The Best of Ken Burns Jazz
The Best of Ken Burns Jazz
Label:  Columbia 
Date:  2001
Length:  1:15:29
Genre:  Jazz
  Category:  blues
  Price:  0.00
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra: Star Dust    3:35
      2.  
      		 Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers: Dead Man Blues    3:14
      3.  
      		 Noble Sissle and His Orchestra: Dear Old Southland    2:37
      4.  
      		 Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra: Singin' the Blues    3:02
      5.  
      		 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra: St. Louis Blues    2:58
      6.  
      		 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Mooche    3:15
      7.  
      		 Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra: Hotter Than 'Ell    2:57
      8.  
      		 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra: King Porter Stomp    3:11
      9.  
      		 Artie Shaw and His Orchestra: Begin the Beguine    3:15
      10.  
      		 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Cotton Tail    3:12
      11.  
      		 Count Basie and His Orchestra: Jumpin' At the Woodside    3:10
      12.  
      		 Billie Holiday: Solitude    3:14
      13.  
      		 Dizzy Gillespie Sextet: Groovin' High    2:41
      14.  
      		 Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser    2:57
      15.  
      		 Sarah Vaughan and Her Trio: They Can't Take That Away from Me    2:41
      16.  
      		 Dave Brubeck Quartet: Take Five (45-rpm version)    2:55
      17.  
      		 Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers: Doodlin'    6:45
      18.  
      		 John Coltrane Quartet: Giant Steps    4:45
      19.  
      		 Miles Davis Sextet: So What    9:23
      20.  
      		 Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra: Take the "A" Train    5:34
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      Ken Burns, America's premier documentary filmmaker, scores another hit with his landmark 10-part, 19-hour PBS documentary, Jazz. This sampler is a smaller version of the accompanying five-CD box set, with 22 selections spanning the music's many styles: from Benny Goodman's 1938 classic rendition of "King Porter Stomp" to John Coltrane's immortal "Giant Steps." Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan form a sweeping spectrum of jazz singing with their varying styles. Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker's "Groovin' High," Thelonious Monk's riff blues "'Straight, No Chaser," and Miles Davis's modal masterpiece "So What" are among the music's "greatest hits" compiled here. Louis Armstrong's down-home treatment of Hoagy Carmichael's "Star Dust" and Duke Ellington's rousing "Cotton Tail" show why they are the alpha and the omega of this music. Although the documentary and the sampler omit the avant-garde and Latin jazz, this is, overall, good one-stop shopping for those just getting in the groove. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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      LABEL = Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
      ID = CK61439
      UPC = none
      COPYRIGHT = 2000