Icon 2: The Best of Blue Note

by Icon: The Best Of Blue Note / V

Overview

The second volume of tracks chronicling the history of Blue Note Records, 2014's Icon 2: The Best of Blue Note, features recordings from throughout the storied label's history. Included here are cuts from such classic artists as Thelonious Monk, Clifford Brown, Art Blakey, and Lee Morgan. Also featured are more recent recordings by such lauded musicians as Cassandra Wilson, Norah Jones, and Robert Glasper. Ultimately, Icon 2 offers another very listenable and historical thumbnail sketch of Blue Note's ongoing, swinging, soulful legacy. ~ Matt Collar

Product Details

Release Date:	03/11/2014
Label:	Blue Note
UPC:	0602537674374
Rank:	54009

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Summertime  -  Bechet  - George Gershwin  - DuBose Heyward  - Alfred Lion
2. 'Round Midnight  - Alfred Lion  - Thelonious Monk  - Cootie Williams
3. A Night in Tunisia  - Dizzy Gillespie  - Alfred Lion  - Frank Paparelli  - Bud Powell
4. Brownie Eyes  - Clifford Brown  - Quincy Jones  - Alfred Lion
5. Blue Train  - John Coltrane  - Alfred Lion
6. Tune Up  - Miles Davis  - Alfred Lion  - Sonny Rollins
7. Moanin'  -  Blakey  - Alfred Lion  - Bobby Timmons
8. Cool Struttin'  - Sonny Clark  - Alfred Lion
9. Blues Walk  - Lou Donaldson  - Alfred Lion
10. Somethin' Else  - Cannonball Adderley  - Miles Davis  - Alfred Lion
11. Back at the Chicken Shack  - Alfred Lion  - Jimmy Smith

Disc 2

12. Chitlins Con Carne  - Kenny Burrell  - Alfred Lion
13. The Sidewinder  - Alfred Lion  - Lee Morgan
14. Speak No Evil  - Alfred Lion  - Wayne Shorter
15. Maiden Voyage  - Herbie Hancock  - Alfred Lion
16. Song for My Father  - Alfred Lion  - Horace Silver
17. Black Byrd  - Donald Byrd  - Larry Mizell
18. Cantaloop [Flip Fantasia]  - Herbie Hancock  - Rahsaan Kelly  - Rahsaan Roland Kirk  - Gerard Presencer  - Mel Simpson  -  Us3  - Geoff Wilkinson
19. Come on in My Kitchen  - Robert Johnson  - Craig Street  - Cassandra Wilson
20. Cold Cold Heart  - Norah Jones  - Arif Mardin  - Hank Williams
21. Afro Blue  - Erykah Badu  - Robert Glasper  - Mongo Santamaria
22. Liquid Spirit  - Brian Bacchus  - Kamau Kenyatta  - Gregory Porter

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Jimmy Smith   Primary Artist
Bud Powell   Primary Artist
Lou Donaldson   Primary Artist
Sonny Clark   Primary Artist
Sonny Rollins   Primary Artist
Kenny Burrell   Primary Artist
Donald Byrd   Primary Artist
Us3   Primary Artist
John Coltrane   Primary Artist
Cassandra Wilson   Primary Artist
Horace Silver   Primary Artist
Robert Glasper   Primary Artist
Norah Jones   Primary Artist
Herbie Hancock   Primary Artist
Gregory Porter   Primary Artist
Sidney Bechet Quintet   Primary Artist
Lee Morgan   Primary Artist
Wayne Shorter   Primary Artist
Thelonious Monk   Primary Artist
Cannonball Adderley   Primary Artist
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers   Primary Artist
Clifford Brown   Primary Artist
Erykah Badu   Featured Artist
Rahsaan Roland Kirk   Featured Artist
Gerard Presencer   Featured Artist
Miles Davis   Featured Artist

Technical Credits

Jimmy Smith   Composer
Lou Donaldson   Composer
Sonny Clark   Composer
Kenny Burrell   Composer
Kevin Reeves   Digital Remastering
Craig Street   Producer
Larry Mizell   Composer,Producer
Frank Paparelli   Composer
Dizzy Gillespie   Composer
John Coltrane   Composer
Francis Wolff   Photography
George Gershwin   Composer
Geoff Wilkinson   Composer,Producer
DuBose Heyward   Composer
Lee Morgan   Composer
Horace Silver   Composer
Robert Glasper   Producer
Quincy Jones   Composer
Kamau Kenyatta   Associate Producer
Robert Johnson   Composer
Vartan   Art Direction
Herbie Hancock   Composer
Gregory Porter   Composer
Howard DeLoach   Production Manager
Howard Kim   Design
Rahsaan Kelly   Composer
Liuba Shapiro   Product Manager
Andy Kalyvas   Production Manager
Wayne Shorter   Composer
Mel Simpson   Composer,Producer
Miles Davis   Composer
Thelonious Monk   Composer
Hank Williams   Composer
Mongo Santamaria   Composer
Arif Mardin   Producer
Brian Bacchus   Producer
Harry Weinger   Compilation Producer
Alfred Lion   Producer
Bobby Timmons   Composer
Cootie Williams   Composer