Summary: A collection of hand-picked classics that showcases the depth, versatility, and impact of the Chess Records label on the blues, R & B, rock'n'roll, soul and jazz music scene.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2005

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Contents: Disc 1,1944-1953. Blues (JATP) ; Oh, lady be good! (JATP) ; I've found a new baby (Lester Young) ; Trav'lin' light (Billie Holiday) ; Repetition (Charlie Parker) ; Picasso (Coleman Hawkins) ; Tonga (Machito) ; Celia (Bud Powell) ; Just friends (Charlie Parker) ; Bloomdido (Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie) ; Jeep's blues (Johnny Hodges) ; Drum boogie (Gene Krupa) ; Port of Rico (Illinois...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1994

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Waldron, Mal

Contents: Splidium-dow / Mal Waldron -- Like someone in love / Burke, Van Heusen -- Get happy / Arlen, Koehler -- J.M.'s dream doll / Waldron -- Too close for comfort / Bock, Weiss, Holofcener -- By myself / Schwartz, Dietz -- Love span / Waldron.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Prestige/New Jazz Records 1994

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Waldron, Mal

Contents: Portrait of a bullfighter (7:25) -- One for Bud (6:22) -- For Eric Satie (6:40) -- Paris reunited (18:50).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Paula Records 1973

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Mingus, Charles

Contents: v. 1. Disc 1. What is this thing called love -- Darn that dream -- Yesterdays -- Body and Soul -- Blue moon, blue tide -- Darn that dream (alt) -- Jeepers creepers (take 1) -- Jeepers creepers (take 2) -- Portrait (take 1) -- Portrait (take 2) -- I've lost my love (take 1) -- I've lost my love (take 2) -- Extrasensory perception -- Extrasensory perception (alt) -- Precognition -- Make believe...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Debut 1990

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Contents: Disc 1. Some Commodore highlights: Love is just around the corner Eddie Condon (3:03) -- Strange fruit Billie Holiday (3:10) -- A good man is hard to find pt. 1 (jam session) (4:25) -- (You're some) Pretty doll Fats Waller (with Eddie Condon) (2:49) -- (Back home in) Indiana Don Byas, Slam Stewart (5:13) -- At a Georgia camp meeting Sidney Bechet (3:13) -- A handful of stars: Way down yonder in...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: GRP Records 1997

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Roach, Max

Contents: You stepped out of a dream / Kahn, Brown (7 min., 45 sec.) --Filide / Ray Draper (7 min., 6 sec.) -- It's you or no one / Cahn, Styme (4 min., 12 sec.) -- Jodie's cha-cha / Bill Lee (4 min., 56 sec.) -- Deeds, not words / Bill Lee (4 min., 32 sec.) -- Larry-Larue / Booker Little (5 min., 11 sec.) -- Conversation / Max Roach (3 min., 47 sec.).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverside 1960

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Roach, Max

Contents: It don't mean a thing -- Love letters -- Minor trouble -- Tune up -- Raoul -- This time the dream's on me -- Anthoropology.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: EmArcy 1984

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Mal Waldron Trio

Contents: Champs Elysées / Waldron -- All about us / Elaine Greenidge -- Ciao! / Waldron -- All the way / Sam Cahn, James Van Heusen -- With a song in my heart / Rodgers, Hart -- You stepped out of a dream / Brown, Kahn -- C'est formidable / Waldron.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Prestige/New Jazz 1992

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Mal Waldron Quintet

Contents: Disc 1. Status seeking ; The git go -- Disc 2. Snake out ; Judy ; The seagulls of Kristiansund -- Disc 3. Crowd scene ; Yin and yang -- Disc 4. Where are you? (take I) ; Waltz for Marianne ; Wha's nine? ; Where are you? (take II).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: CAM London 2012

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Land, Harold.

Contents: So in love / Cole Porter (5:58) -- Triple trouble / Amos Trice (5:46) -- Slowly / Raskin, Giell (6:59) -- On a little street in Singapore / Hill, De Rose (7:07) -- Okay blues / Harold Land (12:23).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Jazzland Records 1990

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Coltrane, John

Contents: Straight Street (6:20) -- While my lady sleeps (4:44) -- Chronic blues (8:15) -- Bakai (8:44) -- Violets for your furs (6:19) -- Time was (7:33) -- I hear a rhapsody (6:03) -- Trane's slo blues (6:07) -- Slowtrane (7:21) -- Like someone in love (5:01) -- I love you (5:30) -- You leave me breathless (7:25) -- Bass blues (7:48) -- Soft lights and sweet music (4:44) -- Traneing in (12:36) -- Slow...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Prestige 2006

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Max Roach Quintet

Contents: Shirley (6:39) -- My old flame (3:39) -- Sporty (5:50) -- Stella by starlight (4:20) -- Stompin' at the Savoy (2:52) -- Memo to Maurice (7:45).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Trip 1970

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Coltrane-Turiyasangitananda, A. (Alice)

Contents: Journey in Satchidananda (6:33) -- Shiva-Loka (6:33) -- Stopover Bombay (2:50) -- Something about John Coltrane (10:40) -- Isis and Osiris (10:28).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1997

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May, Billy.

Contents: All of me (3:17) -- If I had you (3:26) -- Lulu's back in town (3:19) -- When my sugar walks down the street (2:50) -- Fat man boogie (3:02) -- Lean, baby (3:16) -- I guess I'll have to change my plans (2:56) -- Charmaine (3:05) -- There is no greater love (2:37) -- My last affair (2:43) -- When your lover has gone (3:16) -- Mayhem (2:47) -- You're driving me crazy (3:00) -- Perfidia (3:02) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Proper 2004

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Contents: Disc 1. Freight train boogie (Captain Luke) -- A living past (Guitar Gabriel) -- Railroad Bill (Etta Baker) -- Going away (John Lee Ziegler) -- High yellow (Cootie Stark) -- Chapel Hill boogie (John Dee Holeman) -- Shortnin' bread (Neal Pattman) -- Old rugged cross (Carl Rutherford) -- No hidin' place (Cool John Ferguson) -- Feel like my time ain't long (Essie Mae Brooks) -- Old time religion...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Contents: Introduction into Fine and mellow -- What a little moonlight can do into Fooling myself -- Easy to remember -- Don't explain -- You've changed -- Ghost of a chance -- Willow weep for me -- Stormy weather.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1966

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Contents: Disc 1. Delilah ; Darn that dream ; Parisian thoroughfare ; Jordu ; Sweet Clifford ; Sweet Clifford (Clifford's fantasy) ; I don't stand a ghost of a chance ; I don't stand a ghost of a chance ; Stompin' at the Savoy ; I get a kick out of you ; I get a kick out of you ; I'll string along with you -- Disc 2. Joy spring ; Joy spring ; Mildama ; Mildama ; Mildama ; Mildama ; Mildama ; Mildama ;...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1989

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Brown, Clifford

Contents: Cherokee (Indian love song) / Ray Noble (Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet) (5:41) -- I've got you under my skin / Cole Porter (Dinah Washington, vocals) (5:22) -- Willow weep for me / Ann Ronell (with strings) (3:25) -- Daahoud / C. Brown (Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet) (4:10) -- Flossie Lou / Tadd Dameron (Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet) (4:50) -- September song / Maxwell Anderson, Kurt...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1958

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Contents: The real McBot (Sandoval) (5:31) -- Eso es lo que hay (Sandoval) (5:56) -- Eastern blues (Felipe Lamoglia) (10:22) -- Blues for Diz (Sandoval) (12:50) -- A lovely one (Sandoval) (10:14) -- Sureña (Sandoval) (6:59) -- If I ain't got you (Alicia Keys) (5:05) -- Rhythm of our world (Sandoval) (15:10).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Half Note Records, Inc. 2005

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Dave Holland Quintet

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: ECM records 2001

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Fancy Pants Orchestra

Contents: Mr. Confidential -- Mushrooms -- Please sit down -- Feeling good -- Yankee Doodle parade -- Sweet Basil -- Perfect match -- Brazilian nightcrawler -- Honeymoon in Rio -- Por favor sientate -- Hongos -- Senor confidencial -- Una combinacion perfecta -- Sentirse bien

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Everything Ok Records 2004

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Fancy Pants Orchestra

Contents: Mr. Confidential -- Mushrooms -- Please sit down -- Feeling good -- Yankee Doodle parade -- Sweet Basil -- Perfect match -- Brazilian nightcrawler -- Honeymoon in Rio -- Por favor sientate -- Hongos -- Senor confidencial -- Una combinacion perfecta -- Sentirse bien

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Everything Ok Records 2023

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Thompson, Sonny

Contents: The Fish -- Blues -- Jam, Sonny, Jam -- Long Gone Part 1 -- Screamin' Boogie --Creeping (Late Freight)-- Walking -- After Sundown -- I'm Coming Back Home To Stay -- Harlem Rug Cutter -- Uncle Sam Blues -- Smoke Stack Blues -- Clang Clang Clang -- Flying Home --Four Thirty In The Morning -- Kenner Cuts One -- So-o-o-o Good -- Things Ain't What They Used To Be -- Cotton Ball Part 1 -- Gum Shoe

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sequel

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