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The World Of Jazz / Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Albert Ayler, Billie Holiday, and more... / ZYX Music 2x Audio CD 1996 / ZYX 11002-2
UPC 090204450527
Tracklist:
| 1-1 | Art Blakey's Big Band– |
Ain't Life Grand | 3:21 |
| 1-2 | Duke Ellington– | Summertime | 2:12 |
| 1-3 | Billie Holiday– | I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You |
3:40 |
| 1-4 | Bob James Trio– | Explosions | 5:42 |
| 1-5 | Bud Powell– | How High The Moon | 2:57 |
| 1-6 | Dexter Gordon– | Autumn In New York | 6:27 |
| 1-7 | Charlie Parker– | Groovin' High | 5:55 |
| 1-8 | Nina Simone– | Mood Indigo | 4:00 |
| 1-9 | Charlie Mingus– | East Coasting | 5:10 |
| 1-10 | Mel Tormé– | Isn't It Romantic | 3:38 |
| 1-11 |
Herbie Mann– | There's No You | 4:12 |
| 2-1 | Bud Powell– | Night In Tunesia | 7:00 |
| 2-2 | Nina Simone– | My Baby Just Cares For Me | 3:33 |
| 2-3 | Duke Ellington– | Cotton Tail | 2:50 |
| 2-4 | Carmen McRae– | Old Devil Moon | 2:37 |
| 2-5 | Charlie Parker– | Ornithology | 4:47 |
| 2-6 | Paul Bley Trio– | Closer | 3:34 |
| 2-7 | Albert Ayler– | Prophet | 5:36 |
| 2-8 | Herbie Mann– | The Surrey With The Fringe On Top | 2:39 |
| 2-9 | Charlie Mariano– | Smoke Gets In Your Eyes | 3:09 |
| 2-10 | Zoot Sims– | Jive At Five | 5:15 |
| 2-11 | Billie Holiday– | Billie's Blues | 3:42 |
"Groovin' High" is an influential 1945 song by jazz composer and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. The song was a bebop mainstay that became a jazz standard, one of Gillespie's best known hits, and, according to Bebop: The Music and Its Players author Thomas Owens, "the first famous bebop recording". The song is a complex musical arrangement based on the chord structure of the 1920 standard originally recorded by Paul Whiteman, "Whispering", with lyrics by John Schonberger and Richard Coburn (né Frank Reginald DeLong; 1886–1952) and music by Vincent Rose. The biography Dizzy characterizes the song as "a pleasant medium-tempo tune" that "demonstrates...[Gillespie's] skill in fashioning interesting textures using only six instruments".
The song has been used to title many compilation albums and also the 2001 biography Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie.
