Photo: Nick Tipping
Nick Tipping checks out jazz recordings from 1955 - the year Horace Silver settled on his quintessential quintet format, Thelonious Monk recorded Duke Ellington's music, and lesser known artists like Herbie Nichols and Frank Morgan recorded groundbreaking albums.
MUSIC DETAILS:
| # | Artist: | Song: | Composer: | Album | Label: | Duration: |
| 1 | Errol Garner | Where or When | Rodgers / Hart | Concert By The Sea | Columbia | 03:06 |
| 2 | Ahmad Jamal | I Get a Kick Out of You | Porter | Chamber Music of the New Jazz | Argo | 04:53 |
| 3 | Stan Kenton | Stella By Starlight | V Young | Contemporary Concepts | Blue Note | 05:11 |
| 4 | Thelonious Monk | I Got it Bad and That Ain't Good | Ellington | Thelonious Monk plays Duke Ellington | Riverside | 05:52 |
| 5 | Oscar Peterson | Tenderly | Gross / Lawrence | In a Romantic Mood | Verve | 03:53 |
| 6 | Horace Silver | The Preacher | Silver | Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers | Blue Note | 04:18 |
| 7 | Frank Sinatra | When Your Lover Has Gone | Swan | In the Wee Small Hours | Capitol | 03:10 |
| 8 | Lennie Tristano | Requiem | Tristano | Lennie Tristano | WEA | 04:52 |
| 9 | Frank Morgan | Bernie's Tune | Miller / Leiber / Stoller | Frank Morgan | GNP | 05:30 |
| 10 | Herbie Nichols | Crisp Day | Nichols | The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol 2 | EMI | 03:47 |
| 11 | Harry Edison / Lester Young | Red Boy Blues | L Young | Pres and Sweets | Verve | 05:52 |
