Various Artists - Verve Records: The Sound of America - LP Box Set

4LP Box Set, Limited Edition, 140 Gram Vinyl

As an independent producer going back to the early 1940s, Norman Granz built a personal network of record companies disc by disc and artist by artist, growing it into a tsunami by the time he sold Verve at the end of 1960 — a feat unmatched to this day. This 4LP box celebrates the full spectrum of the Granz era: vocal sides from Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker with strings, a raucous live jam session, Beatnik poetry from Jack Kerouac and even stand-up comedy. The four LPs come in individual sleeves inside a two-piece lift-off box with Verve's period design, alongside a large-format twelve-page booklet.

Features

• 140-gram vinyl, 4LP box set — individual sleeves in a two-piece lift-off box
• Limited edition, with large-format 12-page booklet and liner notes
• Recordings from the Norman Granz era, 1944–1960
• Label: Verve

Track Listing

LP 1, Side One:

1. Jazz at the Philharmonic – Blues
2. Coleman Hawkins – Picasso
3. Oscar Peterson – Tenderly
4. Bud Powell – Like Someone in Love

LP 1, Side Two:

1. Count Basie and His Orchestra – New Basie Blues
2. Johnny Hodges – Castle Rock
3. Andre's All Stars – Con Poco Coco
4. Lionel Hampton and Stan Getz – Louise

LP 2, Side One:

1. Lester Young and Teddy Wilson – Taking a Chance on Love
2. The JATP Quintet – Easy Living
3. Benny Carter – Flamingo
4. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong – You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)
5. Art Tatum – I'll Never Be the Same

LP 2, Side Two:

1. Roy Eldridge – Dale's Wail
2. Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt – On the Sunny Side of the Street
3. Lionel Hampton – That Old Black Magic, Part 1
4. The Modern Jazz Quartet – D & E Blues

LP 3, Side One:

1. Charlie Parker – Laura
2. Jam Session #1 – Ballad Medley: All the Things You Are / Dearly Beloved / The Nearness of You / I'll Get By / Everything Happens to Me / The Man I Love / What's New? / Someone to Watch Over Me / Isn't It Romantic

LP 3, Side Two:

1. Jack Kerouac – The Subterraneans
2. Mort Sahl – The Future Lies Ahead (excerpt)
3. Jonathan Winters – Football Game
4. Shelley Berman – Department Store

LP 4, Side One:

1. Count Basie and Joe Williams – Thou Swell
2. Spike Jones and His City Slickers – Cocktails for Two
3. Rose Murphy – You Were Meant for Me
4. Buddy Rich – Can't We Be Friends?
5. Woody Herman – I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
6. Margaret Whiting – Why Was I Born?

LP 4, Side Two:

1. Mel Tormé – On the Street Where You Live
2. Anita O'Day – Lullaby of the Leaves
3. Bing Crosby and Buddy Bregman – Blue Room
4. Billie Holiday – I Thought About You
5. Ella Fitzgerald – Chelsea Bridge (rehearsal)
6. Fred Astaire – No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)