Blue Note: Uncompromising Expression - The Singles Collection

[Hardbopjazz]

Does anyone know if this 5 CD set of singles released through the years by Blue Note contain different takes than what was on the albums? Some of the timings are different than what's on the albums. It may be that the 45's were cut down to fit on a side. 

[Dan Gould]

He may confirm but I could swear Chuck once told me that the 45s were almost always edits of the LP tracks. I had been curious about Three Sounds 45s possibly being different.

[danasgoodstuff]

Sometimes edits, sometimes different takes from the same session, sometimes different takes from different sessions, sometimes just split into two parts, sometimes totally different tunes not on album at all, sometimes just like the LP.  I think pretty much all the options were explored, to a greater or lesser degree.

[JSngry]

Are they counting 78s as singles hete?

[David Ayers]

Maybe they should rerelease these as actual singles?

[JSngry]

Seriously, if they include 78s, won't some things be seeing reissue for the first time, or close to it? Like the Pigmeat Markham thing.

[mikeweil]

When I look at the tracklist I find it to be a rather superficial compilation, not complete (of course not), no B sides (except fo longer two-sided tracks), aimed at the newbie collector rather than the connoisseur - who needs this? Another attempt to cash in on the label's glorious past. 

Disk: 1

  1. Meade Lux Lewis - Melancholy

  2. Earl 'Fatha Hines - Reminiscing At Blue Note

  3. Sidney Bechet - Summertime

  4. Charlie Christian/Edmond Hall - Profoundly Blue

  5. Art Hodes - Doctor Jazz

  6. Ike Quebec Swing Seven - Topsy

  7. Tiny Grimes - Tiny's Boogie Woogie

  8. Babs' Three Bips And A Bop - Oop

  9. Thelonious Monk Sextet - Thelonious

  10. Art Blakey's Messengers - The Thin Man

  11. James Moody & His Bop Men - Moody's All Frantic

  12. Howard McGhee - Double Talk pt 1 & 2

  13. Bud Powell - Bouncing With Bud

  14. Wynton Kelly Trio - Born To Be Blue

  15. Thelonious Monk Quintet - Straight No Chaser

  16. Milt Jackson - Bags Groove

  17. Miles Davis - Yesterdays

  18. Lou Donaldson - Roccus

  19. Horace Silver - Safari

  20. Miles Davis - Tempus Fugit

  21. Lou Donaldson & Clifford Brown - Carvin The Rock

 

Disk: 2

  1. Art Blakey - Message From Kenya

  2. Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers - The Preacher

  3. Jimmy Smith - The High and The Mighty

  4. Clifford Brown - Brownie Speaks

  5. Jay Jay Johnson - Jay

  6. Art Blakey/Lou Donaldson/Clifford Brown - Wee Dot

  7. Sonny Rollins - Decision, Pt. 1&2

  8. Kenny Burrell - DB Blues

  9. Hank Mobley Quintet - Funk in Deep Freeze

  10. Curtis Fuller - Oscalypso

  11. John Coltrane - Blue Train Part 1

  12. Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble - Abdullah's Delight

  13. Bill Henderson/Horace Silver - Senor Blues

 

Disk: 3

  1. Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin

  2. The Three Sounds - Tenderly

  3. Bill Henderson & Jommy Smith - Ain't No Use

  4. Sonny Clark - Ain't No Use

  5. Bennie Green - Encore

  6. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin pt1 & 2

  7. Cannonball Adderley - Somethin Else pt 1 & 2

  8. Dizzy Reece - The Rake

  9. Jackie McLean - What's New

  10. Freddie Hubbard - One Mint Julep

  11. Stanley Turrebtine - Little Sheri

  12. Tina Brooks - True Blue

 

Disk: 4

  1. Grant Green - Miss Ann's Tempo

  2. Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special pt 1 & 2

  3. Jimmy Smith - One O'clock Jump

  4. Dexter Gordon - Ernie's Tune

  5. Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man

  6. Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack pt 1 & 2

  7. Kenny Burrell - The Good Life

  8. Harold Vick - Our Miss Brooks

  9. Joe Henderson - Blue Bossa

  10. Donald Byrd - Elijah

  11. Freddie Hubbard - Blue Frenzy

  12. Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder Part 1

  13. Horace Silver - Cape Verdean Blues

 

Disk: 5

  1. Bother Jack McDuff - Theme From Electric Surfboard

  2. Donald Byrd - Black Byrd

  3. Bobbi Humphrey - Chicago Damn

  4. Donald Byrd - Change

  5. Ronnie Laws & Pressure - Always There

  6. Marlena Shaw - It's Better Than Walkin' Out

  7. Bobby McFerrin - Thinking About Your Body

  8. Us3 - Cantaloop

  9. Dianne Reeves - Better Days

  10. Cassandra Wilson - I Can't Stand The Rain

  11. Norah Jones - Don't Know Why

  12. Robert Glasper Experiment - Smells Like Teen Spirit

  13. Jose James - It's All Over Your Body

  14. Roseanne Cash - Modern Blue

  15. Gregory Porter - Liquid Spirit

  16. Derrick Hodge - Holding Onto You"

 

Edited May 20, 2016 by mikeweil

[felser]

Does anyone else find it perverse that a set containing (at least some) single edits would be entitled "Uncompromising Expression"?

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, felser said:

Does anyone else find it perverse that a set containing (at least some) single edits would be entitled "Uncompromising Expression"?

Not necessarily perverse. But certainly ironic.  

[robertoart]

Mmmm...six tunes to represent 65 through the whole of The Seventies. Maybe it is about 'uncompromising expression', and they will release the juke box favourites later. Did they ever realise any Ornette or Don Cherry '45's 

[paul secor]

Or how about a Cecil 45. I'd love to hear that on a jukebox. No joke.

[danasgoodstuff]

On 5/20/2016 at 9:43 AM, HutchFan said:

Not necessarily perverse. But certainly ironic.  

The whole idea of 'uncompromising' is incoherent if not downright absurd...so, what?

[JSngry]

I see nothing on here from the Ike Quebec 45 sessions, of which there was a nice Mosaic set, so I'm questioning both uncompromising and integrity as they pertain to this set.

[kh1958]

I seem to recall from long ago that the Recovery Room had Blue Train in its jukebox, but it played backwards (part II then part I)?

[JSngry]

You're right about it being on there. Not sure about the sequencing.

[mjzee]

I don't think this is meant to contain every single BN ever released, just a representative sample.  BN Japan (King?) once released an entire LP of Jimmy Smith singles: