YEAH! Milestones of New Jazz Masters - Masakela, Jazz Crusaders, Hancock, McCann, Mann, Mangione and More (10 CDs)

- Debuts and early works by the masters of modern- and Soul-Jazz

- From Herbie Hancock to the Jazz Crusaders and Les McCann

You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist. This quote by Herbie Hancock could easily be his mantra. The Chicago-born pianist was already well on his way into this life-long process of searching and innovating when he released his debut album Takin Off in 1962. By fusing the soulful sounds of his hometown with the compositional experiments he had started at his alma mater Grinnell and the hard-bop favored by his room-mate Donald Byrd, Hancock created a new sound in Jazz. This fusion of old sounds with new ideas (or was it the other way around?) can be experienced on the 10 CDs in this unique collection of original albums by some of his contemporaries, from The Jazz Crusaders via Les McCann to Eddie Harris via Oscar Brown, Jr. and on to Herbie Mann and Hugh Masekela. All of these musicians would probably say Amen to this quote by organist Larry Young from his debut album Groove Street: "I want to be myself, for one thing...and that's when you catch the most hell."

CD 1

THE HORACE SILVER QUINTET / HORACE-SCOPE
1. Strollin'
2. Where You At?
3. Without You
4. Horace-Scope
5. Yeah!
6. Me And My Baby
7. Nica's Dream

HERBIE HANCOCK / TAKIN' OFF
8. Watermelon Man
9. Three Bags Full
10. Empty Pockets
11. The Maze
12. Driftin'
13. Alone And I

CD 2

LES MCCANN IN NEW YORK
1. Chip Monck
2. Fayth, You're...
3. Twist Cha Cha
4. A Little 3/4 For God & Co.
5. Maxie's Changes

LOU RAWLS/LES MCCANN LTD. / STORMY MONDAY
6. (They Call It) Stormy Monday
7. God Bless The Child
8. See See Rider
9. Willow Weep For Me
10. I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
11. In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down
12. 'Tain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do
13. Lost And Lookin'
14. I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
15. Sweet Lover

CD 3
LARRY YOUNG / GROOVE STREET
1. Groove Street
2. I Found A New Baby
3. Sweet Lorraine
4. Gettin' Into It
5. Talkin' 'Bout J. C.

THE JAZZ CRUSADERS / FREEDOM SOUND
6. The Geek
7. M.J.S. Funk
8. That's It
9. Freedom Sound
10. Theme From Exodus
11. Coon

CD 4
LOU DONALDSON / THE NATURAL SOUL
1. Funky Mama
2. Love Walked In
3. Spaceman Twist
4. Sow Belly Blues
5. That's All
6. Nice 'N Greasy

EDDIE JEFFERSON / LETTER FROM HOME
7. Letter From Home
8. Take The "A" Train
9. Billie's Bounce
10. Back In Town
11. Soft And Furry
12. A Night In Tunisia
13. Things Are Getting Better
14. Keep Walkin'
15. I Feel So Good
16. Bless My Soul (Parker's Mood)

CD 5
JIMMY SMITH / HOUSE PARTY
1. Au Privave
2. Lover Man
3. Just Friends
4. Blues After All

OSCAR BROWN JR. / BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL
5. Mr. Kicks
6. Hazel's Hips
7. Excuse Me For Livin'
8. Lucky Guy
9. Forbidden Fruit
10. Opportunity, Please Knock
11. Elegy (Plain Black Boy)
12. Sam's Life
13. Hymn To Friday
14. Love Is Like A New Born Child
15. When Malindy Sings
16. World Full Of Grey

CD 6
CANNONBALL ADDERLEY / THEM DIRTY BLUES
1. Work Song
2. Dat Dere
3. Easy Living
4. Del Sasser
5. Jeannine
6. Soon
7. Them Dirty Blues

EDDIE HARRIS / A STUDY IN JAZZ
8. No One
9. Dancing Bull
10. Cuttin' Out
11. Down
12. Fantastic Waltz
13. Just Friends
14. Olifant Gesang

CD 7
HANK CRAWFORD / MORE SOUL
1. Boo's Tune
2. Angel Eyes
3. Four Five Six
4. The Story
5. Dat Dere
6. Misty
7. Sister Sadie

CHUCK MANGIONE QUINTET / RECUERDO
8. Recuerdo
9. Big Foot
10. I Had The Craziest Dream
11. Solar
12. Blues For Saandar
13. If Ever I Would Leave You
14. The Little Prince

CD 8
HERBIE MANN / AT THE VILLAGE GATE
1. Comin' Home Baby
2. Summertime
3. It Ain't Necessarily So

GENE AMMONS WITH JOE NEWMAN & JACK McDUFF / TWISTING THE JUG
4. Twistin' the Jug
5. Born to Be Blue
6. Satin Doll
7. Moten Swing
8. Stormy Monday
9. Down the Line

CD 9
STANLEY TURRENTINE / LOOK OUT
1. Look Out
2. Journey into Melody
3. Return Engagement
4. Little Sheri
5. Tiny Capers
6. Minor Chant

FREDDIE ROACH / DOWN TO EARTH
7. De Bug
8. Ahm Miz
9. Lujon
10. Althea Soon
11. More Mileage
12. Lion Down

CD 10
JIMMY MCGRIFF / I'VE GOT A WOMAN
1. I've Got A Woman
2. On The Street Where You Live
3. Satin Doll
4. 'Round Midnight
5. All About My Girl
6. M.G. Blues
7. Thats The Way I Feel
8. After Hours
9. Flying Home
10. Sermon

HUGH MASEKELA / TRUMPET AFRICAINE
11. Satisfying Song
12. Merci Bon Die
13. House of the Rising Sun
14. Sit Down (Lord, I Can't Sit Down)
15. He's Gone Away
16. Click Song
17. Guinean Song
18. Ox Drivers Song
19. Umhome
20. Magwalandini
21. Morning of the Carnival (Theme from Black Orpheus)
22. Wimoweh