Artists
Album Info
Release Date: 2011-14© 2000 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
This Compilation ℗ 2000 Sony Music Entertainment Inc./The Verve Music Group, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Public Broadcasting Service and General Motors Corporation logos are also printed on the Box Set Back Cover, to represent their sponsorship of this series.
Double-sized 6-panel Digipak with 5 transparent trays and a 46 page booklet.
Ken Burns takes a retrospective look at jazz, from its early beginnings, up until the present.
Each of the individual discs have a separate catalog number.
Compilation notes:
Track 1-1: Taken from the box set Louis Armstrong - Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: 1923-1934, originally recorded 1931, re-released ℗1994 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Track 1-2: Taken from the compilation Various - Roots Of The Blues, originally recorded 1959, re-released ℗1977 New World Records.
Track 1-3: Taken from the compilation Lt. Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Band - The Complete Recordings - Pathé, originally recorded 1919, re-released ℗1996 Memphis Archives.
Track 1-4: Taken from the compilation Original Dixieland Jazz Band - The 75th Anniversary, originally recorded 1917, re-released ℗1992 Bluebird (3) Records.
Track 1-5: Taken from the album James Price Johnson - Carolina Shout, originally recorded 1925, re-released ℗1988 Biograph Records.
Track 1-6: Taken from the box set Louis Armstrong - Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: 1923-1934, originally recorded 1923, re-released ℗1994 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Track 1-7: Taken from the compilation Bessie Smith - The Complete Recordings Vol. 3, originally recorded 1927, re-released ℗1992 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Tracks 1-8 and 1-9: Taken from the compilation Jelly Roll Morton - The Pearls, originally recorded 1926, re-released ℗1988 RCA/Bluebird (3) Records.
Track 1-10: Taken from the single Clarence Williams' Blue Five - Kansas City Man Blues / Wild Cat Blues, originally recorded 1923, released ℗1923 Okeh Records.
Tracks 1-11 and 1-12: Taken from the box set Louis Armstrong - Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: 1923-1934, originally recorded 1925, re-released ℗1994 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Track 1-13: Taken from the box set Louis Armstrong - The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings, originally recorded 1926, re-released ℗2000 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Track 1-14: Taken from the box set Louis Armstrong - The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings, originally recorded 1927, re-released ℗2000 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Track 1-15: Taken from the box set Louis Armstrong - The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings, originally recorded 1928, re-released ℗2000 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Tracks 1-16 and 1-18: Taken from the compilation Duke Ellington - The Duke - The Columbia Years 1927-1962, originally recorded 1928, re-released ℗1999 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Track 1-17: Taken from the compilation Duke Ellington - Early Ellington - The Complete Brunswick And Vocalion Recordings Of Duke Ellington, 1926-1931, originally recorded 1926, re-released ℗1994 Decca Jazz/GRP Records.
Track 1-19: Taken from the compilation Duke Ellington - Early Ellington - The Complete Brunswick And Vocalion Recordings Of Duke Ellington, 1926-1931, originally recorded 1930, re-released ℗1994 Decca Jazz/GRP Records.
Track 1-20: Originally recorded 1928, re-released RCA/Bluebird (3) Records.
Tracks 1-21 and 1-22: Taken from the compilation Bix Beiderbecke - Volume 1 - Singin' The Blues, originally recorded 1927, re-released ℗1990 Columbia Records.
Track 1-23: Taken from the compilation Fletcher Henderson - Tidal Wave (The Original Decca Recordings) , originally recorded 1934, re-released ℗1994 Decca Jazz/GRP Records.
Track 1-24: Taken from the single Ethel Waters - I Got Rhythm / Three Little Words, originally recorded 1930, released ℗1930 Columbia Records.
Track 2-1: Taken from the compilation Duke Ellington - The Duke - The Columbia Years 1927-1962, originally recorded 1932, re-released ℗1999 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Track 2-2: Taken from the single Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Clarinet Lament / Echoes Of Harlem, originally recorded 1936, released ℗1936 Brunswick and Columbia Records.
Track 2-3: Taken from the single Henry "Red" Allen And His Orchestra, Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Patrol Wagon Blues / Moten's Swing, originally recorded 1932, released ℗1933 His Master's Voice (UK).
Track 2-4: Taken from the compilation Louis Armstrong - Louis Armstrong Vol. 6: St. Louis Blues, originally recorded 1929, re-released ℗1991 Columbia Records.
Track 2-5: Taken from the box set Louis Armstrong - Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: 1923-1934, originally recorded 1929, re-released ℗1994 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Track 2-6: Taken from the compilation Jimmie Lunceford And His Orchestra - For Dancers Only, originally recorded 1937, re-released ℗1994 Decca Jazz/GRP Records.
Track 2-7: Taken from the compilation Benny Goodman And His Orchestra - Sing, Sing, Sing, originally recorded 1935, re-released ℗1987 RCA/Bluebird (3) Records.
Track 2-8: Taken from the compilation Benny Goodman - The Essence Of Benny Goodman, originally recorded 1939, re-released ℗1991 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Track 2-9: Taken from the compilation Benny Goodman And His Orchestra - Sing, Sing, Sing, originally recorded 1937, re-released ℗1987 RCA/Bluebird (3) Records.
Tracks 2-10 and 2-11: Taken from the compilation Count Basie - The Complete Decca Recordings, originally recorded 1938, re-released ℗1992 Decca Jazz/GRP Records.
Track 2-12: Taken from the compilation Count Basie - The Essential Count Basie Volume 2, originally recorded 1939, re-released ℗1987 Columbia Records.
Track 2-13: Taken from the compilation Count Basie - The Essential Count Basie, Volume 1, originally recorded 1936, re-released ℗1987 Columbia Records.
Track 2-14: Taken from the compilation Billie Holiday - The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 5, 1937-1938, originally recorded 1937, re-released ℗1989 Columbia Records.
Track 2-15: Taken from the compilation Billie Holiday - The Commodore Master Takes, originally recorded 1939, re-released ℗2000 Commodore Records.
Track 2-16: Taken from the box set Billie Holiday - The Legacy (1933-1958), originally recorded 1941, re-released ℗1991 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Track 2-17: Taken from the compilation Art Tatum - The Standard Transcriptions (Piano Solos, 1935 - c. 1945), originally recorded 1944, re-released ℗1999 Storyville Records (Denmark).
Track 2-18: Taken from the compilation Big Joe Turner - Every Day In The Week, originally recorded 1944, re-released ℗1993 Decca Jazz/GRP Records.
Track 2-19: Taken from the compilation Chick Webb - Spinnin' The Webb - The Original Decca Recordings, originally recorded 1937, re-released ℗1994 Decca Jazz/GRP Records.
Track 2-20: Taken from the compilation Ella Fitzgerald, Chick Webb - Swingsation, originally recorded 1938, re-released ℗1998 GRP Records.
Track 2-21: Taken from the compilation Django Reinhardt - In Memoriam 1908-1954, originally recorded 1936, re-released ℗1989 RCA Records (Japan).
Track 2-22: Originally recorded 1937.
Track 3-1: Taken from the compilation Coleman Hawkins - Body And Soul, originally recorded 1939, re-released ℗1986 RCA/Bluebird (3) Records.
Track 3-2: Taken from the compilation Duke Ellington - The Blanton-Webster Band, originally recorded 1940, re-released ℗1986 RCA/Bluebird (3) Records.
Track 3-3: Taken from the compilation Duke Ellington - The Blanton-Webster Band, originally recorded 1941, re-released ℗1986 RCA/Bluebird (3) Records.
Track 3-4: Taken from the compilation Artie Shaw And His Orchestra - Begin The Beguine, originally recorded 1938, re-released ℗1987 RCA/Bluebird (3) Records.
Track 3-5: Taken from the compilation Glenn Miller - Chattanooga Choo Choo - The #1 Hits, originally recorded 1939, re-released ℗1991 RCA/Bluebird (3) Records.
Track 3-6: Taken from the compilation Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra - Yes, Indeed!, originally recorded 1942, re-released ℗1990 RCA/Bluebird (3) Records.
Track 3-7: Taken from the compilation Billie Holiday - Billie Holiday's Greatest Hits, originally recorded 1941, re-released ℗1998 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Track 3-8: Taken from the compilation Gene Krupa And His Orchestra - Drum Boogie, originally recorded 1941, re-released ℗1993 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Tracks 3-9 and 3-10: Taken from the compilation Dizzy Gillespie Sextet, Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra - Shaw 'Nuff, originally recorded 1945, re-released ℗1988 Musicraft Records.
Tracks 3-11 to 3-13: Taken from the compilation Charlie Parker - The Complete Savoy And Dial Studio Recordings 1944-1948, originally recorded 1945, re-released ℗2000 Savoy Jazz/Atlantic Records.
Track 3-14: Taken from the compilation Bud Powell - Jazz Giant, originally recorded 1950, re-released ℗1988 Verve Records.
Track 3-15: Taken from the compilation Thelonious Monk - Genius Of Modern Music Volume 2, originally recorded 1945, re-released ℗1989 Blue Note Records.
Track 3-16: Taken from the compilation Thelonious Monk - Genius Of Modern Music Volume 2, originally recorded 1951, re-released ℗1989 Blue Note Records.
Track 3-17: Taken from the compilation Dizzy Gillespie - Greatest Hits, originally recorded 1947, re-released ℗1996 RCA Records.
Track 3-18: Taken from the compilation Miles Davis - Birth Of The Cool, originally recorded 1950, re-released ℗1998 Capitol Jazz Records.
Track 3-19: Taken from the compilation Charlie Parker With Strings - Charlie Parker With Strings, originally recorded 1949, re-released ℗1995 Verve Records.
Track 3-20: Taken from the compilation Louis Armstrong - The Complete RCA Victor Recordings, originally recorded 1947, re-released ℗1997 BMG Classics Records.
Track 3-21: Taken from the album Sarah Vaughan And Her Trio - Swingin' Easy, originally recorded 1954, re-released ℗1992 EmArcy Records.
Track 3-22: Taken from the album Gerry Mulligan Quartet - The Original Quartet With Chet Baker, originally recorded 1952, re-released ℗1998 Pacific Jazz Records.
Track 3-23: Taken from the album Various - The Sound Of Jazz, originally recorded 1957, released ℗1989 Columbia Records.
Track 4-1: Taken from the compilation Horace Silver, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Horace Silver And The Jazz Messengers, originally recorded 1954, re-released ℗1987 Blue Note Records.
Track 4-2: Taken from the album Clifford Brown And Max Roach - Brown And Roach Incorporated, originally recorded 1954, re-released ℗1996 EmArcy Records.
Track 4-3: Taken from the album Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus, originally recorded 1956, re-released ℗1987 Original Jazz Classics/Prestige Records.
Track 4-4: Taken from the album The Modern Jazz Quartet - Django, originally recorded 1954, re-released ℗1987 Original Jazz Classics/Prestige Records.
Track 4-5: Taken from the album The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out, originally recorded 1959, re-released ℗1997 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Track 4-6: Taken from the album Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue, originally recorded 1959, re-released ℗1997 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Track 4-7: Taken from the album John Coltrane - Giant Steps, originally recorded 1959, re-released ℗1996 Atlantic/Rhino Records (2).
Track 4-8: Taken from the album The Cecil Taylor Quartet - Jazz Advance, originally recorded 1955, re-released ℗1991 Blue Note Records.
Track 4-9: Taken from the album Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come, originally recorded 1959, re-released ℗1990 Atlantic/Rhino Records (2).
Track 4-10: Taken from the album Charles Mingus - Presents Charles Mingus, originally recorded 1960, re-released ℗1991 Candid Records.
Track 4-11: Taken from the album John Coltrane - A Love Supreme, originally recorded 1964, re-released ℗1986 Impulse! Records.
Track 5-1: Taken from the album Louis Armstrong - Hello, Dolly!, originally recorded 1963, re-released ℗1995 MCA Records/Kapp Records.
Track 5-2: Taken from the album Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba, originally recorded 1962, re-released ℗1997 Verve Records.
Track 5-3: Taken from the album Duke Ellington, John Coltrane - Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, originally recorded 1962, re-released ℗1995 Impulse! Records.
Track 5-4: Taken from the album Duke Ellington - The Far East Suite, originally recorded 1966, re-released ℗1988 RCA/Bluebird (3) Records.
Track 5-5: Taken from the compilation Miles Davis - Miles Davis Quintet 1965-'68, originally recorded 1965, re-released ℗1998 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Track 5-6: Taken from the album Miles Davis - The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions, originally recorded 1969, re-released ℗1998 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Track 5-7: Taken from the album Weather Report - Heavy Weather, originally recorded 1977, re-released ℗1992 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Track 5-8: Taken from the album Grover Washington, Jr. - Mister Magic, originally recorded 1974, re-released ℗1995 Kudu/Motown Records.
Track 5-9: Taken from the album Herbie Hancock - Future Shock, originally recorded 1983, re-released ℗1999 Columbia/Legacy Records.
Track 5-10: Taken from the album Various - Stolen Moments (Red Hot + Cool), originally recorded 1994, released ℗1994 GRP Records.
Track 5-11: Taken from the album Dexter Gordon Quartet - Manhattan Symphonie, originally recorded 1978, released ℗1978 Columbia Records.
Track 5-12: Taken from the album Wynton Marsalis - Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. 1, originally recorded 1987, released ℗1987 Columbia Records.
Track 5-13: Taken from the album Cassandra Wilson - New Moon Daughter, originally recorded 1995, released ℗1995 Blue Note Records.
Track 5-14: Taken from the album Jazz At Lincoln Center - They Came To Swing, originally recorded 1992, released ℗1994 Columbia Records.