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Take Four: 49 Essential Jazz Tracks

Various Artists

Initial release : 2004

EMI / Mojo Magazine

Tracks / Musicians

  • Straight, No Chaser - Thelonious Monk
  • If I Were a Bell - Miles Davis Quintet
  • Blue Train - John Coltrane
  • Senor Blues - Horace Silver
  • The Turnaround! - Hank Mobley
  • Ping Pong - Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
  • Love for Sale - Dexter Gordon
  • Isfahan - Duke Ellington
  • Brother John - Yusef Lateef
  • Mira - Andrew Hill
  • The Cry of My People - Lee Morgan
  • Take the 'A' Train - Ella Fitzgerald
  • Jazz Jump - King Pleasure
  • Don't Explain - Billie Holiday
  • My Funny Valentine - Chet Baker
  • Fever - Peggy Lee
  • Upa Neguinho - Flora Purim and Duke Pearson
  • Why Don't You Do Right? - Mark Murphy
  • Work Song - Nina Simone
  • The Snake - Oscar Brown Jr.
  • Moanin' - Sarah Vaughan
  • Soulville - Dinah Washington
  • Hitch Hike - Jean Dushon
  • Psychedelic Sally - Eddie Jefferson
  • Sunshine of Your Love - Ella Fitzgerald
  • Theme de Yo Yo - Art Ensemble of Chicago
  • The Cat - Jimmy Smith
  • All About My Girl - Jimmy McGriff
  • Trouble (No 2) - Stanley Turrentine
  • Wade in the Water - Johnny Griffin
  • Watermelon Man - Herbie Hancock
  • The Cantaloupe Woman - Grant Green
  • Fat Judy - Big John Patton
  • Walk Tall - Cannonball Adderley Quintet
  • Move Your Hand - Lonnie Smith
  • Crosstown Traffic - Gil Evans Orchestra
  • Got Myself a Good Man - Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers
  • Sookie Sookie - Grant Green
  • Don't Knock My Love - Ronnie Foster
  • Love the Life You Live - Melvin Sparks
  • Freedom - Charles Mingus
  • Crescent - John Coltrane Quartet
  • A Prayer - Archie Shepp
  • In a Silent Way - Miles Davis
  • One and One - Miles Davis
  • Hang Up Your Hang Ups - Herbie Hancock
  • The Kumquat Kids - Eddie Henderson
  • 125th Street Congress - Weather Report
  • Space Is the Place - Sun Ra
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