3*** By All Music Guide
Tracklisting:
1. I've Got You Under My Skin - Ella Fitzgerald ... 3:18
Performed by: Ella Fitzgerald, Nelson Riddle Orchestra
2. A Foggy Day - Lester Young 5:29
3. Stella by Starlight - Milt Jackson ... 7:00
Performed by: Milt Jackson, Oscar Peterson, Mickey Roker
4. Li'l Darlin' - Count Basie 4:44
5. In a Sentimental Mood - Buddy DeFranco 4:10
6. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - John Coltrane 5:03
7. Willow Weep for Me - Joe Pass 4:19
8. Calidoscopico - Dizzy Gillespie, Machito 5:09
9. I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues - Sarah Vaughan 4:36
10. On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)- Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass 7:52
11. See See Rider - Duke Ellington, Ray Brown 3:07
12. Javilla - Louie Bellson ... 5:46
Performed by: Louie Bellson, Walfredo De Los Reyes
13. Oh, Lady Be Good - Zoot Sims 4:35
14. Avalon - Edison, Harry "Sweets" 5:46
15. Three Little Words - Benny Carter 5:43
Total Time: 77:47 / AAD / Stereo
Review:
"If the Clef/Verve era was the first act of impressario Norman Granz's life in jazz, then his Pablo label thoroughly discredits the notion that there are no second acts in American lives. Granz's preferences were conservative by the usual jazz standards, but his taste was impeccable and unwavering, and he liked to keep his tape machines running and running. This OJC sampler gathers together 15 tracks from Pablo, where Granz made sure that his favorite veteran performers were recorded frequently and exhaustively in their last years and to hell with what the accountants thought about it. Most of his favorites are here Ella Fitzgerald (with Nelson Riddle), Oscar Peterson, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie (with Machito), Joe Pass, Sarah Vaughan, Milt Jackson, Zoot Sims, Louie Bellson (in a Latin mood), Harry "Sweets" Edison, Benny Carter, Buddy DeFranco a roll call of American originals of whom only a bare handful are still with us. There are also a couple of trips to the pre-Pablo tape vaults Lester Young in a live "A Foggy Day" from 1956, and a sampling (the ballad "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye") of the voluminous archive of live European John Coltrane tapes that weren't revealed in extensive detail until 2001 on Live Trane. From swing to bop, with an occasional excursion south of the border, these tracks recorded mostly in the close, tight manner that Granz liked offer a pretty accurate impression of the Pablo sound world, where the old verities reigned supreme even in the latter fourth of the 20th century." - by Richard S. Ginell (AMG)
