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Ken Burns JAZZ: The Story Of America's Music (Box Set) (CD)

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DISC 1 for Ken Burns JAZZ: The Story Of America's Music (Box Set) (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Stardust - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
2   Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' In My Room) - Mississippi Fred McDowell
3   Memphis Blues - Lieut. Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Band
4   Livery Stable Blues - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
5   Charleston - James P. Johnson
6   Chimes Blues - King Oliver & His Creole Jazz Band
7   Back Water Blues - Bessie Smith
8   Pearls, The - Jelly Roll Morton
9   Dead Man Blues - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
10   Wild Cat Blues - Clarence Williams' Blue Five
11   Cake Walkin' Babies (From Home) - Clarence Williams' 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   Mooche, The - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
17   East St. Louis Toodle-oo - Duke Ellington & His Washingtonians
18   Black Beauty - Duke Ellington
19   Mood Indigo - The Jungle Band
20   There Ain't No Sweet Man (Worth The Salt Of My Tears) - Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
21   Singin' The Blues - Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra
22   Riverboat Shuffle - Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra
23   Hotter Than 'Ell - Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra
24   I Got Rhythm - Ethel Waters
 
DISC 2 for Ken Burns JAZZ: The Story Of America's Music (Box Set) (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
2   Echoes Of Harlem - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
3   Moten Swing - Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
4   St. Louis Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
5   Ain't Misbehavin' - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
6   For Dancers Only - Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra
7   King Porter Stomp - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
8   Rose Room - Benny Goodman Sextet
9   Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing) - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
10   Jumpin' At The Woodside - Count Basie & His Orchestra
11   Sent For You Yesterday And Here You Come Today - Count Basie & His Orchestra
12   Lester Leaps In - Count Basie's Kansas City Seven
13   Oh, Lady Be Good - Jones-Smith Inc.
14   Without Your Love - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
15   Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
16   God Bless The Child - Billie Holiday/Eddie Heywood & His Orchestra
17   Three Little Words - Art Tatum
18   Rebecca - Pete Johnson/Big Joe Turner
19   Harlem Congo - Chick Webb & His Orchestra
20   A-Tisket, A-Tasket - Chick Webb & His Orchestra/Ella Fitzgerald
21   Shine - Django Reinhardt & Le Quartet Du Hot Club De France
22   Dear Old Southland - Noble Sissle & His Orchestra
 
DISC 3 for Ken Burns JAZZ: The Story Of America's Music (Box Set) (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Body And Soul - Coleman Hawkins
2   Cotton Tail - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
3   Take The "A" Train - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
4   Begin The Beguine - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
5   In The Mood - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
6   Well, Git It! - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
7   Solitude - Billie Holiday/Eddie Heywood & His Orchestra
8   Drum Boogie - Gene Krupa & His Orchestra
9   Salt Peanuts - Dizzy Gillespie & His All Star Quintet
10   Groovin' High - Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
11   Ko-Ko - Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers
12   Scrapple From The Apple - Charlie Parker Quintet
13   Embraceable You - Charlie Parker Quintet
14   Get Happy - Bud Powell Trio
15   Epistrophy - Thelonious Monk
16   Straight, No Chaser - Thelonious Monk
17   Manteca - Dizzy Gillespie
18   Moon Dreams - Miles Davis Nonet
19   Just Friends - Charlie Parker
20   Rockin' Chair - Louis Armstrong
21   They Can't Take That Away From Me - Sarah Vaughan & Her Trio
22   Walkin' Shoes - Chet Baker/Gerry Mulligan
23   Fine And Mellow - Billie Holiday
 
DISC 4 for Ken Burns JAZZ: The Story Of America's Music (Box Set) (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Doodlin' - Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers
2   I Get A Kick Out Of You - Clifford Brown/Max Roach
3   St. Thomas - Sonny Rollins
4   Django - Modern Jazz Quartet
5   Take Five - Dave Brubeck Quartet
6   So What - Miles Davis Sextet
7   Giant Steps - John Coltrane Quartet
8   Rick Kick Shaw - Cecil Taylor Trio
9   Chronology - Ornette Coleman
10   Original Faubus Fables - Charles Mingus
11   Acknowledgement - John Coltrane Quartet (from "A Love Supreme")
 
DISC 5 for Ken Burns JAZZ: The Story Of America's Music (Box Set) (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Hello, Dolly! - Louis Armstrong
2   Desafinado - Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd
3   In A Sentimental Mood - Duke Ellington/John Coltrane
4   Tourist Point Of View - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
5   E.S.P. - The Miles Davis Quintet
6   Spanish Key - Miles Davis (single version)
7   Birdland - Weather Report
8   Mister Magic - Grover Washington Jr.
9   Rockit - Herbie Hancock
10   Un Ange En Danger - MC Solaar/Ron Carter
11   Tanya - Dexter Gordon
12   Soon All Will Know - Wynton Marsalis
13   Death Letter - Cassandra Wilson
14   Take The "A" Train - Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (12/1/00, p.95) - "...Gathers many of the 20th century's greatest recordings...that belong in any library....providing as richly rewarding an overview of jazz...as any available..." - Rating: A-

Title Note

Compilation producers include: Ken Burns, Steve Berkowitz, Sarah Botstein, Michael Cuscuna, Peter Miller.

Includes liner notes by Geoffrey C. Ward, Michael Cuscuna, and Loren Schoenberg.

Digitally remastered by Seth Foster and Mark Wilder (Sony Studios, New York, New York) and Kevin Reeves (Universal Mastering Studios-East, Edison, New Jersey).

This is part of the Columbia/Legacy Ken Burns JAZZ series.

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is renowned for the thoughtful approach he takes to big subjects (baseball, the Civil War, etc.). Jazz fans are fortunate to have someone as intellectually curious as Burns to chronicle the music. As expected, he takes the historian's view that's needed to really cover the story of jazz's development. The fact that a five-disc box can barely scratch the surface speaks more about jazz's rich legacy than it does about any shortcomings of this impressive soundtrack to Burns' work.

The discs are divided up chronologically, moving from the Dixieland sound of Louis Armstrong and King Oliver to the big bands of Duke Ellington, on to the bop innovations of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. If this set is lacking in its representation of more "modern" jazz variants (free jazz and beyond), it's only because the 1920s and '30s material that gives the box much of its heft is such an endangered species in need of careful attention. The jazz innovations of the latter 20th century are well catalogued elsewhere, but the nearly lost world of pre-swing is what this box illuminates best.

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