A Look at the Sound of RCA Jazz (1995)

About this title: In the '90s, RCA's jazz department had its hands in different pieces of the jazz pie -- everything from new hard bop and post-bop recordings to new NAC/smooth jazz releases to reissues of big-band swing hits of the '30s and '40s. So when RCA assembled this jazz-oriented compilation in 1995, there was a lot to choose from. By 1995, RCA had been recording jazz for 78 years; in 1917, RCA Victor released the first official jazz single when it put out the Original Dixieland Jazz Band's recording of "Livery Stable Blues." Allegedly, cornetist Buddy Bolden recorded a cylinder in 1898, but that ... read more

Tracks:

1. Style Is Coming Back in Style [Leiber/Stoller]
2. Afternoon in Paris [Lewis]
3. Great Grandmother's Song [Hart]
4. Nasté [Ayers/Clay]
5. Do You Feel What I'm Feeling?
6. The Bare Necessities [Gilkyson]
7. Dreamin' [Miller]
8. Caravan [Ellington/Mills/Tiz]
9. Don't Explain [Herzog/Holiday]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.