Track Listing DISC 1: NEW ORLEANS & CHICAGO STYLES: 1. Dixie Jass Band One-Step - Tony Sharbaro/Original Dixieland Jazz Band 2. Canal Street Blues - Baby Dodds/King Oliver & His Creole Jazz Band 3. New Orleans Wiggle - Louis Cotrell/Piron's New Orleans Orchestra 4. Black Bottom Stomp - Andrew Hilaire/Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers 5. Wolverine Blues - Baby Dodds/Jelly Roll Morton 6. At the Jazz Band Ball - Chauncey Morehouse/Bix Beiderbecke 7. Memphis Blues - Ben Pollack & His Orchestra 8. China Boy - Gene Krupa/McKenzie & Condon's Chicagoans 9. Clarinetitis - Bob Conselman/Benny Goodman 10. Boneyard Shuffle - Vic Berton/Red Nichols & His Five Pennies 11. She's Crying For Me - Sid Catlett/Wynn's Creole Jazz Band 12. Smilin' the Blues Away - Zutty Singleton/Jelly Roll Morton Trio 13. Panama - Paul Barbarin/Luis Russell & His Orchestra 14. 'Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Tubby Hall/Jimmie Noone & His New Orleans Band 15. Weary Blues - Manzie Johnson/Tommy Ladnier & His Orchestra 16. Nobody's Sweetheart - Dave Tough/Eddie Condon & His Chicagoians 17. Dear Old Southland - Sid Catlett/Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Quartet 18. King Porter Stomp - Zutty Singleton & His Orchestra 19. Copenhagen - Morey Feld/Bud Freeman & His Summa C** Laude Orchestra 20. Sheik of Araby, The - George Wettling/Eddie Condon's Chicagoians 21. Muskrat Ramble - Ray Bauduc/The Eddie Miller Orchestra 22. Blame It on the Blues (Quincy Street Stomp) - Danny Alvin/Bechet-Nicholas Blue Five 23. Buddy Bolden Blues - Baby Dodds Trio
DISC 2: SWING IS HERE: 1. Nobody's Sweetheart - Gene Krupa/Benny Goodman Trio 2. Dicky Wells Blues - Bill Beason/Dicky Wells 3. Let's Swing It - Sam Weiss/Louis Prima & His New Orleans Gang 4. Crazy Rhythm - Tommy Benford/Coleman Hawkins & His All-Star Jam Band 5. Down Home Jump - Alvin Burroughs/Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 6. Jim Jam Stomp - Buddy Rich/Joe Marsala's Chicagoans 7. Looney - Alex Mitchell/Al Cooper & His Savoy Sultans 8. Shivers - Nick Fatool/Benny Goodman Sextet 9. Shufflin at the Hollywood - Cozy Cole/Lionel Hampton 10. Hootie's Ignorant Oil - Gus Johnson/Jay McShann & His Orchestra 11. Linger Awhile - Sid Catlett Quartet 12. Front and Center - O'Neill Spencer/John Kirby Sextet 13. I May Be Wrong - J.C. Heard/Pete Brown's All Star Quintet 14. Destination K. C. - Jo Jones/Kansas City Seven 15. Too Marvelous For Words - George Wettling's New Yorkers 16. Seven Come Eleven - Eddie Dell/Red Norvo All Star Sextet 17. Bunch of Rhythm, A - Specs Powell/Horace Henderson & His Orchestra 18. Behind the Eight Bar - Jimmy Crawford/Trummy Young & His Lucky Seven 19. Gotta Gimme What You Got - Sam "Baby" Lovett/Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends 20. I Want to Go Where You Go - Louie Bellson/Benny Goodman Sextet 21. Jonah's Wail - Kansas Fields/Jinah Jones 22. Airiness a la Nat - Jackie Mills/The Keynoters 23. Boogie Woogie Barbecue - Sonny Payne/Tiny Grimes Quintet 24. I Want to Be Happy - Buddy Rich/Lester Young Trio
DISC 3: BIG BAND DRUMMING: 1. Put It There - Cuba Austin/McKinney's Cotton Pickers 2. Down South Camp Meeting - Walter Johnson/Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra 3. Walkin' & Swingin' - Ben Thigpen/Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clouds Of Joy 4. Jivin' the Jeep - Mo Purtill/Red Norvo's Blackhawk Orchestra 5. Sing, Sing, Sing - Gene Krupa/Benny Goodman & His Orchestra 6. Lisa - Chick Webb & His Orchestra 7. Wolverine Blues - Ray Bauduc/Bob Crosby & His Orchestra 8. T'Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It) - Jimmy Crawford/Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra 9. Ratamacue - Cozy Cole/Cab Calloway & His Orchestra 10. Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam) - J.C. Heard/Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra 11. Tickle-Toe - Jo Jones/Count Basie & His Orchestra 12. Dameron Stomp - Jesse Price/Harlan Leonard & His Rockets 13. Pound Ridge - Sid Catlett/Benny Goodman & His Orchestra 14. Up Jumped the Devil - Rudolph Taylor/Earl Hines & His Orchestra 15. Jumpin' Punkins - Sonny Greer/Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra 16. Little John Special - Panama Francis/Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra 17. Good Earth, The - Dave Tough/Woody Herman & His Orchestra 18. Moten Swing - Lou Fromm/Harry James & His Orchestra 19. In the Middle - Shadow Wilson/Georgie Auld & His Orchestra 20. Quiet Riot - Buddy Rich & His Orchestra 21. Our Delight - Kenny Clarke/Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra 22. Oo Bop Sh'bam - Art Blakey/Billy Eckstine & His Orchestra 23. How High the Moon - Shelly Manne/Stan Kenton & His Orchestra 24. Four Brothers - Don Lamond/Woody Herman & His Orchestra
DISC 4: MODERNISM: 1. Rifftide - Denzil Best/Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra 2. Congo Blues - J.C. Heard/Red Norvo & His Selected Sextet 3. Get Happy - Specs Powell/Red Norvo & His Selected Sextet 4. Moose the Mooche - Roy Porter/Charlie Parker Sextet 5. Commercial Eyes - Jackie Mills/Lucky Thompson/Dodo Marmarosa Quartet 6. Lester's Be-Bop Boogie - Chico Hamilton/Lester Young 7. Easy Swing - Harold "Doc" West/Wardell Gray Quartet 8. Relaxing at Camarillo - Don Lamond/Charlie Parker All Stars 9. Chase, The - Chuck Thompson/Dexter Gordon Quintet 10. All God's Children Got Rythym - Tiny Kahn/Red Rodney's Be-Boppers 11. Klact-Oveeseds-Tene - Max Roach/Charlie Parker Quintet 12. Lop-Pow - Charles Simon/Bab's Three Bips & A Bop 13. Dextrose - Art Mardigan/Dexter Gordon & His Boys 14. Wee Dot - Shadow Wilson/Leo Parker's All Stars 15. Jumpin' at the Woodside - Roy Haynes/Lester Young 16. Bird, The - Shelly Manne/Charlie Parker Quintet 17. Last Word, The - Joe Harris/Howard McGhee 18. Dinky - Jack "The Bear" Parker/Leo Parker's Quintette 19. Lady Bird - Kenny Clarke/Tadd Dameron Sextet 20. More Brew - Stan Levey/Brew Moore 21. Pina Colada - Ed Shaughnessy/Charlie Ventura & His Orchestra 22. Oh Henry - Teddy Stewart/James Moody's Modernists 23. Shawn - Sonny Igoe/Buddy Stewart Quintet 24. Bop Alley - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
| Details | | Producer: | Joop Visser (Compilation) | | Distributor: | City Hall | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mono | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Recorded between 1923 and 1948. Includes liner notes by Joop Visser
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