Jazz's Greatest Hits of the 1960s

"Take Five" - The Dave Brubeck Quartet (Paul Desmond) (1959-61)


"My Favorite Things" - John Coltrane (1961) 

"Stolen Moments" - Oliver Nelson (1961)

"One Mint Julep" - Ray Charles (R. Toombs) (1961)

"Unsquare Dance" - The Dave Brubeck Quartet (1961)

"African Waltz" - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (1961/2)


"The Lonely Bull" - Herb Alpert (1962)

"Cast Your Fate to the Wind" - Vince Guaraldi (1962)

"Watermelon Man" - Herbie Hancock (1962)

"Soul Bassa Nova" - Quincy Jones (1962)

"Desafinado" - Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd (1962)

"The Stripper" - David Rose & His Orchestra (1962)

"Stranger on the Shore" - Acker Bilk (1962)


"Watermelon Man" - Mongo Santamaria (via Herbie Hancock) (1963)

"The Pink Panther Theme" - Henry Mancini (1963)

"Wives & Lovers" - Jack Jones (Bacharach/David) (1963)

"Yeh, Yeh" - Mongo Sanatamaria (1963)

"Blue Bossa" - Joe Henderson (Kenny Dorham) (1963)

"Bluesette" - Toots Thielemans (1963)

"Silver's Serenade" - The Horace Silver Quintet (1963)

"My One and Only Love" - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963)


"Cantaloupe Island" - Herbie Hancock (1964)

"Java" - Al Hirt (1964)

"Helly, Dolly" - Louis Armstong (1964)

"You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)" - Dionne Warwick / Burt Bacharach

"Sidewinder" - Lee Morgan (1964)

"Girl from Ipanema" - Jaoa Gilberto & Stan Getz with Astrud Gilberto (Antonio Carlos Jobim) (1964) 

"Song for My Father" - Horace Silver Quintet (1965)

"A Love Supreme, Pt 1 (Acknowledgement)" - John Coltrane (1964/5)


"The 'In' Crowd" - The Ramsey Lewis Trio (Billy Page) (1965)

"Sinnerman" - Nina Simone (1965)

"Ceora" - Lee Morgan (1965)

"Linus and Lucy" - Vince Guaraldi (1965)

"Christmas Time Is Here" - Vince Guaraldi (1965)

"Maiden Voyage' - Herbie Hancock (1965)

"The Cape Verdean Blues" - The Horace Silver Quintet with J.J. Johnson (1965)

"Dolphin Dance" - Herbie Hancock (1965)

"E.S.P." - The Miles Davis Quintet (1965)

"Skating" - Vince Guaraldi (1965)

"Christmas Is Coming" - Vince Guaraldi (1965)


"Footprints" - Wayne Shorter (1966)

"The Jody Grind" - Horace Silver (1966)

"Grazin' in the Grass" - Hugh Masekela (1966)

"A Taste of Honey" - Herb Alpert & The Tiujana Brass (1966)

"Mas que nada" - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 (1966)

"Goin' Out of My Head" - Wes Montgomery (1966)

"Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" - Cannonball Adderley (Joe Zawinul) (1966/7)


"California Dreaming" - Wes Montgomery (1966/7)

"Speak No Evil" - Wayne Shorter (1967)

"The Look of Love" - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 (Bacharach/David) (1967)

"Forest Flower" - Charles Lloyd (1967)

"Sweet Rain" - Stan Getz (1967)

"Footprints" - Miles Davis (1967)


"Speak Like a Child" - Herbie Hancock (1968)

"Promises, Promises" - Dionne Warwick with Burt Bacharach (1968)

"Shape of Things to Come" - George Benson (1968)

"Nefertiti" - Miles Davis (1968)

"Bacchanal" - Gábor Szabó (1968)

"Machine Gun" - The Peter Brötzmann Octet (1968)


"Tell Me A Bedtime Story" - Herbie Hancock (1969)

"I'll Never Fall in Love Again" - Burt Bacharach (Bacharach/David) (1969)

"Emergency!" - The Tony Williams Lifetime (1969)

"Hum-Dono" - Joe Herriott-Amancio D'Silva Quartet (1969)






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