The 'ultimate label sampler' disc: Blue Note

[fange]

A simple brief - put together a playlist of songs that would fit onto a single CD (you can go for a double if you have the energy), that best represent the most essential, best or simply your most loved songs of the Blue Note label. Does that mean sales success, musical vision, or a combination of both? You decide, and feel free to explain why.

[clive gash]

Bump

[naughty boy]

lazy pair o bastards

[Walk In My Shadow]

[pcqgod]

[fange]

I'd argue that - as great as it is - this album isn't even HM's best set, let alone Blue Note's.

[fange]

fange's Blue Note Essentials - Disc 1

1. Horace Silver - 'Sister Sadie' (6:20)
2. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - 'Dat Dere' (8:45)
3. Kenny Dorham - 'Afrodisia' (5:05)
4. Sonny Clark - 'Blue Minor' (10:17)
5. Hank Mobley - 'No Room For Squares' (6:56)
6. Lee Morgan - 'The Sidewinder' (10.26)
7. Joe Henderson - 'Mode For Joe' (8:00)
8. John Coltrane - 'Blue Train' (10.45)
9. Herbie Hancock - 'Cantaloupe Island' (5.32)
10. Dexter Gordon - 'Cheese Cake' (6.33)

[pcqgod]

I'd argue that - as great as it is - this album isn't even HM's best set, let alone Blue Note's.

I would strongly argue that 'Workout' and 'No Room for Squares' are among Mobley's best work. Sonny Rollins' 'Vol. 2' is also among his best, so any sampler should include a track from that.

[WG Kaspar]

I would argue that you need to have Miles's It Never Entered My Mind

[Count Machuki]

fange's Blue Note Essentials - Disc 1

1. Horace Silver - 'Sister Sadie' (6:20)
2. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - 'Dat Dere' (8:45)
3. Kenny Dorham - 'Afrodisia' (5:05)
4. Sonny Clark - 'Blue Minor' (10:17)
5. Hank Mobley - 'No Room For Squares' (6:56)
6. Lee Morgan - 'The Sidewinder' (10.26)
7. Joe Henderson - 'Mode For Joe' (8:00)
8. John Coltrane - 'Blue Train' (10.45)
9. Herbie Hancock - 'Cantaloupe Island' (5.32)
10. Dexter Gordon - 'Cheese Cake' (6.33)

Great selections. Present-day Blue Note would put out something just like that and then have disc 2 split evenly between Mizell Brothers productions and Diana Krall/Norah Jones/Wynton Marsalis.

[clive gash]

Mizell’s - now you’re talking!

[clive gash]

[clive gash]

[George P. Smackers]

Freddie Hubbard just kills me here. And the great rhythm section.

[fange]

A Mles Davis side and a Sonny Rollins cut were definitely in contention - i just ran out of room, i think. I kept the 10 there to some of the key hard bop and soul jazz tunes and players, all featuring horns; no piano trios or organ groups, no early boogie woogie and nothing too free, and nothing after the late '60s. Those are for other separate discs.