Various Artists - Blue 45s: The Ultimate Jukebox (1998)

BLUE SERIES MONTH (FEBRUARY, 2025)

UK import

A simple but brilliant idea: compile some early single releases issued by the Blue Note label. I'd wager this may be the first and only CD release of many (if not all) of these single edits.

Liner notes by author Roy Carr.

Tracks:

	Title	Artist	Year
1	Dat Dere (Pt. 1)	Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers	1960
2	Camp Meetin'	Don Wilkerson	1962	✔
3	Funky Mama (Pt. 1)	Lou Donaldson	1962	✔
4	Wavy Gravy (Pt. 1)	Kenny Burrell	1956	✔
5	Blind Man, Blind Man (Pt. 1)	Herbie Hancock	1963
6	I Know	Freddie Roach	1963
7	Brown Sugar	Freddie Roach	1964	✔
8	Brother Isaac	Donald Byrd	1965
9	Fat Judy (Pt. 1)	'Big' John Patton	1965	✔
10	The Jody Grind (Pt. 1)	Horace Silver	1966
11	Rev. Moses	Lou Donaldson	1967	✔
12	Psychedelic Sally	Horace Silver	1968
13	Fungii Mama (Pt. 1)	Blue Mitchell	1964	✔
14	Bucket	Jimmy Smith	1963	✔
15	Move Your Hand (Pt. 1)	Lonnie Smith	1969
16	Spanish Harlem	Bobbi Humphrey	1971
17	The Turnaround (Pt. 1)	Hank Mobley	1965	✔
18	The Rumproller (Pt. 1)	Lee Morgan	1965	✔
19	Trouble (Pt. 1)	Stanley Turrentine	1963
20	Blue Bossa	Joe Henderson	1963
21	Alligator Boogaloo	Lou Donaldson	1967	✔

Imagine my surprise when I discovered this disc also contains some multimedia files. It wasn't labelled as an "Enhanced CD" or "CD-Extra," but I noticed some installation instructions at the end of the liner note booklet. And imagine my further surprise when it all still worked more than a quarter century after release!

The "competition" tab gave UK hepcats a chance to win the entire Blue Series (35 CDs?!?!!) by answering a question:

If they're referencing the song Holy Thursday by David Axelrod, the correct answer would be "no band sampled that track for a song entitled Groove Is In The Heart," right? Or my ear could be missing something. Or maybe they were thinking of of the song Stay in Bed, Forget the Rest by Deee-Lite? Sadly, the deadline for entry was September 30, 1998, so the matter is moot. But that contest doesn't have much to do with the music on today's compilation CD, so never mind. As you were.

Personal Memory Associated with this CD: None

Previously revisited for the blog:

Blue Bacharach (1999)	Capitol Rare (1999)
Blue Brazil (1999)	Capitol Rare Vol 2 (1999)
Jump Blue (1999)	Capitol Rare Vol 3 (1999)
Blue Beat (1991)	Blue Bossa (1991)
Blue Boogie (1999)	Blue Bossa Vol 2 (1999)
Blue Series Sampler (2001)	Midnight Blue (1999)
Blue Valentines (1999)	Blue Movies (1999)
So Blue So Funky (1991)	Blue 'N' Groovy Vol 2 (1999)
So Blue So Funky Vol 2 (1994)	California Cool (1993)
Blue Break Beats (1992)	Blue 'N' Soul (2001)
Blue Break Beats Vol 3 (1996)	Blue '70s (2000)
Blue York Blue York (1996)