Released January 24, 1995 | Length 148:45 Release date 24 January 1995 Label Universal Music LLC | |
Recorded August 3, 1954 - October, 1960 Similar Brown and Roach Incorporated, Clifford Brown and Max Roa, More Study in Brown, Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Clifford Brown with Strings |
Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years is a compilation album featuring recordings by trumpeter Clifford Brown and drummer Max Roach in groups together and separately which were originally released on Mercury and subsidiary labels.
Contents
Reception
Allmusic's John Bush noted "Verve's two-disc collection of the best recordings from the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet recorded for Mercury/Emarcy between 1954 and 1956 includes a parade of Brown-Roach classics ...The second disc, which doesn't include Brown at all, reels through a highlight film of Max Roach's varied quintets of the late '50s after the death of Brown in 1956. Of course, Roach's sessions during that time feature many great recordings -- trumpeter Booker Little is a competent replacement for Brown, and tenors Sonny Rollins, Hank Mobley, and Stanley Turrentine all have great spots -- but record buyers expecting this set to live up to its title might be disappointed". The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection.
Track listing
Disc one
- "Cherokee" (Ray Noble) - 5:43
- "Joy Spring" (Clifford Brown) - 6:51
- "What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke) - 3:25
- "Mildama" (Max Roach) - 4:32
- "September Song" (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) - 5:46
- "What Am I Here For?" (Duke Ellington, Frankie Laine) - 3:09
- "Sandu" (Brown) - 4:55
- "Daahoud" (Brown) - 4:02
- "Born to Be Blue" (Robert Wells, Mel Tormé) - 5:15
- "Jordu" (Duke Jordan) - 7:46
- "Gertrude's Bounce" (Richie Powell) - 4:10
- "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) - 3:24
- "Parisian Thoroughfare" (Bud Powell) - 7:19
- "Blues Walk" (Brown) - 6:46
Disc two
- "Dr. Free-Zee" (Roach) - 2:07
- "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) - 7:21
- "Valse Hot" (Sonny Rollins) - 14:28
- "Tune-Up" (Eddie Vinson) - 7:46
- "Yardbird Suite" (Charlie Parker) - 3:54
- "A Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) - 8:15
- "La Villa" (Kenny Dorham) - 6:17
- "Max's Variations" (Harold Farberman) - 2:20
- "Prelude" (Consuela Lee) - 5:08
- "Juliano" (Julian Priester) - 5:43
- "Lotus Blossom" (Arthur Johnston, Sam Coslow) - 5:34
- "The Left Bank" (Brown) - 3:17
- "Never Leave Me" (Gordon Jenkins) - 6:49
Personnel
Songs
1Cherokee5:45
2Joy Spring6:53
3What's New3:27