The Complete History of Jazz 1899-1959
The Complete History of Jazz 1
...the set charts a clear itinerary through the development of the music, which makes it a good historical basis for seasoned fan or novice alike. —
4 CDs
$17.25Contents
Disc 1
Scott Joplin - Maple Leaf Rag 3.15
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Tiger Rag 3.36
Kid Ory's Sunshine Orchestra - Ory's Creole Trombone 3.22
King Oliver - Dippermouth Blues 2.26
New Orleans Rhythm Kings - Tin Roof Blues 3.00
Clarence Williams' Blue Five - Wild Cat Blues 2.59
Andrew Hilaire (Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers) - Black Bottom Stomp 3.09
Russell's Hot Six - 29th and Dearborn 2.47
Louis Armstrong - Potato Head Blues 2.54
Baby Dodds (Jelly Roll Morton) - Wolverine Blues 3.16
Jimmy Noone's Apex Club Orchestra - Apex Blues 2.56
Bunk Johnson's Street Paraders - Make Me a Pallet On the Floor 3.46
Bessie Smith - Backwater Blues 3.17
Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra - Singing the Blues 3.03
Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang - Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down 3.07
Joe Venuti's Blue Four - A Mug of Ale 3.00
The Chicago Rhythm Kings - I've Found a New Baby 3.10
Fats Waller - Handful of Keys 2.45
The Louisiana Rhythm Kings - Basin Street Blues 3.16
Don Redman and His Orchestra - Chant of the Weed 3.13
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Toby 3.23
Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra - Down South Camp Meeting 2.57
Red Allen & Coleman Hawkins - Jamaica Shout 3.00
Benny Carter - Devil's Holiday 3.06
Eddie Condon & His Orchestra - The Eel 3.02
Disc 2
Chick Webb's Savoy Orchestra - Stomping at the Savoy 3.08
Art Tatum - Liza 2.55
Ben Thigpen (Andy Kirk & His Clouds Of Joy) - Walkin' & Swingin' 2.41
Count Basie - One O'clock Jump 3.01
Billie Holiday - This Year's Kisses 3.08
Tommy Dorsey - I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 3.28
Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra - For Dancers Only 2.41
Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra - I Can't Get Started 4.45
Teddy Wilson - Rosetta 2.48
Bob Crosby and His Orchestra - South Rampart Street Parade 3.28
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Don't Be That Way 3.20
- At the Clambake Carnival 2.29
Chu Berry and his 'Little Jazz' Ensemble - Forty Six West Fifty Two 2.31
Johnny Hodges - Jeep's Blues 2.52
Harry James & The Boogie Woogie Trio - Woo Woo 3.14
Pee Wee Russell's Rhythmakers - Dinah 2.37
Coleman Hawkins and his Orchestra - Body and Soul 2.58
Duke Ellington - Ko-ko 2.40
Charlie Christian - Wholly Cats 3.10
Jack Teagarden's Big Eight - Shine 3.55
Glenn Miller - In the Mood 3.35
Django Reinhardt - Nuages 3.15
Artie Shaw - Stardust 3.36
Gene Krupa - Let Me Off Uptown 3.07
Lionel Hampton - Flying Home 3.07
Disc 3
Lester Young - Sometimes I'm Happy 3.05
Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra - Blowing the Blues Away 3.10
Dizzy Gillespie All Stars - Good Bait 2.57
J.C. Heard (Red Norvo & His Selected Sextet) - Congo Blues 3.50
Charlie Parker's Reboppers - Ko-ko 2.54
Don Byas - Super Session 3.00
Jay Jay Johnson's Beboppers - Jay Bird 2.56
The Bebop Boys - Webb City 5.41
Bud Powell Trio - Indiana 2.36
Chuck Thompson (Dexter Gordon Quintet) - The Chase 6.44
Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra - Thrivin' On a Riff 3.03
Tiny Kahn (Red Rodney's Be-boppers) - All God's Children Got Rhythm 2.46
Ella Fitzgerald - How High the Moon 3.11
Fats Navarro - Nostalgia 2.42
Shadow Wilson (Leo Parker's All Stars) & Wee Dot - Wee Dot 2.23
Don Lamond (Woody Herman & His Orchestra) - Four Brothers 3.16
Thelonious Monk - Misterioso 3.20
Kenny Clarke & The Tadd Dameron Sextet - Lady Bird 2.49
James Moody's Modernists - Tin Tin Deo 2.44
Lennie Tristano - Wow 3.21
George Shearing - Conception 2.53
Charlie Ventura - East of Suez 3.27
Disc 4
Shorty Rogers - Over the Rainbow 2.58
Stan Getz - The Song Is You 2.46
Gerry Mulligan - Bernie's Tune 2.50
Stan Kenton and His Orchestra - Young Blood 3.12
Chet Baker - Look for the Silver Lining 2.38
Sarah Vaughan - Shulie a Bop 2.47
Clifford Brown - Daahoud 3.58
Ben Webster & Art Tatum Quartet - Night and Day 5.30
Horace Silver - The Preacher 4.16
Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas 6.44
Miles Davis - Round About Midnight 5.55
Art Pepper - Straight Life 4.05
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin' 9.35
Ornette Coleman - The Blessing 4.45
John Coltrane - Giant Steps 4.46
Dave Brubeck - Take Five 5.26
Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 5.44