Tracklist

# Title Artist Rating Length
  CD 1
11 Empty Bed Blues Bessie Smith 3:05
22 Fine and Mellow
Billie Holiday 3:13
33 Ragtime Music Billie Holiday 0:34
44 Maple Leaf Rag Scott Joplin 3:23
55 Elegie Art Tatum 2:27
66 Early New Orleans Dixieland Jazz Art Tatum 1:19
77 Dippermouth Blues King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band 2:37
88 Chicago Style Dixieland Jazz King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band 1:08
99 West End Blues Louis Armstrong 3:20
1010 Boogie Woogie Louis Armstrong 0:43
1111 Honky Tonk Train Blues Meade Lux Lewis 3:02
1212 Swing Jazz Meade Lux Lewis 1:08
1313 Wrappin' It Up Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra 2:46
1414 In a Mellotone Duke Ellington & His Orchestra 3:20
1515 Taxi War Dance Count Basie & His Orchestra 2:51
1616 The Man I Love Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra 2:35
1717 I Got Rhythm The Benny Goodman Quartet 5:08
1818 Bop Jazz The Benny Goodman Quartet 0:54
1919 Shaw 'Nuff Dizzy Gillespie & His All Stars 3:00
2020 Bag's Groove Thelonious Monk 2:53
2121 Cool Jazz Thelonious Monk 1:31
2222 Lester Leaps In Count Basie & His Orchestra 3:17
2323 Summertime Miles Davis 3:22
2424 Funky Jazz Miles Davis 1:20
2525 Stop Time The Horace Silver Quintet 4:08
2626 Eclipse Charles Mingus 3:00
2727 Blue 7 Sonny Rollins 8:16
  CD 2
11 E.T.A. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers feat. Wynton Marsalis 6:14
22 Free Form Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers 2:12
33 Faces and Places Ornette Coleman 7:18
44 A Love Supreme, Part 1 ("Acknowledgement")
John Coltrane 7:50
55 Django The Modern Jazz Quartet 7:06
66 Donna Lee Tito Puente 4:35
77 Bitches Brew Miles Davis 8:05
88 Stretch It, Part 1 Chick Corea Quartet 0:56
99 Birdland Weather Report 6:00
1010 Itsbynne Reel Michael Brecker 7:44
1111 Out of Town Yellowjackets 5:06
1212 Top Secret [unknown] 6:21
1313 Melody without jazz Interpretation [unknown] 0:26
1414 Melody with jazz interpretation [unknown] 0:23
1515 Melody with improvisation [unknown] 0:22
1616 Bending a minor third to a major third [unknown] 0:10
1717 Bending a fifth downward to a flattened fifth [unknown] 0:09
1818 Bending a tone upward to no specific pitch [unknown] 0:06
1919 Bending a tone downward to no specific pitch [unknown] 0:07
2020 A hymnlike melody used with the blues [unknown] 0:36
2121 The same melody with jazz interpretation [unknown] 0:35

Relationships

composer:
John Coltrane (track 2.4)
Billie Holiday (track 1.2)
double bass / contrabass / acoustic upright bass:
Jimmy Garrison (track 2.4)
drums:
Elvin Jones (track 2.4)
piano:
McCoy Tyner (track 2.4)
tenor saxophone:
John Coltrane (track 2.4)
remasters:
recording of:
Fine and Mellow (track 1.2)