- Format: CD
- Label: Fantasy
- Genre: Jazz
During the 1940s brothers Max and Sol Weiss operated a San Francisco plastic molding business that included a record pressing plant, one of whose early clients was pianist Dave Brubeck. Due to the local success of the Brubeck discs, the pressing plant metamorphosed into a label, which the Weisses named Fantasy after a science-fiction magazine. Besides such jazz musicians as Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Cal Tjader, and Vince Guaraldi, the Weisses signed all manner of performers, including comedian Lenny Bruce. Since 1968, when Fantasy was acquired by former sales manager Saul Zaentz and his partners, the label has had major successes with Creedence Clearwater Revival, r&b groups such as the Blackbyrds, and soundtrack recordings like Amadeus, but this collection focuses on Fantasy's remarkable jazz roster of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s.
Track listing:Vince Guaraldi: Cast Your Fate to the Wind; Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker: My Funny Valentine; Lucy Reed: It's All Right With Me; Woody Herman: Lazy Bird; Cal Tjader: Manuel's Mambo; Bill Harris: Crazy Rhythm; Kenny Burrell: Blues in the Night; Tony Bennett/Bill Evans: Young and Foolish; Mongo Santamaria: Que Maravilloso; Brew Moore: Them Old Blues; Dave Brubeck Quartet: I'll Never Smile Again; Stanley Turrentine: Hope That We Can Be Together Soon; Bill Evans: Sweet Dulcinea Blue; Cal Tjader: A Minor Goof; Paul Desmond: Jeruvian; Paul Gonsalves/Roy Eldridge: C-Jam Blues; Stan Getz/Cal Tjader: Ginza Samba
