From its early beginnings in the 1920s through to the early 1960s we present 60 examples of this vital music showing what a broad church Jazz is. We feature all of the key musicians who recorded throughout this fertile time for the genre

• - 1 -

  • 1. Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Tiger Rag
  • 2. King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Dippermouth Blues
  • 3. Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - Black Bottom Stomp
  • 4. Bix Beiderbecke - In a Mist
  • 5. Louis Armstrong - West End Blues
  • 6. Cab Calloway - Minnie the Moocher
  • 7. Stephane Grappelli - I've Found a New Baby
  • 8. Count Basie and His Orchestra - One O'Clock Jump
  • 9. Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Sing, Sing, Sing
  • 10. Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra - Body and Soul
  • 11. Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - In the Mood
  • 12. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
  • 13. Harry James and the Boogie Woogie Trio - Woo Woo
  • 14. Django Reinhardt Nuages
  • 15. Gene Krupa and His Orchestra - Let Me Off Uptown
  • 16. Charlie Christian - Solo Flight
  • 17. Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - Take the 'A' Train
  • 18. Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra - Flying Home
  • 19. Artie Shaw and His Orchestra Stardust
  • 20. Lena Horne - Stormy Weather

• - 2 -

  • 1. Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin'
  • 2. The Lester Young Quartet - Sometimes I'm Happy
  • 3. The Ben Webster Quintet - Don't Blame Me
  • 4. Dizzy Gillespie - a Night In Tunisia
  • 5. Charlie Parker - Yardbird Suite
  • 6. The Baby Dodds Trio - Buddy Bolden Blues
  • 7. Sarah Vaughan - It Might As Well Be Spring
  • 8. Thelonious Monk - 'Round Midnight
  • 9. Bud Powell - Bouncing With Bud
  • 10. Sidney Bechet and His All Star Band - Petite Fleur
  • 11. George Shearing - Lullaby of Birdland
  • 12. Peggy Lee - Black Coffee
  • 13. Gerry Mulligan - Moonlight In Vermont
  • 14. Frank Sinatra - My Funny Valentine
  • 15. The Errol Garner Trio Misty
  • 16. The Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet Daahoud
  • 17. Horace Silver - the Preacher
  • 18. Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas
  • 19. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
  • 20. Ella Fitzgerald With Louis Armstrong Summertime

• - 3 -

  • 1. Oscar Peterson - Blue Moon
  • 2. Chet Baker - Let's Get Lost
  • 3. Roland Kirk - a La Carte
  • 4. Blossom Dearie - Thou Swell /
  • 5. Humphrey Lyttelton - Bad Penny Blues
  • 6. Nina Simone - I Loves You, Porgy
  • 7. Art Pepper - Straight Life
  • 8. Cannonball Adderley - a Foggy Day
  • 9. Wes Montgomery - Fingerpickin'
  • 10. Ornette Coleman- the Blessing
  • 11. The John Coltrane Quartet Naima
  • 12. Dave Brubeck - Take Five
  • 13. Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
  • 14. Miles Davis - Blue In Green
  • 15. Etta James - At Last
  • 16. Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind
  • 17. Bill Evans - Haunted Heart
  • 18. Dinah Washington - September In the Rain
  • 19. Stan Getz Desafinado
  • 20. Wayne Shorter - Black Orpheus