Album Description2008 UK two CD compilation of Blue Note recordings from 1953-58, filled with plenty of hip and hard core Bop. There are many great periods in Jazz music, and the five years covered on this collection is no exception. New York was a Jazz mecca and this collection features the best of Blue Note's roster creating music that sounded, felt and smelled like New York. 20 tracks from the likes of Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, Johnny Griffin, The Jazz Messengers, Kenny Dorham, Kenny Burrell, Sonny Clark, Lee Morgan, Clifford Jordan and others. Blue Note.