32 Gems from 32 Jazz (1999)

About this title: Taking material from the '60s through the '90s, mostly from the vaults of the Muse and Landmark imprints, 32 Gems From 32 Jazz is an excellent three-disc sampler of the mainstream jazz label's catalog holdings and a fitting celebration of its first three years of existence. Nearly every major straight-ahead jazz style from that period is represented, from hard bop and hints of "outside" improvisation to funky soul-jazz and bluesy grooves, making it a great introductory survey to one of the best catalogs outside of Blue Note and Original Jazz Classics. Just some of the many stellar musicians ... read more

Tracks:

1. When Your Lover Has Gone [Swan]
2. Doin' That Thing [Live] [Vinnegar]
3. Mo's Theme [Bargad]
4. My Romance [Rodgers/Hart]
5. Cap'n Jack [McDuff]
6. All the Things You Are [Kern/Hammerstein]
7. Iron City [Green]
8. Blue Seven [Rollins]
9. Sunny [Live] [Hebb]
10. Shana [Newman]
11. The Great City [Lewis]
12. Naima [Live] [Coltrane]
13. Tetragon [Henderson]
14. The Free Slave [Brooks]
15. Blue in Green [Evans]
16. Turkish Women at the Bath [LaRoca]
17. Theme for Malcolm [Brown]
18. It Feels So Good [Live]
19. Ruby, My Dear [Live] [Monk]
20. Passion Dance [Tyner]
21. Oleo [Rollins]
22. Broadway [Wood/McRae/Bird]
23. Body and Soul [Eyton/Green/Heyman/]
24. It's All Right With Me [Porter]
25. In Walked Bud [Monk]
26. Bar Wars [Jackson]
27. Scrapple from the Apple [Live] [Parker]
28. Blues to Be There [Ellington/Strayhorn]
29. Blues in the Guts [Live] [Walrath]
30. Bloomdido [Parker]
31. Constellation [Parker]
32. Song for My Father [Live] [Silver]

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