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REDISCOVER The '50s: Jazz

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A decade of innovations from Bebop to Hard Bop, Cool & The Shape of Jazz to Come. Cover: Art Blakey

86 SONGS • 9 HOURS AND 35 MINUTES

1Milestones2Moanin'3St. Thomas [feat. Tommy Flanagan & Doug Watkins & Max Roach]4Straight No Chaser5Autumn Leaves6So What7Take Five8Giant Steps9Goodbye Pork Pie Hat10Django11Peace Piece12Red Pepper Blues13On The Scene14Poinciana (Live At The Pershing, Chicago, 1958)15'Round Midnight16But Not For Me (Remastered 2000)17Naima18It Never Entered My Mind19Thelonious (Rudy Van Gelder 24-Bit Mastering / 1998 Digital Remaster)20The Genius Of Bud Powell: Just One Of Those Things21Con Alma (Album Version)22Brilliant Corners [feat. Sonny Rollins & Ernie Henry & Clark Terry]23Well You Needn't (Remastered)24Solar (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster)25Subconscious Lee26Stella By Starlight (EP Take/Digital Remaster/2004)27Finger Poppin' (Rudy Van Gelder Edition / Remastered)28Cotton Tail29The Third World30Freeway31Cherokee32Four (Album Version)33Stop Time (Remastered)34Pithecanthropus Erectus35Blues For Alice36Oleo (Remastered 2024)37Dancing In The Dark38Moon Dreams39Blue In Green (Take 3)40My One and Only Love41Sound Lee42Boplicity43Bags' Groove (RVG Remaster) [feat. Thelonious Monk & Milt Jackson & Kenny Clarke & Percy Heath]44Pent-Up House [feat. Clifford Brown & Max Roach & Richie Powell & George Morrow]45Surrey With The Fringe On Top46Theme For Ernie47Joy Spring48Freddie Freeloader49Night Train50Somethin' Else51Satin Doll (Live At The Whitney Museum/1972)52Good Bait (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster 1958)53If I Were A Bell54Coop De Grass55Line Up56Fontessa57Flamingo (Rudy Van Gelder/Remastered 2000)58Afrodisia (Remastered/Rudy Van Gelder Edition)59Afro Blue (Remastered)60Avila And Tequila61Nica's Dream62Airegin (Remastered 2009)63Hip Strut (Remastered)64Nostalgia In Times Square (1994  Remaster)65Jordu66Along Came Betty67Cool Struttin'68Blues Walk69Blue Train (Remastered 2003/Rudy Van Gelder Edition)70Lazy Bird (Alternate Take 1)71Walkin'72Fables of Faubus73You Get 'Cha74Fantail75Sandu76Deciphering The Message (Live) (Live At Cafe Bohemia, NY/1955 / Rudy Van Gelder Edition/2001)77April In Paris (Live at Sunset School, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA, September 1955)78Blue Monk (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York/1957)79Diminuendo In Blue (Live)80Split Kick (Live)81Haitian Fight Song82Almost Like Being In Love83Lonely Woman84Saturn85Chronology86Wallering (Album Version)