Teddy Charles – The 1950’s Album Collection – 4CD

Born Theodore Charles Cohen on April 13th 1927 in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, jazz musician and composer Teddy Charles, whose instruments were the vibraphone, piano, and drums, studied at the Juilliard School of Music as a percussionist. Later he began to record and made personal appearances as Teddy Cohen, writing, arranging, and producing records. In 1951, he changed his last name to Charles. 

This 4CD collection features Teddy Charles’s finest music, all recorded in the 1950s and featuring an impressive cast of backing musicians throughout. A near-perfect introduction to this giant of jazz, and perhaps the ultimate compilation of the great man’s music, everyone with even the vaguest enjoyment of this musical form will surely obsess over this multi-disc set.

Track Listing:

CD1:
1. O'Brien's A Fly'n – 2:29   2. This Is New - 2:16   3. Ol' Man River – 3:47   4. Tenderly – 3:10   5. Basin Street Blues – 3:17   6. I'll Remember April – 2:56   7. The Lady Is A Tramp – 2:27   8. Blue Moon - 2:57   9. Edging Out - 4:13   10. Composition For Four Pieces - 1:36   11. A Night In Tunisia - 6:48   12. Mobiles - 4:04   13. Antiphony - 3:52   14. Metalizing - 4:10   15. Decibels - 4:04   16. Variations On A Motive By Bud - 4:20   17. Wailing Dervish - 4:32   18. Further Out - 5:43   19. Etudiez Le Cahier - 3:49   20. Margo - 4:52   21. Bobalob - 7:01

CD2:
1. Vibrations - 6:16   2. The Quiet Time - 5:53   3. The Emperor - 8:08   4. Nature Boy - 6:25   5. Green Blues - 4:09   6. You Go To My Head - 4:27   7. Lydian M-1 - 4:25   8. Take Three Parts Jazz - 14:23   9. Meta-Waltz - 5:29   10. Dear Elaine - 8:53   11. Friday The 13th - 8:53

CD3:
1. Word From Bird - 10:10   2. Laura - 5:03   3. Show Time - 6:09   4. When Your Lover Has Gone - 2:30   5. Just One Of Those Things - 6:02   6. Blue Greens - 11:40   7. Violetta - 3:41   8. The Night We Called It A Day - 2:45   9. Jay Walkin' - 3:41   10. Speak Low - 3:21   11. Relaxo Abstracto - 5:26   12. I Can't Get Started - 7:13   13. Free - 4:21   14. Evolution - 4:13

CD4:
1. Staggers - 7:55   2. Song Of A Star - 7:14   3. The Eagle Flies - 7:44   4. Bunni - 8:06   5. Reiteration - 8:00   6. Everything Happens To Me - 4:34   7. Introduction - 0:32   8. Scoochie - 6:19   9. Embraceable You - 4:42   10. Blues De Tambour - 6:07   11. Take Three Parts Jazz (Version 2) - 12:17   12. The Confined Few - 8:08