Best Jazz Albums of 1956

CD 1 - Miles Davis (Collectors´ Items): The Serpent’s Tooth I / The Serpent’s

Tooth II / ‘Round About Midnight / Compulsion / No Line / Vierd Blues / In

Your Own Sweet Way / Miles Davis, Milt Jackson Quintet/Sextet: Dr. Jackle /

Bitty Ditty / Minor March / Changes

CD 2 - The Jazz Messengers at Cafe Bohemia Vol. 1: Soft Winds / The Theme

/ Minor’s Holiday / Alone Together / Prince Albert / Cannonball Adderley In

The Land Of Hi-Fi: Dog My Cats / I’m Glad There Is You / Blues For Bohemia

/ Junior’s Tune / Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea / Casa De Marcel

/ Little Girl Blue / T’s Tune / Broadway At Basin Street / Just Norman / I Don’t

Care

CD 3 - Duke Ellington Presents: Summertime / Laura / I Can’t Get Started / My

Funny Valentine / Everything But You / Frustration / Cotton Tail / Day Dream

/ Deep Purple / Indian Summer / Blues / The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop

Pithecanthropus Erectus: Pithecanthropus Erectus / A Foggy Day / Profile Of

Jackie / Love Chant

CD 4: Billie Holiday Lady Sings The Blues: Lady Sings The Blues / Trav’lin’ Light

/ I Must Have That Man / Some Other Spring / Strange Fruit / No Good Man /

God Bless The Child / Good Morning Heartache / Love Me Or Leave Me / Too

Marvelous For Words / Willow Weep For Me / I Thought About You / Sarah

Vaughan In the Land Of Hi-Fi: Over The Rainbow / Soon / Cherokee / I’ll Never

Smile Again / Don’t Be On The Outside / How High The Moon / It Shouldn’t

Happen To A Dream / Sometimes I’m Happy / Maybe / An Occasional Man /

Why Can’t I / Oh My

CD 5 - Stan Getz in Stockholm: Indiana / Without a Song / I Don’t Stand a

Ghost of a Chance with You / I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love with Me /

Everything Happens to Me / Over the Rainbow / Get Happy / Jeepers Creepers

/ Dave Brubeck - Brubeck Plays Brubeck: Swing Bells / Walkin’ Line / In Your

Own Sweet Way / Dave Brubeck -Part Contention / Weep No More / The Duke

/ When I Was Young / One Moment Worth Years / The Waltz

CD 6 - Johnny Hodges & The Ellington All-Stars: Ah Oodie Oobie / Meet Mr.

Rabbit / Duke’s In Bed / Just Squeeze Me / Ballade For The Very Sad And Very

Tired Lotus Eaters / Confab With Rab / It Had To Be You / Black And Tan Fantasy

/ Take The “A” Train / Thelonious Monk Plays The Music Of Duke Ellington:

It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing / Sophisticated Lady / I Got It

Bad And That Ain’t Good / Black And Tan Fantasy / Mood Indigo / I Let A Song

Go Out Of My Heart / Solitude / Caravan

CD 7 - Chet Baker With Bobby Jaspar: How About You / Once In A While /

Cheketah / Alone Together / Chet / Dinah / Tasty Pudding / Anticipated Blues

/ Line / Kenny Burrell - This Time The Dream’s On Me / Kenny Burrell - Fugue

‘N Blues / Kenny Burrell - Takeela / Kenny Burrell Introducing Kenny Burrell:

Weaver Of Dreams / Delilah / Rhythmorama / Blues For Skeeter

CD 8 - Gerry Mulligan - Mulligan Plays Mulligan: Funhouse / Ide’s Side /

Roundhouse / Kaper / Bweebida Bobbida / Mullenium / Mulligan’s Too / John

Coltrane & Hank Mobley - 2 Tenors: Weejah / Polka Dots And Moonbeams /

On It / Avalon

CD 9 - Tenderly: Debut / They Didn’t Believe Me / Lover Come Back To Me /

Where Or When / Three O’ Clock In The Morning / All The Things You Are /

Tenderly / Oscar’s Blues / Little White Lies / In The Middle Of A Kiss / Nameless

/ Two Sleepy People / The Champ: The Champ / Birk’s Works / Caravan / Time

On My Hands / On The Sunny Side Of The Street / Tin Tin Deo / Stardust / They

Can’t Take That Away From Me / The Bluest Blues / Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac

/ Ohh-Shoo-Be-Doo-Bee

CD 10 - Modern Jazz Quartet - Fontessa: Versailles (Porte De Versailles) / Angel

Eyes / Fontessa / Over The Rainbow / Bluesology / Willow Weep For Me /

Woodyn You / Horace Silver - 6 Pieces Of Silver: Cool Eyes / Shirl / Camouflage

/ Enchantment / Senor Blues / Virgo / For Heaven’s Sake