Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music

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A very decent overview of what Jazz was.
Dig it if you want that kind of Listener Digest "first contact" with jazz.

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Tracklist

# Title Artist Rating Length
  CD 1
1 Stardust Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra 3:35
2 Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' in My Room) Mississippi Fred McDowell 3:14
3 Memphis Blues Lieut. Jim Europe's 369th Infantry 'Hell Fighters' Band 2:38
4 Livery Stable Blues Original Dixieland Jazz Band 3:07
5 Charleston James P. Johnson 1:49
6 Chimes Blues King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band 2:52
7 Back Water Blues Bessie Smith 3:19
8 The Pearls Jelly Roll Morton 2:51
9 Dead Man Blues
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers 3:15
10 Wild Cat Blues Clarence Williams' Blue Five 3:02
11 Cake Walkin' Babies (From Home) Clarence Williams' Blue Five 2:57
12 Sugar Foot Stomp Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra 2:50
13 Heebie Jeebies Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five 2:53
14 Potato Head Blues
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven 2:57
15 West End Blues Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five 3:20
16 The Mooche Duke Ellington & His Orchestra 3:14
17 East St. Louis Toodle-Oo Duke Ellington & His Orchestra 2:54
18 Black Beauty Duke Ellington 3:03
19 Mood Indigo The Jungle Band 3:09
20 There Ain't No Sweet Man (Worth the Salt of My Tears) (feat. Bix Beiderbecke)
Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra 3:31
21 Singin' the Blues (feat. Bix Beiderbecke)
Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra 3:02
22 Riverboat Shuffle (feat. Bix Beiderbecke)
Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra 3:09
23 Hotter Than 'Ell Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra 2:57
24 I Got Rhythm Ethel Waters 3:04
  CD 2
1 It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra 3:11
2 Echoes of Harlem Duke Ellington & His Orchestra 3:02
3 Moten Swing Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra 3:26
4 St. Louis Blues Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra 3:03
5 Ain't Misbehavin'
Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra 3:15
6 For Dancers Only Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra 2:40
7 King Porter Stomp Benny Goodman and His Orchestra 3:12
8 Rose Room The Benny Goodman Sextet 2:50
9 Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) Benny Goodman and His Orchestra 8:41
10 Jumpin' at the Woodside Count Basie & His Orchestra 3:11
11 Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today Count Basie & His Orchestra 2:59
12 Lester Leaps In Count Basie and the Kansas City 7 3:16
13 Oh, Lady Be Good Jones-Smith Incorporated 3:09
14 Without Your Love Billie Holiday 2:55
15 Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday 3:15
16 God Bless the Child (feat. Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra) Billie Holiday 2:57
17 Three Little Words Art Tatum 2:27
18 Rebecca Pete Johnson and Big Joe Turner 2:44
19 Harlem Congo Chick Webb and His Orchestra 3:18
20 A-Tisket A-Tasket (feat. Ella Fitzgerald)
Chick Webb and His Orchestra 2:40
21 Shine Django Reinhardt 2:59
22 Dear Old Southland (feat. Sidney Bechet)
Noble Sissle and His Orchestra 2:35
  CD 3
1 Body and Soul Coleman Hawkins 3:04
2 Cotton Tail Duke Ellington & His Orchestra 3:15
3 Take the "A" Train Duke Ellington & His Orchestra 2:58
4 Begin the Beguine Artie Shaw 3:16
5 In the Mood The Glenn Miller Orchestra 3:37
6 Well, Git It! Tommy Dorsey 3:04
7 Solitude (feat. Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra)
Billie Holiday 3:16
8 Drum Boogie Gene Krupa 3:09
9 Salt Peanuts Dizzy Gillespie 3:15
10 Groovin' High Dizzy Gillespie 2:43
11 Ko-Ko Charlie Parker 2:56
12 Scrapple From the Apple Charlie Parker 3:00
13 Embraceable You Charlie Parker 3:46
14 Get Happy Bud Powell 2:53
15 Epistrophy Thelonious Monk 3:09
16 Straight, No Chaser Thelonious Monk 2:57
17 Manteca Dizzy Gillespie 3:09
18 Moon Dreams Miles Davis 4 3:20
19 Just Friends Charlie Parker 3:33
20 Rockin' Chair Louis Armstrong 3:07
21 They Can't Take That Away From Me Sarah Vaughan 2:43
22 Walkin' Shoes (feat. Gerry Mulligan)
Chet Baker 3:13
23 Fine and Mellow Billie Holiday 8:01
  CD 4
1 Doodlin' Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers 6:47
2 I Get a Kick Out of You Clifford Brown & Max Roach 7:42
3 St. Thomas Sonny Rollins 6:45
4 Django
The Modern Jazz Quartet 7:06
5 Take Five
The Dave Brubeck Quartet 5:26
6 So What Miles Davis Sextet 9:23
7 Giant Steps
John Coltrane 4:47
8 Rick Kick Shaw
Cecil Taylor 6:06
9 Chronology Ornette Coleman 6:07
10 Original Faubus Fables Charles Mingus 9:16
11 Acknowledgment John Coltrane Quartet 7:47
  CD 5
1 Hello, Dolly!
Louis Armstrong 2:25
2 Desafinado
Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd 5:51
3 In a Sentimental Mood Duke Ellington & John Coltrane 4:16
4 Tourist Point of View Duke Ellington & His Orchestra 5:09
5 E.S.P. Miles Davis Quintet 5:30
6 Spanish Key (single version) Miles Davis 2:51
7 Birdland
Weather Report 5:58
8 Mister Magic Grover Washington, Jr. 9:02
9 Rockit Herbie Hancock 3:57
10 Un ange en danger
MC Solaar & Ron Carter 3:51
11 Tanya Dexter Gordon 7:26
12 Soon All Will Know
Wynton Marsalis 3:37
13 Death Letter Cassandra Wilson 4:14
14 Take the "A" Train Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra 5:35

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