Label: MCA Records – VIM-5~7, MCA Records – VIM-5, MCA Records – VIM-6, MCA Records – VIM-7
Series: 50 Golden Years Of MCA
Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono, Box Set
Country: Japan
Released: 1983
Genre: Jazz, Funk / Soul, Blues
Style:Soul-Jazz, Soul, Piano Blues, Modal, Latin Jazz, Gospel, Hard Bop, Chicago Blues
Epic 3LP box - comes with a 12 page LP sized booklet. (NM)
Tracklist
From Africa To America
A1 Miriam Makeba– Ntjilo Ntjilo
A2 Guy Warren– Hail The Soundz
A3 Katherine Dunham– Aferincomon "Nanigo"
A4 Cuarteto Caney– Mi Padrino Me Manda
A5 Furry Lewis– Stacker Lee
A6 Ikey Robinson– My Four Reasons
A7 Rev. A.W.Nix*– The Black Diamond Express To Hell (Part 1 & 2)
Spirituals, Blues & Boogie
B1 The Norfolk Jubilee Quartet*– Jonah In The Belly Of The Whale
B2 Rev. Edward W. Clayborn– Then We'll Need That True Religion
B3 Tampa Red & Georgia Tom– It's Tight Like That
B4 Jim Jackson (2)– Jim Jackson & Kansas City Blues (Part 1)
B5 Leroy Carr– How Long, How Long Blues
B6 Bertha "Chippie" Hill– Trouble In Mind
B7 Honey Hill– Boogie Woogie
B8 Pete Johnson– Answer To The Boogie
B9 Alex Hill*– Stompin' 'Em Down
Jazz And Blues In The 1920s-30s
C1 Louis Armstrong– Static Strut
C2 Luis Russell– Sweet Mumtaz
C3 Junie C. Cobb*– Shake That Jelly Roll
C4 Duke Ellington– The Mooche
C5 Duke Ellington– The Peanut Vendor
C6 Al Cooper And His Savoy Sultans– Little Sally Water
C7 The Harlem Hamfats– Oh I Red
C8 Kokomo Arnold– Old Black Cat Blues
C9 Sleepy John Estes– Floating Bridge
The 1940s: Era Of Diversity
D1 Jay McShann– Hootie Blues
D2 Georgie Auld, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster– Salt Peanuts
D3 Louis Jordan– Mopi Mopi
D4 Lionel Hampton– Flying Home
D5 Miguelito Valdes– Nague
D6 Sister Rosetta Tharpe– That's All
D7 The Ink Spots– To Each His Own
D8 Dinah Washington– Rich Man's Blues
D9 T-Bone Walker– Stormy Monday
D10 Gunter Lee Carr– We're Gonna Rock
Jazz And Blues In The 1950s-60s
E1 Lightnin' Hopkins– Policy Game
E2 Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton*– Hound Dog
E3 Lloyd Price– Stagger Lee
E4 The Five Blind Boys*– Somewhere Listening For My Name
E5 Clara Ward– Packin' Up
E6 Sonny Rollins– Alfie's Theme Differently
E7 Oliver Nelson– Hoe-Down
E8 Charles Mingus– Hora Decubitus
The Soulful Seventies
F1 John Coltrane– Ogunde
F2 Albert Ayler– Omega
F3 B.B. King– The Thrill Is Gone
F4 Denise La Salle*– Hellfire Loving
F5 Solomon Burke– Ring, Ring, Ring
F6 Rufus & Chaka Khan– Have A Good Time
F7 Hugh Masekela– Languta