Priceless Jazz: Sampler 1

Priceless Jazz (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 17, 1997)
• Original Release Date: 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Verve
• ASIN: B0000001WQ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #237,214 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Priceless Jazz Sampler offers 11 highlights from BMG/RCA's Priceless series. Song list: 1 Billie Holiday - Good Morning Heartache 3:06 2 Ella Fitzgerald with Bob Haggart And His Orchestra - Oh, Lady Be Good 3:06 3 Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World 3:32 6 Sonny Rollins - Three Little Words 7 Pharoah Sanders - Thembi 7:03 8 Charles Mingus - Better Get Hit In Yo' Soul 8:28 9 Duke Ellington - The Jeep Is Jumpin' 4:42 10 Gato Barbieri - Milonga Triste 5:00 11 Chick Corea - Spain 5:53

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars outstanding, July 20, 2000

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Bryan E Thompson (West Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Priceless Jazz: Sampler 1 (Audio CD)

These samplers feature some really great music. Spain with Chick Corea and John Patitucci is worth the price of a full priced CD alone. One of the best instrumental versions I have heard anywhere.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great teaching tool!, August 19, 2009

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Judy K. Polhemus "Book Collector" (Louisiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Priceless Jazz: Sampler 1 (Audio CD)

Conversation with my 11-year-old great-niece (and one of my Pretend Children):

"Do you know who Louis Armstrong is?"
"No." (Said in quiet voice)
"Billie Holiday?"
"No." (Said in quieter voice)
"Well then. It's time you learned."

(Chelsea and I have this deal. When she rides with me, she has to listen to some of my music first: opera, jazz, musicals--"The Phantom of the Opera" scares her, classical, and so on, THEN she can listen to the radio.)

I put in my copy of "Priceless Jazz Sampler" and the lesson begins. I began with a story I heard on public radio just a few days ago. Billie Holiday has a way of singing the words that makes you feel her pain. Her pain is your pain. The point of that particular broadcast was the necessity for a musician to know the standards. There's one song (sorry, I've forgotten the title) that Billie Holiday's voice made into one of those standards.

Chelsea learned directly the meaning of "scat" when Ella Fitzgerald sang--and scatted--"Oh, Lady Be Good." I asked Chelsea to try her voice at scat. "That's OK, Aunt Judy." So I scatted (ha!).

I stopped the CD to tell her a little about Louis Armstrong--that he was from New Orleans, about his trademark white hankerchief, why he started singing (he needed to rest his lips). "It's a Wonderful World" is, of course, one of Armstrong's standards!

By this time I knew Chelsea had reached her limit at un-rock music so I changed CDs. We'll come back to jazz later.

"You're a womanizer, womanizer, oh, oh, oh." However, some rock songs have their purpose, too. Here Britney has her say about the man who single-handedly destroyed--temporarily--her reputation.

Other titles and musicians in this Jazz Sampler--an incredible collection and sampling--include:
Johnny Hartman--Lush Life (my my)
John Coltrane--Bessie's Blues
Sonny Rollins--Three Little Words
Charles Mingus--Better Get Hit in Yo Soul
Duke Ellington (really, a king!)--The Jeep is Jumpin'

Can I get a Wow!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Take several, April 24, 2003

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Samuel Chell (Kenosha,, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Priceless Jazz: Sampler 1 (Audio CD)

These are a steal, practically mandatory pick-ups for giving to family and friends. The artists and tune selections aren't "throwaways" but represent some of the best recorded moments in jazz over the past 5-6 decades. The personnel listings and recording dates are even complete and accurate.

The only real disappointment on this first disc is the Gato Barbieri number--sort of "old" new-age pop, and distorted at that. Gato is best represented by his music for "Last Tango in Paris" and his memorable (if eccentric) appearance in the video release, "Calle 54."