Genre: Jazz, Blues
Style: Bop, Contemporary Jazz, Ragtime, Big Band, Swing, Hard Bop, Cool Jazz, Latin Jazz
Country: US
Label(s): Smithsonian Folkways (SFW 40820)
1.01. Dick Hyman - Maple Leaf Rag 2:271.02. Bunk Johnson's Brass Band - In Gloryland 3:001.03. Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Livery Stable Blues 3:071.04. King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Dipper Mouth Blues 2:181.05. Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra - The Stampede 3:141.06. Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - Black Bottom Stomp 3:121.07. Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - Singin' the Blues (Till My Daddy Comes Home) 3:001.08. Bessie Smith & James Price Johnson - Back Water Blues 3:171.09. Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Black and Tan Fantasy 3:061.10. Bix Beiderbecke & Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - From Monday On 3:021.11. Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five - West End Blues 3:171.12. Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines - Weather Bird 2:421.13. Eddie Condon and His Hot Shots - That's a Serious Thing 3:291.14. Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson - Handful of Riffs 3:041.15. James Price Johnson - You've Got to Be Modernistic 3:101.16. Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Moten Swing 3:211.17. The Boswell Sisters - Everybody Loves My Baby 2:201.18. Sidney Bechet - Maple Leaf Rag 2:551.19. Fats Waller & His Rhythm - Dinah 3:061.20. Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra - Swing That Music 2:491.21. Meade "Lux" Lewis - Honky Tonk Train Blues 2:571.22. Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra - Mean to Me 3:061.23. Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra - For Dancers Only 2:371.24. Count Basie Orchestra - One O'Clock Jump 3:021.25. Chick Webb & His Orchestra - Harlem Congo 3:162.01. Quintette Du Hot Club De France - Minor Swing 3:142.02. Mary Lou Williams with Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy - Mary's Idea 2:562.03. Lionel Hampton - When Lights Are Low 2:122.04. Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra - Body and Soul 3:002.05. Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Honeysuckle Rose 2:592.06. Art Tatum - Tiger Rag 2:182.07. Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Ko-Ko 2:392.08. Cab Calloway & His Orchestra - Hard Times (Topsy Turvy) 3:172.09. The Chocolate Dandies - I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me 4:102.10. Artie Shaw & His Orchestra - Stardust 3:302.11. Gene Krupa & His Orchestra - Let Me Off Uptown 3:302.12. Dizzy Gillespie and His All Star Quintet - Shaw 'Nuff 3:082.13. Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra - Manteca 2:582.14. Mary Lou Williams - Virgo from the Zodiac Suite 3:062.15. Dexter Gordon - Dexter Rides Again 3:132.16. Lester Young-Buddy Rich Trio - I Want to Be Happy 3:562.17. Bud Powell - Indiana 2:432.18. The Charlie Parker Quintet - Embraceable You 3:432.19. Woody Herman & His Orchestra - Four Brothers 3:152.20. The Thelonious Monk Quartet - Misterioso 3:212.21. The Tadd Dameron S-tet - Lady Bird 2:502.22. Machito & His Afro-Cubans - Tanga 3:502.23. The George Shearing Quintet - September in the Rain 3:132.24. Lennie Tristano S-tet - Wow 3:203.01. The Miles Davis Nonet - Boplicity 2:593.02. Count Basie Octet - The Golden Bullet 2:273.03. Shorty Rogers and His Giants - Popo 3:013.04. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker - Walkin' Shoes 3:103.05. Stan Kenton - 23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West 3:093.06. Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet - Daahoud 4:023.07. The Modern Jazz Quartet - Django 7:013.08. Horace Silver and Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - The Preacher 4:173.09. Erroll Garner Trio - I'll Remember April 4:203.10. The Chico Hamilton Quintet - Jonaleh 2:183.11. Lucky Thompson Trio - Tricrotism 4:333.12. Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas 6:453.13. The Sun Ra Arkestra - Call for All Demons 5:113.14. The Nat King Cole Trio - When I Grow too Old to Dream 3:313.15. Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald - Stompin' at the Savoy 5:123.16. Stan Getz & J.J. Johnson - Blues in the Closet 9:023.17. The Oscar Peterson Trio - Ol' Man River 2:353.18. Miles Davis & His Orchestra Under the Direction of Gil Evans - Summertime 3:184.01. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin' 9:334.02. Count Basie Orchestra - Meet B. B. 3:274.03. The Miles Davis S-tet - So What 9:224.04. The John Coltrane Quartet - Giant Steps 4:434.05. Charles Mingus - Better Git It in Your Soul 7:224.06. The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Blue Rondo À La Turk 6:434.07. The Ornette Coleman Quartet - Ramblin' 6:344.08. Cannonball Adderley - Work Song 5:064.09. Sarah Vaughan - Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams 2:034.10. The John Coltrane Quartet - My Favorite Things, Part 1 (Single Version) 2:424.11. Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby 7:004.12. The George Russell S-tet - 'Round Midnight 6:334.13. Ella Fitzgerald with the Duke Ellington Orchestra - Cotton Tail 3:255.01. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - One by One 6:195.02. Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto - The Girl from Ipanema 5:225.03. The John Coltrane Quartet - A Love Supreme Part I: Acknowledgement 7:465.04. The Miles Davis Quintet - E.S.P. 5:285.05. Clark Terry & Bob Brookmeyer Quintet - Haig & Haig 4:285.06. Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery - King of the Road 4:105.07. Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Isfahan 4:115.08. Gary Burton - The New National Anthem (From a Genuine Tong Funeral) 6:385.09. Chick Corea - Matrix 6:255.10. Miles Davis - Miles Runs the Voodoo Down 2:495.11. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Celestial Terrestrial Commuters 2:535.12. Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man 6:295.13. Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band - Long Yellow Road 6:275.14. Cecil Taylor - Jitney No. 2 4:115.15. Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life 4:436.01. Anthony Braxton & Muhal Richard Abrams - Maple Leaf Rag 3:376.02. Weather Report - Birdland 5:566.03. Keith Jarrett - My Song 6:106.04. Irakere - Iya 5:536.05. The Art Ensemble of Chicago - Bush Magic 5:066.06. World Saxophone Quartet - Steppin' 7:156.07. Steve Coleman Group - The Glide Was in the Ride 3:586.08. Abdullah Ibrahim - Manenberg (Revisited) 6:076.09. Michael Brecker - Nothing Personal 5:316.10. Tito Puente - Airegin 4:126.11. Wynton Marsalis Septet - Down the Avenue 4:456.12. Nguyên Lê - Ting Ning 3:406.13. Masada - Kilayim 3:216.14. Medeski Martin & Wood - Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho 3:136.15. Martial Solal & Johnny Griffin - Neutralisme 4:306.16. Tomasz Stańko - Suspended Night Variation VIII 4:20More from: Various