)
lyricist:
Johnny Mercer
composer:
Matty Malneck
publisher:
Chappell & Co., Inc. (USA), Malneck Music, The Johnny Mercer Foundation, WB Music Corp. (1929–2019), ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., holding company – do not use as release label) and ワーナー・チャペル音楽出版 Synch事業部 (Warner/Chappell Music Japan K.K., Synch Division)
Mel Tormé2:33
19Bewitched (feat. Mel Tormé)
recording of:
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Pal Joey) (on 1950-04-03)
lyricist:
Lorenz Hart (in 1940)
composer:
Richard Rodgers (composer) (in 1940)
publisher:
WB Music Group (ended), Chappell & Co., Inc. (USA), Imagem CV, Lorenz Hart Publishing Co., Warner/Chappell North America Limited (formerly incorporated as Marmalade Music Ltd., from 1968/09/19–1999/11/09) and Williamson Music Company
part of:
Pal Joey
Pete Rugolo and His Orchestra3:20
20It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) (feat. Mel Tormé)
recording of:
It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) (on 1954-08-02)
lyricist:
Irving Mills (in 1931)
composer:
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (Duke Ellington, US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) (in 1931-08)
publisher:
Duke Ellington Music and EMI Mills Music (ASCAP-affiliated)
part of:
The Real Book (compilation of jazz standards, Volume I)
George Cates & His Orchestra2:14
165▶CD: Vocalists – Sarah Vaughan
166▶CD: Vocalists – Ella Fitzgerald
167▶CD: Vocalists – Joe Williams
168▶CD: Vocalists – Billie Holiday