The Blue Note Explosion (2CD) is the new compilation series from the team that brought you the Blue Series, the biggest selling jazz series ever. Main compiler Dean Rudland has compiled many successful compilation series in addition to his work at Blue Note, including BGPs Super Breaks and Super Funk compilations and EMI / Stateside's Minnie Riperton 'Les Fleurs' and David Axelrod 'Anthology'. The compilations will all cover distinct historical and stylistic phases of the label's history, gathering together tracks that are rarely anthologised alongside some of the more well known cuts. Each one will then be housed in a distinctive sleeve that looks like a Blue Note compilation that was done at the specific period covered by the release, but then left on a shelf and forgotten about until now. It creates a unique and wonderfully Blue Note feel to the whole series.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Face To Face (Digitally Remastered) - Baby Face Willette
2. Brown Sugar (Digitally Remastered) - Freddy Roach
3. And Satisfy (Digitally Remastered) - Stanley Turrentine
4. Yeh Yeh - The Three Sounds
5. The Jody Grind (20 Bit Mastering) - Horace Silver
6. Midnight Special (Digitally Remastered) - Jimmy Smith
7. Along Came John (Digitally Remastered 95) - John Patton
8. Grantstand (Rudy Van Gelder 24bit Mastering) - Grant Green
9. Good Gracious (Digitally Remastered 03) - Lou Donaldson
10. Our Miss Brooks (24-bit Mastering) - Harold Vick
11. Preach Brother (Digitally Remastered) - Fred Jackson
12. Us Three (20-bit Mastering) - Horace Parlan

Disc 2:

1. Wavy Gravy (Digitally Remastered 99) - Kenny Burrell
2. Sara's Dance (Rudy Van Gelder 24bit Mastering) - Stanley Turrentine
3. Plaza De Toros (24-bit Mastering) - Larry Young
4. Fat Judy - John Patton
5. Hi Heel Sneakers - Blue Mitchell
6. Dem Tambourines (Digitally Remastered) - Don Wilkerson
7. Googa Mooga - Freddy Roach
8. Amanda (Digitally Remastered) - Duke Pearson
9. Funky Mama (24-bit Mastering) - Lou Donaldson
10. Blackjack - Donald Byrd
11. Egypt Land - Fred Jackson