Icon 2: The Best Of Blue Note

Artist:   Various Artists

Title:   Icon 2:  The Best Of Blue Note  (2014)
Genre:  Jazz, Jazz Funk, Vocal Jazz, Post-Bop, Soul Jazz, Harp Bop
Label:  Blue Note Records
Rating:   *****

Tracks:

Disc 1:

 1.  Summertime - Sidney Bechet Quintet  (4:13)
 2.  Round About Midnight - Thelonious Monk  (3:12)
 3.  A Night In Tunisia - Bud Powell  (4:17)
 4.  Brownie Eyes - Clifford Brown  (3:57)
 5.  Blue Train - John Coltrane  (10:42)
 6.  Tune Up - Sonny Rollins  (5:46)
 7.  Moanin' - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers  (9:33)
 8.  Cool Struttin' - Sonny Clark  (9:24)
 9.  Blue Walk - Lou Donaldson  (8:14)
10. Somethin' Else - Cannonball Adderley (feat. Miles Davis) (8:14)
11. Back At The Chicken Shack - Jimmy Smith  (8:04)

Disc 2:

 1.  Chitlins Con Carne - Kenny Burrell  (5:24)
 2.  The Sidewinder - Lee Morgan  (10:24)
 3.  Speak No Evil - Wayne Shorter  (8:19)
 4.  Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock  (7:52)
 5.  Song For My Father - Horace Silver  (7:18)
 6.  Black Byrd - Donald Byrd  (7:20)
 7.  Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) - US3 feat. Rahsaan And Gerard Presencer  (4:39)
 8.  Come On In My Kitchen - Cassandra Wilson  (4:55)
 9.  Cold Cold Heart - Norah Jones  (3:37)
10. Afro Blue - Robert Glasper feat. Erykah Badu  (5:09)
11. Liquid Spirit - Gregory Porter  (3:36)

Icon 2:  The Best Of Blue Note is the excellent two CD compilation of Classic Tracks from the Blue Note Records catalog.  This collection represents the complete history of the label, from its beginnings - including its first best-selling single, "Summertime" - Through its '50s-'60s Classic period, with widely-known tracks from label standard bearers Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Jimmy Smith, Lee Morgan upto its modern successes from Norah Jones, Robert Glasper and Gregory Porter, was released on March 11, 2014 by Blue Note Records.