Golden Age Of American Popular Music: Jazz Hits Golden Age Of American Popular Music: Jazz Hits CD

2008 release. The Golden Age of American Popular Music is fast-becoming as successful series as Ace Records' Golden Age of American Rock 'N' Roll. This spin-off from the main series is a collection of Jazz Hits from the core years of 1958-66. Although some of the titles will be familiar to pop fans such as Dave Brubeck's 'Take Five' or 'The Girl from Ipanema' by Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto, as ever these are leavened by the much less familiar and sometimes quite rare. We've also insisted on the single versions of the tracks, which haven't been available elsewhere, such as 'Watermelon Man' by Herbie Hancock and 'The Sidewinder' by Lee Morgan. Ace.

1. Watermelon Man - Herbie Hancock (Single Version) 2. Yeh, Yeh! - Mongo Santamaria 3. Comin' Home Baby - Mel Torme 4. Desafinado - Stan Getz/Charles Byrd 5. Soul Sauce (Guarachi Guaro) - Cal Tjader 6. Like Young - Andre Previn 7. Walk on the Wild Side Parts 1 ; 2 - Jimmy Smith ; The Big Band 8. Take Five - Dave Brubeck Quartet 9. The Sidewinder Part 1 - Lee Morgan 10. The Swingin' Shepherd Blues - Moe Koffman Quartette 11. The "In" Crowd - Ramsey Lewis Trio 12. Cast Your Fate to the Wind - Vince Guaraldi Trio 13. African Waltz - Johnny Dankworth 14. The Girl from Ipanema - Stan Getz with Astrud Gilberto 15. Misty - "Groove" Holmes 16. Shake a Lady - Ray Bryant 17. Exodus - Eddie Harris 18. Wack Wack - Young Holt Trio 19. The Shampoo - Les McCann 20. The Greasy Spoon - Hank Marr 21. The Loop - Johnny Lytle 22. I've Got a Woman - Jimmy McGriff 23. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Live/Single Version) - Cannonball Adderley 24. A Taste of Honey - Victor Feldman Quintet 25. Dawn - David Rockingham Trio 26. El Watusi - Ray Barretto 27. Topsy II - Cozy Cole 28. Route 66' Theme - Nelson Riddle