Icon 2: The Best of Blue Note

by George Gershwin, Sonny Clark, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/11/2014
Label:	Blue Note Records
UPC:	0602537674374
catalogNumber:	001991502
Rank:	573

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Summertime
2. 'Round Midnight
3. A Night in Tunisia
4. Brownie Eyes
5. Blue Train
6. Tune Up
7. Moanin'
8. Cool Struttin'
9. Blues Walk
10. Somethin' Else
11. Back at the Chicken Shack

Disc 2

1. Chitlins Con Carne
2. The Sidewinder
3. Speak No Evil
4. Maiden Voyage
5. Song for My Father
6. Black Byrd
7. Cantaloop
8. Come on in My Kitchen
9. Cold Cold Heart
10. Afro Blue
11. Liquid Spirit

Album Credits

Technical Credits

George Gershwin   Composer
Sonny Clark   Composer
Miles Davis   Composer
Dizzy Gillespie   Composer
Herbie Hancock   Composer
Quincy Jones   Composer
Lee Morgan   Composer
Wayne Shorter   Composer
Horace Silver   Composer
Bobby Timmons   Composer
Cootie Williams   Composer
Brian Bacchus   Producer
Kenny Burrell   Composer
John Coltrane   Composer
Lou Donaldson   Composer
Robert Johnson   Composer
Alfred Lion   Producer
Arif Mardin   Producer
Larry Mizell   Composer,Producer
Thelonious Monk   Composer
Frank Paparelli   Composer
Mongo Santamaría   Composer
Mel Simpson   Composer,Producer
Jimmy Smith   Composer
Craig Street   Producer
Geoff Wilkinson   Composer,Producer
Hank Williams   Composer
Vartan   Art Direction
DuBose Heyward   Composer
Rahsaan Kelly   Composer
Robert Glasper   Producer
Gregory Porter   Composer