100 all time greatest jazz recordings, 1923-1947.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Britt, Stan (Compiler)
Format: CD Audio
Language:English
Published: [England?] : Pulse : Castle Communications, [1998]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Disc 1: Potato head blues / Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
  • Harlem air shaft / Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
  • Ko-Ko / Charlie Pasrker's Reboppers
  • Way down yonder in New Orleans / Lester Young & the Kansas City Six
  • I must have that man! / Billie Holiday
  • Farewell blues / Roy Eldridge & the Delta Four
  • Original Jelly Roll blues / Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers
  • My Monday date / Earl Hines (solo piano)
  • You're driving me crazy / Django Reinhardt & the Quintet of the Hot Club of Paris
  • Dippermouth blues / King Oliver & His Creole Jazz Band
  • Jeep's blues / Johnny Hodges & His Orchestra
  • Honeysucke rose / Fats Waller (solo piano)
  • Nobody knows you when you're down and out / Bessie Smith
  • Body & soul / Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra
  • I'll remember April / Bud Powell Trio
  • When lights are low / Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra
  • Things to come / Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
  • Seven come eleven / Benny Goodman Sextet
  • Relaxin' at the Touro / Mugsy Spanier & His Ragtimers
  • Beale Street blues / Joe Venuti-Eddie Lang & Their All-Star Orchestra
  • Clap hands here comes Charlie! / Count Basie & His Orchestra
  • Careless love / Mezz Mezzrow & His Orchestra
  • Singin' the blues / Frankie Trambauer & His Orchestra
  • Shaw 'nuff / Dizzy Gillespie & His All Star Quintet
  • Tiger rag / Art Tatum
  • I can't get started / Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra.
  • Disc 2: On the sunny side of the street / Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
  • Yesterdays / Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  • You took advantage of me / Lee Wiley (with Joe Bushkin's Orchestra)
  • Please don't talk about me when I'm gone / Mildren Bailey with the Delta Rhythm Boys
  • Goin' to Chicago blues / Jimmy Rushing (witih Count Basie & His Orchestra)
  • Masschusetts / Anita O'Day (with Gene Knupa & His Orchestra)
  • I got rhythm / Leo Watson (with the Spirits of Rhythm)
  • I'm must a lucky so and so / Ella Fitzgerald
  • Tell me pretty baby / Billy Eckstine & His Orchestra
  • That old feeling / Peggy Lee (with the Capitol Jazzmen)
  • Lover man / Sarah Vaughan (with Dizzy Gillespie & His All Star Quintet)
  • I don't mind / Ivie Anderson (with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra)
  • Low down dirty shame blues / Big Joe Turner (with Joe Sullivan & His Cafe Society Orchestra)
  • All that meat and potatoes / Fats Waller & His Rhythm
  • Please be kind / Maxine Sullivan (with Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra)
  • Popity pop / Slim Gallard & His Orchestra
  • Be-baba-leba / Helen Humes (with the Bill Doggett Octet)
  • Winin' boy blues / Jelly Roll Morton
  • Creole love call / Adelaide Hall (with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra)
  • That's all! / Sister Rosetta Tharpe (with Lucky Milinder & His Orchestra)
  • Good morning, heartache / Bille Holiday (with orchestra directed by Bill Stegmeyer)
  • Stormy weather / Ethel Waters (with orchestral accompaniment)
  • Gee baby, ain't I good to you? / Hot Lips Page (with Chu Berry & His "Little Jazz" Ensemble)
  • Mellow mama blues / Dinah Washington (with Lucky Thompson's All Stars)
  • Gotta gimme what'cha got / Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends.
  • Disc 3: It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) / Duke Ellington
  • Pound cake / Count Basie
  • Our delight / Dizzy Gillespie
  • Father steps in / Earl Hines & His Grand Terrace Orchestra
  • Shanghai shuffle / Fletcher Henderson
  • Your father's moustache / Woody Herman
  • Organ grinder's swing / Jimmie Lunceford
  • When lights are low / Benny Carter
  • South Rampart Street parade / Bob Crosby-- Twinklin' / Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clouds of Joy
  • Stardust / Artie Shaw
  • Clarinet a la king / Benny Goodman
  • Skyliner / Charles Barnet
  • Music makers / Harry James
  • Liza (All the clouds'll roll away) / Chick Webb
  • Sepian bounce / Jay McShann
  • Leave us leap / Gene Krupa
  • Intermission riff/ Stan Kenton
  • Co-pilot / George Auld
  • Woody'n'you / Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra
  • Arab dance / Claude Thornhill
  • Come rain or come shine / Tommy Dorsey
  • March of the Boyds / Boyd Raeburn
  • Flying home / Lionel Hampton
  • Do bop sh-bam / Billy Eckstine.
  • Disc 4. Slam slam blues / Red Norvo & His Selected Sextet
  • Ain't misbehavin' / Teddy Wilson Quartet
  • Forty-six west, fifty-two / Chu Berry & His "Little Jazz" Ensemble
  • Undecided / John Kirby Sextet
  • You've got to be modernistic / Jimmy Johnson & His Orchestra
  • Out of nowhere / Coleman Hawkins & His "Little Jazz" Ensemble
  • For no reason at all in "C" / Tram, Bix & Eddie
  • Stockyard strut / Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals
  • Perdido Street blues / New Orleans' Wanderers
  • Apex blues / Jimmie Noone & His Orchestra
  • Don't be that way / Lioniel Hampton & His Orchestra
  • Midnight call blues / Eddie Lang/Lonnie Johnson
  • Onyx Club spree / Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys
  • Caldonia / Louis Jorden & His Tympany Five
  • Overture to dawn / Erroll Gerner
  • Profoundly blue / Edmond Hall Celeste Quartet
  • Weatherbird rag / Louis Armstrong Orchestra
  • Long tall Dexter / Dexter Gordon Quintet
  • 'Round midnight / Thelonius Monk Quintet
  • A night in Tunisia / Charle Parker Septet
  • (I don't stand a ghost of a chance with you) / Lennie Tristano
  • The man I love / Wardell Gray Quartet
  • Webb City (Parts 1 & 2) / Fats Navarro-Gil Fuller's Modernists
  • Sweet Lorraine / Metronome All Stars.