Both beginning and ending with tracks uniting Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Visions of Jazz: A Musical Journey is a two-disc set tracing the evolution of jazz. It hits most of the major artists -- Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane -- and even some major jazz vocalists, including Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and Cassandra Wilson. Though not all the tracks are necessarily of the best caliber by each artist, this is a good general introduction to America's most important musical form of the 20th century.
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Visions of Jazz: A Musical Journey
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AllMusic Review by John Bush
Track Listing - Disc 1
Sample | Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream | |||
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1 | Louis Armstrong / Duke Ellington | 03:59 | Amazon | ||||
2 | Sidney Bechet / Art Hodes | 02:57 | Amazon | ||||
3 | George Lewis & His Ragtime Jazz Band | 03:46 | Amazon | ||||
4 | Kay Starr | 03:25 | Amazon | ||||
5 | Art Hodes | 03:18 | Amazon | ||||
6 | Duke Ellington | 04:37 | Amazon | ||||
7 | Coleman Hawkins & His All Star Jam Band | 03:20 | Amazon | ||||
8 | Fats Waller | 02:35 | Amazon | ||||
9 | Benny Goodman | 03:06 | Amazon | ||||
10 | Count Basie | 08:16 | Amazon | ||||
11 | Lester Young | 03:01 | Amazon | ||||
12 | Bobby Hackett Orchestra | 02:53 | Amazon | ||||
13 | Frank Sinatra | 02:15 | Amazon | ||||
14 | Duke Ellington | 03:04 | Amazon | ||||
15 | Louie Bellson | 07:38 | Amazon | ||||
16 | Dizzy Gillespie / Charlie Parker | 02:46 | Amazon | ||||
17 | Sarah Vaughan | 05:15 | Amazon | ||||
18 | Thelonious Monk | 03:36 | Amazon | ||||
19 | Bud Powell | 03:02 | Amazon | ||||
20 | Dexter Gordon | 02:55 | Amazon |
Track Listing - Disc 2
Sample | Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream | |||
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1 | Miles Davis | 03:01 | Amazon | ||||
2 | Billie Holiday | 03:04 | Amazon | ||||
3 | Art Blakey / Horace Silver | 04:06 | Amazon | ||||
4 | The Modern Jazz Quartet | 03:35 | Amazon | ||||
5 | Nat King Cole | 02:30 | Amazon | ||||
6 | Stan Getz | 05:24 | Amazon | ||||
7 | Sonny Rollins | 04:30 | Amazon | ||||
8 | Art Tatum | 02:52 | Amazon | ||||
9 | Cecil Taylor | 07:14 | Amazon | ||||
10 | Dinah Washington | 03:48 | Amazon | ||||
11 | John Coltrane | 03:57 | Amazon | ||||
12 | Jimmy Rowles | 03:16 | Amazon | ||||
13 | Don Pullen | 06:54 | Amazon | ||||
14 | Randy Weston | 02:46 | Amazon | ||||
15 | Cassandra Wilson | 04:13 | Amazon | ||||
16 | Joe Lovano | 04:19 | Amazon | ||||
17 | Geri Allen / Ornette Coleman | 07:25 | Amazon | ||||
18 | Louis Armstrong / Duke Ellington | 03:09 | Amazon |