Hip-O Records
2006
Millennium Collection: 20th Century Masters
About This Album
According to Martin Huxley's liner notes, Dave Grusin has released more than 25 albums; only six of those albums are drawn upon for this discount-priced compilation. (Universal Music's 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection best-of CDs are intended to have a retail price of about ten dollars.) Thus, this is, as Huxley puts it, "a sampling of Grusin's prodigious output," and it's one that bears a similarity to earlier, somewhat longer roundups. Five of the ten selections, "Theme from St. Elsewhere," "Serengeti Walk," "Early AM Attitude," "Bossa Baroque," and "On Golden Pond," appeared on 1990's Dave Grusin Collection; "Theme from St. Elsewhere" and "Rag Bag" were both on Priceless Jazz (1998); and "Bossa Baroque," "Early AM Attitude," and "Peter Gunn" were all on The Very Best of Dave Grusin in 2002. Of course, Grusin co-founded his own record company (he's the "G" in GRP), albeit one that has long since been subsumed into a major label, and he may retain control over how his tracks are repackaged; he seems to know which ones he thinks are the best.
Track List (try tracks 1,6 and 8)

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