1. Star Dust - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
2. Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' in My Room0 - Mississippi
3. Memphis Blues - Lieut. Jim Europe's 369th Infantry ("Hell Fighters") Band
4. Livery Stable Blues - The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
5. Charleston - James P. Johnson
6. Chimes Blues - King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
7. Back Water Blues - Bessie Smith
8. The Pearls - Jelly Roll Morton
9. Dead Man Blues - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
10. Wild Cat Blues - Clarence Williams's Blue Five
11. Cake Walkin' Babies (From Home) - Clarence Williams's Blue Five
12. Sugar Foot Stomp - Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra
13. Heebie Jeebies - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five
14. Potato Head Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
15. West End Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five
16. The Mooche - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
17. East St. Louis Toodle-Oo - Duke Ellington & His Washingtonians
18. Black Beauty - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
19. Mood Indigo - The Jungle Band
20. There Ain't No Sweet Man (Worth The Salt Of My Tears) - Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke
21. Singin' The Blues - Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke
22. Riverboat Shuffle - Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke
23. Hotter Than 'Ell - Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra
24. I Got Rhythm - Ethel Waters
25. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
26. Echoes of Harlem - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
27. Moten Swing - Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
28. St. Louis blues - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
29. Ain't Misbehavin' - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
30. For Dancers Only - Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra
31. King Porter Stomp - Benny goodman & His Orchestra
32. Rose Room - The Benny Goodman Sextet
33. Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) - Benny Goodman Sextet
34. Jumpin' at the Woodside - Count Basie & His Orchestra
35. Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today - Count Basie & His Orchestra
36. Lester Leaps In - Count Basie's Kansas City Seven
37. Oh, Lady, Be Good! - Jones-Smith Incorporated
38. Without Your Love - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
39. Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
40. God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood & His Orchestra
41. Three Little Words - Art Tatum
42. Rebecca - Pete Johnson & "Big" Joe Turner
43. Harlem Congo - Chick Webb & His Orchestra
44. A-Tisket, A-Tasket - Chick Webb & His Orchestra featuring Ella Fitzgerald
45. Shine - Django Reinhardt & Le Quartet du Hot Club de France
46. Dear Old Southland - Noble Sissle & His Orchestra
47. Body and Soul - Coleman Hawkins
48. Cotton Tail - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
49. Take the 'A' Train - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
50. Begin the Beguine - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
51. In The Mood - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
52. Well, Git It! - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
53. Solitude - Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood & His Orchestra
54. Drum Boogie - Gene Krupa & His Orchestra
55. Salt Peanuts - Dizzy Gillespie & His All Star Quintet
56. Groovin' High - Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
57. Ko-ko - Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers
58. Scrapple From the Apple - Charlie Parker Quintet
59. Enbraceable You - Charlie Parker Quintet
60. Get Happy - Bud Powell Trio
61. Epistrophy - Thelonious Monk
62. Straight, No Chaser - Thelonious Monk
63. Manteca - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
64. Moon Dreams - Miles Davis Nonet
65. Just Friends - Charlie Parker
66. Rockin' Chair - Louis Armstrong
67. They Can't Take That Away From Me - Sarah Vaughan & Her Trio
68. Walkin' Shoes - Chet Baker & Gerry Mulligan
69. Fine and Mellow - Billie Holiday
70. Doodlin' - Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers
71. I Get A Kick Out of You - Clifford Brown & Max Roach
72. St. Thomas - Sonny Rollins
73. Django - The Modern Jazz Quartet
74. Take Five - The Dave Brubeck Quartet
75. So What - Miles Davis Sextet
76. Giant Steps - John Coltrane
77. Rick Kick Shaw - Cecil Taylor Trio
78. Chronology - Ornette Coleman
79. Original Faubus Fables - Charles Mingus
80. Acknowledgment - John Coltrane Quartet
81. Hello, Dolly! - Louis Armstrong
82. Desafinado - Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd
83. In a Sentimental Mood - Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
84. Tourist Point of View - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
85. E.S.P. - The Miles Davis Quintet
86. Spanish Key (single version) - Miles Davis
87. Birdland - Weather Report
88. Mister Magic - Grover Washington, Jr
89. Rockit - Herbie Hancock
90. Un Ange en Danger - M.C. Solaar & Ron Carter
91. Tanya - Dexter Gordon
92. Soon All Will Know - Wynton Marsalis
93. Death Letter - Cassandra Wilson
94. Take The "A" Train - The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
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This five-CD box set soundtrack to filmmaker Ken Burns's 10-part, 19-hour documentary Jazz spans nearly a century of jazz styles, from the martial rhythms of James Reese Europe to the soul-jazz of Grover Washington Jr. It includes time-tested classics like Benny Goodman's 1938 classic, "Sing, Sing, Sing"; John Coltrane's chanting 1965 immortal track, "A Love Supreme"; Billie Holiday's blue-ember ballad, "God Bless the Child"; and Ella Fitzgerald peeling off "A-Tisket A-Tasket." Bebop is represented by Charlie Parker's orchestral bop version of "Just Friends"; Thelonious Monk's nocturnal calling card, "'Round Midnight"; and Dizzy Gillespie's "Salt Peanuts" and "Groovin' High." The jazz-instrumentalist-as-singer comes to life on Coleman Hawkins's "Body and Soul" and Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers' "Doodlin'." Clifford Brown and Max Roach's "I Get a Kick out of You" epitomizes the hard-bop era, while Miles Davis's "So What" stands as the modal masterpiece. The cool school is in session with Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan dishing out "Walkin' Shoes," and the Modern Jazz Quartet's soulful elegy "Django" straddles all the above musical orbits. As for Django Reinhardt, he's featured on "Shine" with the justly famed Le Quartet du Hot Club de France. Louis Armstrong's "West End Blues" and "Potato Head Blues" and Duke Ellington's rousing rendition of Billy Strayhorn's anthem, "Take the A Train," and his moody "Solitude" show why they are the Olympian masters of this art form--and the most frequently featured artists in the series. Although Ken Burns tries bringing the music up-to-date with Wynton Marsalis, Cassandra Wilson, and two jazz-hip-hop-influenced tracks--Herbie Hancock's robotic "Rockit" and the French-language "Un Aige en Danger" by MC Solaar and bass legend Ron Carter--there are significant holes here. After Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman, the avant-garde period from the late 1960s to the 1980s is lacking. And aside from the bossa nova hit "Desafinado," Latin jazz is also missing. It's a tough task summarizing jazz in five CDs, and Burns has given us a vibrant and vivid multicolored aural portrait of the music. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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Ken Burns's Jazz: The Story of American Music
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2000-11-14)
- Publisher: Sony
- Label: Sony
- Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
- Studio: Sony
- Average Customer Review:
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- Sales Rank in Music: #1547
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Summary: Not the whole story, but a good start 2008-02-25
Comment: When I discussed the Ric Burns documentary about the old West with an Amerindian acquaintance, I complained that the film concentrated on the Lakota, to the exclusion of other peoples. My friend answered that, as the Lakota was the best known native American culture, that was a good place to start, and the audience would then move on to learn about other parts of the story.
I suppose the same is true of the documentary by Ric's brother Ken Burns, on the history of Jazz, on which this box set is based. It is heavy on Louis Armstrong and on the Big Band sound of the Swing era - probably the Jazz best known to the general public - but light in other areas, including the many, varied strands of Jazz in the last 30 years or so. There is a whole series of albums in the Ken Burns Jazz Collection, featuring individual artists, for those who want to pursue the story and start to fill in the gaps.
It is easy to list regrettable omissions from this set (and many reviewers have done so) and just as easy to point out how impossible it is to do full justice to a century of music that had multiple sources and spread rapidly to a plethora of sub-genres (and many reviewers have done that too). The omission of Erroll Garner is one that struck me, especially ironic as the booklet accompanying this set has his name displayed on the cover! The British Trad Jazz that took hold in the early 50s and is still going strong (Chris Barber, Kenny Ball and their followers) is another indispensible part of Jazz history that finds no place in this collection. I realize that this is specifically titled the story of American music, but Django Reinhardt gets a look in, as does some forgettable French rapper.
But this collection of 94 tracks, featuring recordings from 1917 to 1995, attractively packaged and with good notes, remains a great introduction to Jazz. In fact, now that the price has come down so much, it can be recommended for every music fan.
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Summary: KEN BURNS JAZZ 2008-01-28
Comment: this music is classic jazz!
for anyone starting a jazz collection, you need this set.
if you like the pbs jazz series, your gonna love this music!
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Summary: A Good Selection, An Odd Accompaniment to the Documentary 2007-04-25
Comment: To chronicle the first six decades or so of American jazz in five CD's is an ambitious undertaking. Ken Burns pulled it off by making it the soundtrack to stories he wanted to tell. This made for heavy representation of songs from Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis easy choices. The documentary, in some ways, tells like an allegory of racism and civil rights in 20th century America, yet the soundrack includes white musicians like Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Dave Brubek and Benny Goodman in the CD selections. Brubek's inclusion is particularly notable after the documentary was so dismissive of "West Coast Jazz" - I don't even remember Take 5 being mentioned in the documentary. It would have been nice to include Bill Evans since every jazz pianist that followed him credited Evans as an influence, but his work as side man on "So What" is all we get. Herbie Hancock's Rockit is nowhere close to representative of his body of work. My main disappointment is that after Free Jazz and the like, jazz had nowhere left to go except backwards, yet the contemporary "pop" jazz at the end comes across as the latest and greatest thing yet. I respectfully disagree.
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Summary: Great Intro to Jazz 2007-03-23
Comment: For those just getting into Jazz or just need a refresher course this is a great CD. I brought it for my husband who is a big Jazz fan and he just loves it and gets alot of use out of them.
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Summary: Ken Burn's Jazz CD 2007-01-14
Comment: A great cd with many remastered original recordings of jazz greats. Each cd features a different jazz era, so one can select a jazz genre to suit one's mood.
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