This two-disc set presents music from New York City's melting pot, 1945-1959. Includes tracks by Duke Ellington, Faye Adams, Louis Armstrong, Harry Belafonte, Nina Simone, John Cage, Horace Silver, New Lost City Ramblers, and more. Various performers. Originally recorded 1931-2007. Compact discs.
Contents:
disc 1. Take the "A" train (Duke Ellington) ; Bad (Cozy Cole) ; Why do fools fall in love (Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers) ; Mambo mucho mambo (Machito) ; Shake a hand (Faye Adams) ; Yellow dog blues (Louis Armstrong) ; Talking union (The Almanac Singers) ; Matilda (Harry Belafonte) ; Minnie the moocher (Cab Calloway) ; Coffee daddy blues (Danny Taylor) ; Manteca (Dizzy Gillespie) ; Little girl blue (Nina Simone) ; In the still of the night (The Five Satins) ; Autumn in New York (Billie Holiday) ; Summertime (Miles Davis & Gil Evans) ; Goodbye pork pie hat (Charles Mingus); Indeterminacy pt. 2 (John Cage) -- disc 2. Topsy II (Cozy Cole) ; Op (The Honeycones) ; Senor blues [Newport Jazz fest] (Horace Silver) ; Southern exposure (Josh White) ; How can a poor man stand such times and live? (The New Lost City Ramblers) ; Duncan and Brady (Dave Van Ronk) ; Custard pie blues (Sonny Terry) ; Money honey (The Drifters) ; Morning, noon and night (Big Joe Turner) ; Paradise Hill (The Embers) ; Twilight (The Paragons) ; One monkey don't stop no show (Big Maybelle) ; Brilliant corners (Thelonious Monk) ; Ripples (Raymond Scott) ; Howl (Allen Ginsberg).
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