Pure Jazz

CD1

[01] Miles Davis Quartet - It Never Entered My Mind (Higher & Higher) [04:04]
[02] Dexter Gordon - Darn that Dream [07:33]
[03] Donald Byrd - I've Got it Bad (and that Ain't Good) [05:54]
[04] Nat King Cole and George Shearing - Fly Me to the Moon (in Other Words) [03:32]
[05] Art Blakey - Along Came Betty [06:13]
[06] Cannonball Adderley - Dancing in the Dark [04:07]
[07] Duke Ellington - In A Sentimental Mood [02:32]
[08] Count Basie and His Orchestra - After Supper [03:26]
[09] Nina Simone - (I Loves You) Porgy (Live at Newport Jazz Fest.) [04:06]
[10] Sonny Rollins - Reflections [07:03]
[11] Stanley Turrentine & the Three Sounds - Willow Weep for Me [08:39]
[12] Dinah Washington - Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be) [03:02]
[13] Pete La Roca - Lazy Afternoon [05:33]
[14] Thelonious Monk - 'round Midnight [03:11]
[15] Ike Quebec - Blue and Sentimental [07:28]
[16] Bud Powell Trio - You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to [02:38]

CD2

[01] John Coltrane - I'm Old Fashioned [08:00]
[02] Herbie Hancock - Driftin' [06:56]
[03] Peggy Lee - Basin Street Blues [03:06]
[04] Wayne Shorter - Footprints [07:32]
[05] Grant Green - God Bless the Child [07:25]
[06] Herbie Nichols Trio - The Lady Sings the Blues [04:25]
[07] Chet Baker - I Can't Get Started [03:10]
[08] Sarah - All I Do is Dream of You [02:59]
[09] George Shearing - Midnight in the Air [02:30]
[10] Chico Hamilton and Eric Dolphy - In A Mellow Tone [04:21]
[11] Lee Morgan - Rainy Night [05:40]
[12] Art Pepper - You Go to My Head [04:20]
[13] Mel Torme - You're Getting to Be A Habit with Me [03:09]
[14] Chick Corea - My One and Only Love [03:38]
[15] Jimmy Smith - On the Sunny Side of the Street [05:48]
[16] Bobby Hutcherson - Maiden Voyage (1987 Digital Remaster) [05:43]

CD3

[01] Louis Armstrong - We Have All the Time in the World [03:14]
[02] Coleman - Someone to Watch Over Me [02:50]
[03] Art Tatum - Sweet Lorraine [02:39]
[04] Nancy Wilson - Call it Stormy Monday But Tuesday is Just as Bad [02:26]
[05] Kenny Dorham - Una Mas (One More Time) [07:21]
[06] Hank Mobley - Falling in Love with Love [05:29]
[07] Lou Donaldson - The Things We Did Last Summer [03:20]
[08] Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin' [09:23]
[09] Dinah Shore with Andre Previn - My Funny Valentine [03:35]
[10] Wes Montgomery - Baubles, Bangles and Bead [03:30]
[11] Milt Jackson - Thinking of You [04:23]
[12] FreARTiST.....: VA
TiTLE......: Pure Jazz
COMPANY....: EMI
RELEASEDATE: 03 November 2007
STREETDATE.: 28 September 2007
SOURCE.....: CDDA
TRACKS.....: 48
GRABBER....: EAC
TYPE.......: Sampler
GENRE......: Jazz
ENCODER....: LAME 3.97 V2: preset standard
QUALiTY....: VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Bitrate....: avg. 164kbpst-Stereo
Bitrate....: avg. 196kbps Nach "Liquid Monster" aus dem Jahre 2005 war in diesem Jahr also wieder mit einem neuen Release zu rechnen, der allerdings zugunsten einiger Re-Releases und der Herausgabe der ersten DVD zunächst einmal nach hinten geschoben wurde.

Dennoch bleiben die süddeutschen Power-Metaller ihren Grundsätzen treu und bringen zumindest schon einmal einen kleinen Vorgeschmack zu ihrem im Frühjahr 2008 geplanten Output "Downburst" auf den Markt. Unter dem verheißungsvollen Titel "Fire Walk With Me" gibt es ein knappes halbes Jahr im Voraus bereits die erste Single, die sich rein musikalisch schon recht stark am jüngsten Werk orientiert, jedoch noch nicht so rasch zu zünden vermag wie die Tracks von "Liquid Monster". Dies stellt sich spätestens im direkten Vergleich mit Nummern wie 'Worlds Are Coming Through' und 'Painside' heraus, die hier als Live-Bonus enthalten sind und in Sachen Ohrwurm-Tau