Tracklist
A1 | Scott Joplin | Maple Leaf Rag | 3:16 |
A2 | Jelly Roll Morton | Maple Leaf Rag | 2:37 |
A3 | Robert Johnson | Hellhound On My Trail | 2:39 |
A4 | Bessie Smith | St. Louis Blues | 3:12 |
A5 | Bessie Smith | Lost Your Head Blues | 2:57 |
A6 | King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band | Dippermouth Blues | 2:23 |
A7 | Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers | Grandpa’s Spells | 2:55 |
A8 | Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers | Dead Man Blues | 3:00 |
B1 | Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers | Black Bottom Stomp | 3:14 |
B2 | The Red Onion Jazz Babies | Cake Walking Babies (From Home) | 3:28 |
B3 | Sidney Bechet And His Blue Note Jazzmen* | Blue Horizon | 4:26 |
B4 | James P. Johnson* | Carolina Shout | 2:47 |
B5 | Louis Armstrong And His Hot Five* | Struttin’ With Some Barbeque | 3:04 |
B6 | Louis Armstrong And His Hot Seven* | S.O.L. Blues (Excerpt) | 1:05 |
B7 | Louis Armstrong And His Hot Seven* | Potato Head Blues (Excerpt) | 1:14 |
B8 | Louis Armstrong And His Hot Five* | Hotter Than That | 3:02 |
B9 | Louis Armstrong And His Hot Five* | West End Blues | 3:17 |
C1 | Louis Armstrong And Earl Hines | Weather Bird | 2:46 |
C2 | Louis Armstrong And His Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra* | Sweethearts On Parade | 3:15 |
C3 | Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra | I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues | 2:59 |
C4 | Frankie Trumbauer And His Orchestra | Riverboat Shuffle | 3:15 |
C5 | Frankie Trumbauer And His Orchestra | Singin’ The Blues | 3:03 |
C6 | Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra | The Stampede | 3:18 |
C7 | Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra | Wrappin’ It Up | 2:48 |
C8 | Benny Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra* | Moten Swing | 3:26 |
D1 | Fats Waller | I Ain’t Got Nobody | 3:09 |
D2 | Meade “Lux” Lewis | Honky Tonk Train | 3:01 |
D3 | Benny Goodman Trio | Body And Soul | 3:30 |
D4 | Coleman Hawkins And His Orchestra | Body And Soul | 3:03 |
D5 | Coleman Hawkins Quartet | The Man I Love | 5:10 |
D6 | Billie Holiday And Her Orchestra | He’s Funny That Way | 2:41 |
D7 | Billie Holiday And Eddie Heywood And His Orchestra | All Of Me | 2:59 |
D8 | Ella Fitzgerald | You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To | 2:56 |
E1 | Art Tatum | Willow Weep For Me | 2:58 |
E2 | Art Tatum | Too Marvelous For Words | 2:25 |
E3 | Jimmie Lunceford And His Orchestra | Lunceford Special | 2:51 |
E4 | Gene Krupa And His Orchestra | Rockin’ Chair | 3:02 |
E5 | Roy Eldridge And Benny Carter | I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me (Excerpt) | 3:03 |
E6 | Lionel Hampton | When Lights Are Low | 2:15 |
E7 | Count Basie And His Orchestra* | Doggin’ Around | 2:57 |
E8 | Count Basie | Taxi War Dance | 2:55 |
F1 | Count Basie’s Kansas City Seven* | Lester Leaps In | 3:14 |
F2 | Benny Goodman Sextet | I Found A New Baby | 2:57 |
F3 | Benny Goodman Sextet : Charlie Christian | Blues Sequence (From Breakfast Feud) | 2:24 |
F4 | Duke Ellington And His Orchestra | East St. Louis Toodle-Oo | 3:38 |
F5 | Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra* | New East St. Louis Toodle-Oo | 3:04 |
F6 | Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra* | Creole Rhapsody | 6:00 |
F7 | Duke Ellington And His Orchestra | Harlem Air Shaft | 3:00 |
F8 | Duke Ellington And His Orchestra | Concerto For Cootie | 3:22 |
G1 | Duke Ellington And His Orchestra | In A Mellotone | 3:19 |
G2 | Duke Ellington And His Orchestra | Ko-Ko | 2:42 |
G3 | Duke Ellington And His Orchestra | Blue Serge | 3:22 |
G4 | Don Byas | I Got Rhythm | 5:07 |
G5 | Dizzy Gillespie Sextet | I Can’t Get Started | 3:08 |
G6 | Dizzy Gillespie’s All Star Quintet* | Shaw ‘Nuff | 2:57 |
G7 | Charlie Parker’s Re-Boppers | KoKo | 2:57 |
G8 | Charlie Parker | Embraceable You | 2:14 |
G9 | Charlie Parker | Embraceable You (Alternate Version) | 2:01 |
H1 | Charlie Parker Quintet* | Klacktoveedsedsteen | 3:02 |
H2 | Charlie Parker Sextet* | Little Benny | 3:30 |
H3 | Charlie Parker’s All Stars* | Parker’s Mood | 3:01 |
H4 | Erroll Garner | Fantasy On “Frankie And Johnny” | 2:55 |
H5 | Bud Powell Trio* | Somebody Loves Me | 2:48 |
H6 | Sarah Vaughan | Dancing In The Dark | 2:37 |
H7 | Sarah Vaughan | Ain’t No Use | 3:55 |
H8 | Lennie Tristano | Crosscurrent | 2:52 |
I1 | Miles Davis And His Orchestra | Boplicity | 3:03 |
I2 | Tadd Dameron’s Sextet* | Lady Bird | 2:54 |
I3 | Dexter Gordon Quartet | Bikini | 3:33 |
I4 | Thelonious Monk Quartet* | Misterioso | 3:22 |
I5 | Thelonious Monk Quintet* | Criss Cross | 3:00 |
I6 | Thelonious Monk | Evidence | 2:35 |
I7 | Thelonious Monk Quintet* | Smoke Gets In Your Eyes | 4:33 |
I8 | Thelonious Monk | I Should Care | 3:16 |
J1 | Thelonious Monk | Blues Improvisation (Excerpt) | 2:54 |
J2 | Miles Davis With Gil Evans’ Orchestra* | Summertime | 3:22 |
J3 | Sonny Rollins Quartet | Blue 7 | 11:23 |
J4 | The Modern Jazz Quartet | Django | 5:34 |
J5 | Charles Mingus And His Orchestra* | Hora Decubitus | 4:44 |
K1 | Sonny Rollins Plus Four | Pent-Up House (Excerpt) | 7:32 |
K2 | Cecil Taylor | Enter Evening | 11:05 |
K3 | Miles Davis Sextet* | So What | 9:11 |
L1 | Ornette Coleman | Lonely Woman | 5:03 |
L2 | Ornette Coleman | Congeniality | 6:45 |
L3 | Ornette Coleman | Free Jazz (Excerpt) | 10:14 |
L4 | John Coltrane | Alabama | 5:07 |