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Annotation

A 168-CD box, divided into 42 sets à 4 CDs in Sitofy cases. Each set has its own catalog #, ranging from 22757-382 to 22798-382, with /A-D added for CDs 1-4, respectively. Each CD is called "Menu" here and is dedicated to one musician or band, who mostly appears in different collaborations.

Includes two 180-page books with artist biographies.

Set 01-09: "Classic Jazz - Ragtime - Dixieland"
Set 10-16: "Blues"
Set 17: "Boogie Woogie"
Set 18-32: "Swing to Bebop - Modern Jazz"
Set 33-37: "Big Band"
Set 38-42: "Vocalists"

Annotation last modified on 2014-08-22 21:23 UTC.

Tracklist

CD 1: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Scott Joplin
CD 2: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Original Dixieland Jazz Band
CD 3: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – New Orleans Rhythm Kings
CD 4: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – King Oliver
CD 5: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Jelly Roll Morton
CD 6: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Duke Ellington
CD 7: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Bix Beiderbecke
CD 8: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Buster Bailey
CD 9: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Johnny Dodds
CD 10: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Louis Armstrong
CD 11: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Luis Russell
CD 12: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Red Nichols
CD 13: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – McKinney’s Cotton Pickers
CD 14: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Jack Teagarden
CD 15: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – J.C. Higginbotham
CD 16: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Benny Carter
CD 17: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Clarence Williams
CD 18: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Fletcher Henderson
CD 19: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Jabbo Smith’s Rhythm Aces
CD 20: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – the Rhythmakers
CD 21: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Sidney Bechet
CD 22: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Washboard Rhythm Kings
CD 23: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Mezz Mezzrow
CD 24: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Pee Wee Russell
CD 25: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Muggsy Spanier
CD 26: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Bud Freeman
CD 27: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Eddie Condon Dixieland All‐Stars
CD 28: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – George Wettling
CD 29: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Lu Watters
CD 30: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Bobby Hackett
CD 31: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Edmond Hall
CD 32: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Barney Bigard
CD 33: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Kid Ory
CD 34: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Wilbur de Paris
CD 35: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – George Lewis Ragtime Jazzband of New Orleans
CD 36: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Louis Armstrong [Louis Armstrong and His All‐Stars]
CD 37: Blues – Bessie Smith
CD 38: Blues – Ma Rainey
CD 39: Blues – Mississippi John Hurt
CD 40: Blues – Tampa Red
CD 41: Blues – T‐Bone Walker
CD 42: Blues – Josh White
CD 43: Blues – Blind Willie McTell
CD 44: Blues – Big Bill Broonzy
CD 45: Blues – Leadbelly
CD 46: Blues – Big Joe Williams
CD 47: Blues – Robert Johnson
CD 48: Blues – Kokomo Arnold
CD 49: Blues – John Lee Williamson [Sonny Boy Williamson]
CD 50: Blues – Sonny Terry
CD 51: Blues – Sleepy John Estes
CD 52: Blues – Brownie McGhee
CD 53: Blues – Memphis Slim
CD 54: Blues – Muddy Waters
CD 55: Blues – Big Boy Crudup [Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup]
CD 56: Blues – Big Joe Turner
CD 57: Blues – Roosevelt Sykes
CD 58: Blues – Lightnin’ Hopkins
CD 59: Blues – John Lee Hooker
CD 60: Blues – Johnny Otis
CD 61: Blues – B.B. King
CD 62: Blues – Jimmy Witherspoon
CD 63: Blues – Howlin’ Wolf
CD 64: Blues – Ray Charles
CD 65: Boogie Woogie – Albert Ammons
CD 66: Boogie Woogie – Meade “Lux” Lewis
CD 67: Boogie Woogie – Pete Johnson
CD 68: Boogie Woogie – the Big Band Boogie Woogie
CD 69: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang
CD 70: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Fats Waller
CD 71: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Coleman Hawkins
CD 72: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Art Tatum
CD 73: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Ben Webster
CD 74: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Django Reinhardt [Quintette Du Hot club de France]
CD 75: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Benny Goodman
CD 76: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Roy Eldridge
CD 77: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Earl “Fatha” Hines
CD 78: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lester Young
CD 79: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Teddy Wilson
CD 80: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Benny Carter
CD 81: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lionel Hampton
CD 82: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charlie Shavers [John Kirby and His Onyx club Boys]
CD 83: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charlie Christian
CD 84: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Dexter Gordon
CD 85: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Erroll Garner
CD 86: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Slam Stewart
CD 87: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Wardell Gray
CD 88: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lucky Thompson
CD 89: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Don Byas
CD 90: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Illinois Jacquet
CD 91: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charlie Parker
CD 92: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Dizzy Gillespie
CD 93: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis
CD 94: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lennie Tristano
CD 95: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Thelonious Monk
CD 96: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Fats Navarro
CD 97: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – George Shearing
CD 98: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Gene Ammons
CD 99: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Sonny Stitt
CD 100: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Bud Powell
CD 101: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lee Konitz
CD 102: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Miles Davis
CD 103: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Zoot Sims
CD 104: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Herbie Mann
CD 105: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – James Moody
CD 106: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Stan Getz
CD 107: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Dave Brubeck
CD 108: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – the Modern Jazz Quartet
CD 109: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Jay Jay Johnson [J. J. Johnson]
CD 110: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Gerry Mulligan
CD 111: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Sonny Rollins
CD 112: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Paul Quinichette
CD 113: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Art Pepper
CD 114: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Shorty Rogers
CD 115: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Horace Silver
CD 116: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Chet Baker
CD 117: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Bud Shank
CD 118: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Clifford Brown
CD 119: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charlie Parker
CD 120: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Barney Kessel
CD 121: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lou Donaldson
CD 122: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Art Farmer
CD 123: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Tal Farlow
CD 124: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charles Mingus
CD 125: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Dizzy Gillespie
CD 126: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Phil Woods
CD 127: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Jackie McLean & Donald Byrd
CD 128: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – the Jazz Messengers [Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers]
CD 129: Big Bands – Bennie Moten
CD 130: Big Bands – Jimmie Lunceford
CD 131: Big Bands – Fletcher Henderson
CD 132: Big Bands – Chick Webb
CD 133: Big Bands – Benny Goodman
CD 134: Big Bands – Tommy Dorsey
CD 135: Big Bands – Harry James
CD 136: Big Bands – Earl “Fatha” Hines [Earl Hines and His Orchestra]
CD 137: Big Bands – Count Basie
CD 138: Big Bands – Artie Shaw
CD 139: Big Bands – Glenn Miller
CD 140: Big Bands – Bunny Berigan
CD 141: Big Bands – Gene Krupa
CD 142: Big Bands – Charlie Barnet
CD 143: Big Bands – Erskine Hawkins
CD 144: Big Bands – Lionel Hampton
CD 145: Big Bands – Duke Ellington
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Chelsea Boogie
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra2:56
2What Am I Here For
recording of:
What Am I Here For
composer:
Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader)
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra3:27
3Main Stem
recording of:
Main Stem
composer:
Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader)
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra2:52
4Johnny Come Lately
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra2:41
5The ‘C’ Jam Blues
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra2:41
6Perdido
recording of:
Perdido (original instrumental version)
composer:
Juan Tizol
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra3:11
7Moon Mist
recording of:
Moon Mist
composer:
Mercer Ellington
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra3:01
8I’m Beginning to See the Light
recording of:
I’m Beginning to See the Light
lyricist:
Don George (US songwriter/composer, 1909–1987) (in 1944)
composer:
Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) (in 1944), Johnny Hodges (in 1944) and Harry James (US big band leader, trumpeter & actor) (in 1944)
publisher:
Anne-Rachel Music Corp.
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra3:15
9Carnegie BluesDuke Ellington & His Orchestra2:49
10Blue Cellophone
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra2:56
11Mood to Be Wooed
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra2:59
12The Mooche
recording of:
The Mooche
composer:
Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) and Irving Mills
part of:
The Addams Family (1991)
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra3:05
13Black and Tan Fantasy
recording of:
Black and Tan Fantasy
composer:
Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) and Bubber Miley
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra2:54
14It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
recording of:
It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
lyricist:
Irving Mills (in 1931)
composer:
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) (in 1931-08)
publisher:
Duke Ellington Music and EMI Mills Music (ASCAP-affiliated)
part of:
The Real Book (compilation of jazz standards, Volume I)
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra3:03
15In a Sentimental Mood
recording of:
In a Sentimental Mood
lyricist:
Manny Kurtz and Irving Mills
composer:
Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) (in 1935)
publisher:
American Academy of Music, Inc., Famous Music Corporation (renamed since 2007-05 as Sony/ATV Harmony/Melody), J. R. Lafleur & Son Ltd., Lafleur Music Ltd., Mills Music and Sony/ATV Harmony
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra3:05
16Things Ain’t What They Used to Be (Time’s A‐Wastin’)
recording of:
Things Ain’t What They Used to Be
lyricist:
Ted Persons
composer:
Mercer Ellington (in 1942)
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra3:10
17Magenta Haze
recording of:
Magenta Haze
composer:
Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader)
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra3:02
18Blue SkiesDuke Ellington & His Orchestra2:37
19Sultry Sunset
recording of:
Sultry Sunset
composer:
Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader)
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra3:11
20Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
recording of:
Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
lyricist:
Bob Russell (US songwriter/lyricist Sidney Keith “Bob” Russell) (in 1943)
composer:
Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) (in 1943)
publisher:
Music Sales Corporation (American copyright holder in both popular and classical music) and Sony/ATV Harmony
version of:
Concerto for Cootie
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra3:04
21Park at 106th
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra2:26
CD 146: Big Bands – Woody Herman
CD 147: Big Bands – Stan Kenton
CD 148: Big Bands – Shorty Rogers
CD 149: Vocalists – the Boswell Sisters
CD 150: Vocalists – the Mills Brothers
CD 151: Vocalists – Billie Holiday
CD 152: Vocalists – Mildred Bailey
CD 153: Vocalists – Ivie Anderson
CD 154: Vocalists – Ella Fitzgerald
CD 155: Vocalists – the Andrews Sisters
CD 156: Vocalists – Lena Horne
CD 157: Vocalists – Anita O’Day
CD 158: Vocalists – Billy Eckstine
CD 159: Vocalists – Peggy Lee
CD 160: Vocalists – Nat King Cole
CD 161: Vocalists – June Christy
CD 162: Vocalists – Frank Sinatra
CD 163: Vocalists – Dinah Washington
CD 164: Vocalists – Mel Tormé
CD 165: Vocalists – Sarah Vaughan
CD 166: Vocalists – Ella Fitzgerald
CD 167: Vocalists – Joe Williams
CD 168: Vocalists – Billie Holiday