A great little jam session from Verve – done in a style that's looser and freer than some of the JATP albums, and with a smaller group overall! Players include Stan Getz, Paul Gonsalves, and Coleman Hawkins on tenor, Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet, and Wynton Kelly on piano – plus bass by Wendell and drums from JC Heard. There's a rougher, more spontaneous quality here than even on some of the other Norman Granz jam session records – a feel that's almost more "real" overall, as if you were catching the players all working together in a club. Each side features 2 long tracks – one upbeat and one mellow – and the tenor interplay alone is worth the price of the record! Titles include long takes on "Dizzy Atmosphere" and "The Way You Look Tonight" – plus 2 additional ballad medleys! CD

Nicely grooving material – with tracks that are a bit shorter than the usual Verve "celebrity meets celebrity" set, but which are no less well-played. Dizzy is always fantastic in this sort of loosely-crafted setting – and Getz's playing here is nicely relaxed, with more open-ended blowing than you might hear in some of his own sets as a leader. The pair play with backing by the Oscar Peterson trio – on titles that include "Siboney", "Impromptu", "Girl Of My Dreams", and "It Don't Mean A Thing". CD

Nicely grooving material – with tracks that are a bit shorter than the usual Verve "celebrity meets celebrity" set, but which are no less well-played. Dizzy is always fantastic in this sort of loosely-crafted setting – and Getz's playing here is nicely relaxed, with more open-ended blowing than you might hear in some of his own sets as a leader. The pair play with backing by the Oscar Peterson trio – on titles that include "Siboney", "Impromptu", "Girl Of My Dreams", and "It Don't Mean A Thing". CD

Later two-fer that brings together two meetings between trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and tenorist Stan Getz. Both sides feature nicely grooving material – with tracks that are a bit shorter than the usual Verve "celebrity meets celebrity" set, but which are no less well-played! Dizzy is always fantastic in this sort of loosely-crafted setting – and Getz's playing here is nicely relaxed, with more open-ended blowing than you might hear in some of his own sets as a leader. The pair play with backing by the Oscar Peterson trio on the first set which includes "Siboney", "Impromptu", "Girl Of My Dreams", and "It Don't Mean A Thing", while the second set finds them stretching out nicely on "Be Bop", "We", "Dark Eyes" and "Lover Come Back" along side Sonny Stitt, John Lewis, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown and Stan Levey. LP, Vinyl record album

Excellent jazz from French soundtracks of the late 50s! The bulk of the set is taken up with Art Blakey's wornderful score to the film Des Femmes Disparaissent – which features work by Jazz Messengers Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons, and Benny Golson, recorded in Paris in 1958, with a hip swinging hardbop sound. These tracks make up 17 titles on the CD – with songs that include "Mambo Dans La Voiture", "Merlin", "Tom", "Nasol", and "Blues Pour Vava", plus a few solo drum tracks that are really great! 4 more tracks are from the rare ep-only soundtrack to Les Tricheurs – played by a Jazz At The Philharmonic group that includes Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson, Coleman Hawkins, and Roy Eldridge. Tracks on those numbers include "Les Tricheurs", "Phil's Tune", and "Mic's Jump". CD

With sidemen that include Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Junior Mance, Lalo Schrifrin, and others. LP, Vinyl record album

One volume of a four volume set, though Verve didn't number them. Recorded in concert one night in Denmark, this set is a Norm Granz production that transplants the JATP crew to Europe. While some of the other volumes feature larger groups blowin' and riffing on standards, this one has a small more intimate group, featuring Stan Getz & JJ Johnson in front of a nice tight rhythm section of Victor Feldman, Sam Jones & Louis Hayes. The set's still made up of standards, but there's a few nice takes here, including "I Waited For You", "Yesterdays" and a nice version of "Bop N Boogie" featuring Dizzy Gillespie. LP, Vinyl record album

With selections by Stan Getz, Paul Gonsalves, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Illinois Jacquet, Lee Konitz, Coleman Hawkins, and Ben Webster. LP, Vinyl record album

Features Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Stan Getz, Jackie McLean, Phil Woods, Milt Jackson, Hank Jones, and Percy Heath. CD

Maybe the biggest, best collection we've ever seen to feature the work of one of our favorite soundtrack composers of all time – a package that brings together most of his key albums, plus lots of additional side projects, jazz records, and lots of other surprises too! The format is great – a book-styled cover with a huge set of notes and images – 319 tracks, and over 18 hours of music within – all very much worth the price! And if you're fans as much as we are, you'll want to know what's inside, so here goes: CD1 and CD2 feature Schifrin-related Verve Records jazz tracks – work by Bob Brookmeyer, Stan Getz, Jimmy Smith, Cal Tjader, and others – plus Schifrin Verve jazz tracks too! CD3 and CD4 feature the Dizzy Gillespie albums Free Ride and Gillespiana, plus bonus tracks. CD5 features the albums Mission Impossible and More Mission Impossible. CD6 features the soundtracks Mannix and Murders Row. CD7 features the soundtracks for Bullitt and Cool Hand Luke. CD8 features the Verve albums Once A Thief and Schifrin/Sade. CD9 features the albums There's A Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin On and Rock Requiem. CD10 features tracks from the Dirty Harry films – 25 titles from Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, Sudden Impact, and The Dead Pool – plus a bonus track. CD11 features a range of tracks for kung fu films – the whole Enter The Dragon soundtrack, plus more for Golden Needles, The Big Brawl, and the three Rush Hour films. CD12, 13, and 14 feature a range of other soundtrack tunes – from films that include The Fox, The Liquidator, Che, Coogan's Bluff, Pussycat Pussycat I Love You, Les Felins, Sol Madrid, Harry In Your Pocket, Telefon, THX 1138, Pretty Maids All In A Row, The Nude Bomb, Brubaker, Rollercoaster, Nunzio, Tango, and others. CD15 features highlights from Jazz Meets The Symphony. And CD16 features a range of covers and other versions of Schifrin tunes – by Hugo Montenegro, Portishead, Peggy Lee, Ray Davies & The Button Down Brass, The Ventures, Laurindo Almeida, Dennis Coffey, Scot Walker, Lou Rawls, Claude Nougaro, Wilton Felder, and others. Phew! CD

Folk and Jazz compilation with music from Oscar Brand, the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, Seamus Ennis, Ewan McColl & A L Lloyd, Ed McCurdy, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Meade "Lux" Lewis, the World's Greatest Jazz Band. CD

An incredible document of a key genre in 50s jazz on record – the jam session tradition, recorded beautifully for Verve records by the legendary Norman Granz! The idea of a jam session was nothing new at the time, of course, but it was mostly a live phenomenon – known to players from concerts and club dates, or presented on vinyl by Granz, in his celebrated Jazz At The Philharmonic sessions. These dates mark a move into the studio by Granz – one that captures the same sort of energy and unique pairings of musicians that went down in the live sessions, with the added benefit of studio technology to make the work sound even clearer, and more intimate. The 5CD set brings together all 9 Jam Session albums – packaged beautifully in a slipcase with original album cover art, and a full 72 page booklet on the musicians, sessions, and titles included. Players include nearly everyone who might have worked for Verve in the 50s – Benny Carter, Charlie Parker, Johnny Hodges, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Buddy DeFranco, and countless others – and titles include "Jam Blues", "Funky Blues", "Apple Jam", "Blues For The Count", "Jamming For Clef", "Rose Room", "Blue Lou", and "Lullaby In Rhythm" – all in very long versions! CD

Legendary grooves from a legendary label – killer cuts from the Verve Records catalog, some from the classic 50s and 60s years, mixed with some surprising gems of more recent vintage! The set list is excellent – a real ear for compelling grooves and sophisticated sounds, on a par with some of the other recent Verve/Universal collections done by Gilles Peterson or Nicola Conte – even though there's no big name attached to this set – and there's definitely a few cuts here that you'll have a hard time tracking down otherwise. Titles include "Move Your Hands" by La Clave, "Cantaloupe Island" by Kai Winding, "Shanghaied" by Count Basie, "Senor Blues" by Anita O'Day, "Caretakers Theme" by Bill Evans, "Chang Chang Chang" by Yusef Lateef, "Panamerican" by Dizzy Gillespie, "Stolen Moments" by Mark Murphy, "Not Enough Mama" by Horace Silver, and "Wives & Lovers" by Stan Getz. CD

Music from Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Duke Ellington, Chick Corea, Wes Montgomery, Nina Simone, Bill Evans, Erroll Garner and more. CD

2 nice live sets – put together by Norm Granz, as a tour of the JATP all stars in Europe. Originally issued separately, but pretty much under the same title, the first LP brings together the hottest jazz stars of the day, and on this volume it includes Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, JJ Johnson, Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge. There's a great jamming take on "Bernie's Tune" and a sidelong riffing version of "All The Things You Are", plus "Swedish Jam". The second album was issued ostensibly as a Dizzy Gillespie performance, but with like the first features some very strong guest stars! The core of the group is Diz's great one from the early 60s – with Lalo Schifrin on piano and Leo Wright on alto and flute, and they're joined by Stan Getz, JJ Johnson, and Candido for this tasty set of three long tracks: "Kush", "The Mooch" and "Wheatleigh Hall". LP, Vinyl record album