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The Sound Of America

Norman Granz

Label: Verve
Released: 2026
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Tracks

CD1: Blues; Picasso; Tenderly; Like Someone in Love; New Basie Blues; Castle Rock; Con Poco Coco ; Louise; Taking a Chance on Love; Easy Living; Flamingo; You Won’t Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart); I’ll Never Be the Same ; Dale’s Wail ; That Old Black Magic

CD2: Laura; Session #1 — Ballad Medley: All the Things You Are/Dearly Beloved/The Nearness of You/I’ll Get By/Everything Happens to Me/The Man I Love/What’s New?/Someone to Watch Over Me/Isn’t It Romantic; Thou Swell; Cocktails for Two; Why Was I Born?; On the Street Where You Live; Lullaby of the Leaves; Blue Room I Thought About You ; Chelsea Bridge — rehearsal; No Strings.

Personnel

Norman Granz

producer

Modern Jazz Quartet

band / ensemble / orchestra

Dizzy Gillespie

trumpet

Benny Carter

saxophone, alto

Teddy Wilson

piano

Lester Young

saxophone

Oscar Peterson

piano

Coleman Hawkins

saxophone, tenor

Stan Getz

saxophone, tenor

Lionel Hampton

vibraphone

Johnny Hodges

saxophone, alto

Charlie Parker

saxophone, alto

Joe Williams

vocals

Count Basie

piano

Buddy Rich

drums

Woody Herman

band / ensemble / orchestra

Mel Torme

vocals

Anita O'Day

vocals

Billie Holiday

vocals

Ella Fitzgerald

vocals

Additional Personnel / Information

Bud Powell; Louis Armstrong; Art Tatum; Roy Eldridge; Sonny Rollins; Sonny Stitt; Jack Kerouac; Mort Sahl; Jonathan Winters; Shelley Berman; Spike Jones and His City Slickers; Rose Murphy; Margaret Whiting; Bing Crosby and Buddy Bregman; Fred Astaire.