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Summary:
- Encompasses many of the century's greatest artists delivering their most compelling performances.
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Table of Contents:
- (Back home again in) Indiana / James F. Hanley, Ballard MacDonald, (Original Dixieland Jazz Band) (3:25)
- St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy, (Bessie Smith) (3:11)
- Dippermouth blues / King Oliver, (King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band) (2:14)
- The stampede / Fletcher Henderson, (Fletcher Henderson and his orchestra) (3:14)
- Wild cat blues / Fats Waller, Clarence Williams, (Clarence Williams Blue Five ; Sidney Bechet) (2:58)
- Singin' the blues / J. Russel Robinson, Con Conrad, (Frankie Trumbauer and his orchestra ; Bix Beiderbecke) (3:01)
- West End blues / King Oliver, Clarence Williams, (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five ; Earl Hines) (3:15)
- Tiger rag / Harry De Costa, Eddie Edwards, Edwin Edwards, James LaRocca, Nick LaRocca, Henry W. Ragas, Antonio Sbarbaro, Tony Sbarbaro, Larry Shields, (Art Tatum) (2:19)
- God bless the child / Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday, (Billie Holiday) (2:54)
- Lester leaps in / Lester Young, (Count Basie's Kansas City Seven ; Lester Young) (3:13)
- Flying home / Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, (Benny Goodman Sextet; Charlie Christian ; Lionel Hampton) (3:17)
- I can't get started / Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin, (Dizzy Gillespie) (3:04)
- It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing / Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, (Duke Ellington and his orchestra) (3:10)
- 9:20 Special / Duke Ellington, Earle Warren, (Count Basie and his orchestra ; Coleman Hawkins) (3:11)
- Let me off uptown / Earl Bostic, Redd Evans, (Gene Krupa and his orchestra ; Roy Eldridge ; Anita O'Day) (2:58)
- T'aint what'cha do, it's the way how'cha do it / Sy Oliver, Trummy Young, (Jimmie Lunceford and his orchestra) (3:04)
- Four brothers / Jimmy Giuffre, (Woody Herman and his orchestra ; Stan Getz)
- Nica's dream / Horace Silver, (Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers ; Horace Silver) (11:52)
- So what / Miles Davis, (Miles Davis Sextet ; Cannonball Adderley ; John Coltrane ; Bill Evans) (9:03)
- Goodbye pork pie hat / Charles Mingus, (Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop) (4:47)
- Take five / Paul Desmond, (Dave Brubeck Quartet) (2:53)
- It's all right with me / Cole Porter, (Erroll Garner) (3:27)
- Straight, no chaser / Thelonious Monk, (Thelonious Monk Quartet) (4:32)
- Searching (pleading for love) / Steve Allen, Duke Ellington, (Duke Ellington) (1:46)
- Sanctuary / Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, (Miles Davis) (10:54)
- Meeting of the spirits / John McLaughlin, (Mahavishnu Orchestra ; John McLaughlin) (6:50)
- Watermelon man / Herbie Hancock, (Herbie Hancock) (6:28)
- Birdland / Joe Zawinul, (Weather Report) (5:56)
- The artist in America / Ornette Coleman, (Ornette Coleman ; London Symphony Orchestra) (3:55)
- Round midnight / Bernie Hanighen, Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams, (Dexter Gordon) (13:12)
- Steppin' out with my baby / Irving Berlin, (Tony Bennett) (3:15)
- A thousand autumns / Branford Marsalis, (Branford Marsalis Trio) (6:21)
- Freedom is in the trying / Wynton Marsalis, (Wynton Marsalis) (2:45).
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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Performers:
- Performed by various artists.
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Production Credits:
- Compilation producer: Phil Schaap.
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General Notes:
- Sony: J2K 65807 (JK 65808--JK 65809).
Title from disc label.
Selections recorded 1917-1996.
Selections previously released on analog discs by Columbia Records and OKeh Records.
Program notes by Dan Morgenstern (61 pages : illustrations) inserted.
From the collection of Rusty Rush
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Physical Description:
- 2 audio discs ; 4 3/4 in.
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Physical Characteristics:
- plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced
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Audio Characteristics:
- digital; optical; stereo
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Digital Characteristics:
- audio file; CD audio
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Call Numbers:
- LPCD
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Other Standard Numbers:
- Universal Product Code: 074646580721
Publisher Number, Sony: J2K 65807
Publisher Number, Sony: JK 65808--JK 65809
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Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2016623079
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OCLC Numbers:
- 42893852