Menasha Public Library (Elisha D. Smith)

Ken Burns jazz, the story of America's music

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biography of performer or history of ensemble

jazz

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Ken Burns jazz

compact disc

45588616

Recorded 1926-1992

the story of America's music

Star dust (Louis Armstrong and his orchestra) -- Soon one mornin' (death come a-creepin' in my room) (Mississippi Fred McDowell) -- Memphis blues (Lieut. Jim Europe's 369th Infantry ("Hell fighters") Band) -- Livery stable blues (The original Dixieland jazz band) -- Charleston (James P. Johnson) -- Chimes blues (King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band) -- Back water blues (Bessie Smith) -- The pearls (Jelly Roll Morton) -- Dead man blues (Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers) -- Wild cat blues ; Cake walkin' babies (from home) (Clarence Williams's Blue Five) -- Sugar foot stomp (Fletcher Henderson and his orchestra) -- Heebie Jeebies (Louis Armstrong and his hot five) -- Potato head blues (Louis Armstrong and his hot seven) -- West End blues (Louis Armstrong and his hot five) -- The moochie (Duke Ellington and his orchestra) -- East St. Louis toodle-oo (Duke Ellington and his Washingtonians)Black beauty (Duke Ellington) -- Mood indigo (The jungle band) -- There ain't no sweet man (worth the salt of my tears) (Paul Whiteman and his orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke) -- Singin' the blues ; Riverboat shuffle (Frankie Trumbauer and his orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke) -- Hotter than 'ell (Fletcher Henderson and his orchestra) -- I got rhythm (Ethel Waters) -- It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) ; Echoes of Harlem (Duke Ellington and his orchestra) -- Moten swing (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra) -- St. Louis blues ; Ain't misbehavin' (Louis Armstrong and his orchestra) -- For dancers only (Jimmie Lunceford and his orchestra) -- King Porter stomp (Benny Goodman and his orchestra) -- Rose room (The Benny Goodman Sextet) -- Sing, sing, sing (with a swing) (Benny Goodman and his orchestra)Jumpin' at the woodside (Count Basie and his orchestra) -- Sent for you yesterday and here you come today (Count Basie and his orchestra) -- Lester leaps in (Count Basie's Kansas City Seven) -- Oh, lady, be good! (Jones-Smith Incorporated) -- Without your love (Billie Holiday and her orchestra) -- Strange fruit (Billie Holiday) -- God bless the child (Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood and his orchestra) -- Three little words (Art Tatum) -- Rebecca (Pete Johnson and "Big" Joe Turner) -- Harlem congo (Chick Webb and his orchestra) -- A-tisket a-tasket (Chick Webb and his orchestra featuring Ella Fitzgerald) -- Shine (Django Reinhardt & Le Quartet du hot club de France) -- Dear old Southland (Noble Sissle and his orchestra)Body and soul (Coleman Hawkins) -- Cotton tail ; Take the "A" train (Duke Ellington and his orchestra) -- Begin the beguine (Artie Shaw and his orchestra) -- In the mood (Glenn Miller and his orchestra) -- Well, git it! (Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra) -- Solitude (Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood and his orchestra) -- Drum boogie (Gene Krupa and his orchestra) -- Salt peanuts (Dizzy Gillespie and his all star quintet) -- Groovin' high (Dizzy Gillespie Sextet) -- Ko-ko (Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers) -- Scrapple from the apple ; Embraceable you (Charlie Parker Quintet) -- Get happy (Bud Powell Trio) -- Epistrophy ; Straight no chaser (Thelonious Monk) -- Manteca (Dizzy Gillespie and his orchestra) -- Moon dreams (Miles Davis Nonet) -- Just friends (Charlie Parker) -- Rockin' chair (Louis Armstrong)They can't take that away from me (Sarah Vaughan and her Trio) -- Walkin' shoes (Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan) -- Fine and mellow (Billie Holiday) -- Doodlin' (Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers) -- I get a kick out of you (Clifford Brown and Max Roach) -- St. Thomas (Sonny Rollins) -- Django (The Modern Jazz Quartet) -- Take five (The Dave Brubeck Quartet) -- So what (Miles Davies Sextet) -- Giant steps (John Coltrane Quartet) -- Rick kick shaw (Cecil Taylor Trio) -- Chronology (Ornette Coleman) -- Original Faubus fables (Charles Mingus) -- Acknowledgment (from a love supreme) (John Coltrane Quartet) -- Hello, Dolly! (Louis Armstrong) -- Desafinado (Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd) -- In a sentimental mood (John Coltrane and Duke Ellington) -- Tourist point of view (Duke Ellington and his orchestra)E.S.P. (The Miles Davis Quintet) -- Spanish key (single version) (Miles Davis) -- Birdland (Weather Report) -- Mister magic (Grover Washington, Jr.) -- Rockit (Herbie Hancock) -- Un ange en danger (Ron Carter and M.C. Solaar) -- Tanya (Dexter Gordon) -- Soon all will know (Wynton Marsalis) -- Death letter (Cassandra Wilson) -- Take the "A" train (The Lincoln Center Jazz orchestra)

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