Bob Brookmeyer | The Classic Albums (4cd) | 4CD

Bob Brookmeyer was an American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger and composer. He was born on 19 December 1929 in Kansas City, Missouri, and died on 15 December 2011 in New London, New Hampshire.

The Classic Albums Collection is a four CD compilation from Enlightenment, issued in the UK in 2023. It collects eight Bob Brookmeyer albums originally released between 1958 and 1964. The music spans styles including bop, cool jazz, modal, avant-garde jazz, swing, big band, bossa nova and samba.

Track List

Disc 1

1. Arrowhead
2. Street Swingers
3. Hot Buttered Noodling
4. Musicale Du Jour
5. Raney Day
6. Jupiter
7. Honeysuckle Rose
8. As Time Goes By
9. The Way You Look Tonight
10. It Could Happen to You
11. The Man I Love
12. I Got Rhythm

Disc 2

1. Air Conditioned
2. Exactly Like You
3. This Can't Be Love
4. Green Stamps
5. The Things I Love
6. Only When You're Near
7. You're My Everything
8. Cooperation
9. Blues Suite: Introduction and First Movement
10. Second Movement
11. Third Movement
12. Fourth Movement
13. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
14. Mellow Drama
15. Out of Nowhere
16. Darn That Dream

Disc 3

1. On the Sunny
2. Stoppin' at the Savoy
3. Languid Blues
4. I Got Rhythm
5. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
6. Hot and Cold Blues
7. Caravan
8. Why Are You Blue?
9. Some of My Best Friends
10. Gloomy Sunday
11. Ho Hum
12. Detour Ahead
13. Days Gone Bye; Oh My!
14. Where, Oh Where

Disc 4

1. Samba De Orfeu
2. Manha De Carnival
3. Blues Bossa Nova
4. Qual E O Po
5. A Felicidade
6. Theme from 'Munity On the Bounty'
7. Chora Tua Tristeza
8. Colonel Bogey Bossa Nova
9. Jive Hoot
10. Misty
11. The Wrinkle
12. Bracket
13. Skylark
14. Sometime Ago
15. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
16. Who Cares?