This set, containing over six hours of music across 10 complete, original albums – all presented here in re-mastered glory – is a fitting testament to the defining era of Chico Hamilton’s career. As one of the hardest-working and longest-serving musicians to ever grace the genre, this eclectic, engaging and extraordinary body of work remains as important today as it ever was.
Disc: 1
1. Green Dream
2. It’s You
3. A Walk On The Veldt
4. How Long Has This Been Going On
5. The Blindfold Test
6. Jungle Pogo Stick
7. Tanganyika
8. Wagnervous
9. And So Is Love
10. Coming Back For More
11. Something To Live For
12. Andante
13. Speak Low
14. Pottsville, USA
15. Don’s Delight
16. Strange
17. Modes
18. Fair Weather
19. Close Your Eyes
20. Ev’rything I’ve Got
Disc: 2
1. Take The ‘A’ Train/Perdido
2. Everything But You
3. I’m Just A Lucky So And So
4. Azure
5. I’m Beginning To See The Light
6. In A Mellotone
7. Just A-Sittin’ And A-Rockin’
8. In A Sentimental Mood
9. Day Dream
10. It Don’t Mean A Thing
11. Fat Mouth
12. Champs Elysees
13. Theme For A Starlet
14. Little Lost Bear
15. Lost In The Night
16. Pretty Little Theme
17. Frou-Frou
18. Cawn Pawn
19. Lullaby For Dreamers
20. Opening
21. Lady ‘E’
22. Truth
Disc: 3
1. Miss Movement
2. She’s Funny That Way
3. Trinkets
4. More Than You Know
5. The Best Things In Life Are Free
6. Where Or When
7. Happy Little Dance
8. Newport News
9. I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do)
10. No Speak No English, Man
11. Irma La Douce
12. Our Language Of Love
13. From A Prison Cell
14. She’s Got The Lot
15. There Is Only One Paris For That
16. A Lot Of Livin’ To Do
17. Baby Talk To Me
18. Put On A Happy Face
19. How Lovely To Be A Woman
20. Kids
Disc: 4
1. Don’t Get Lost
2. Autumn Leaves
3. New Rhumba
4. Way Down
5. Afternoon Of A Breeze
6. Lady Bird
7. Trio
8. Sun Yen Yen
9. A Voice Of The Night
10. A Different Journey
11. The Vulture
12. One Sheridan Square
13. Island Blues
Disc: 5
1. One For Joan
2. Freedom Traveler – Part I: Prayer, Part II: Journey
3. Tales
4. Homeward
5. A Rose For Booker
6. Transfusion
7. Passin’ Thru
8. The Second Time Around
9. El Toro
10. Transfusion
11. Lady Gabor
12. Lonesome Child