VA - Ken Burns Jazz, The Story of American Music [2000] (5 x CDs) + Ken Burns's 10-part television documentary [2000] MP4

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KEN BURNS JAZZ

VA - Ken Burns Jazz, The Story of American Music [2000] (5 x CDs) + Ken Burns's 10-part television documentary [2000] MP4

If you set out to create a single anthology that charted all the twists and tributaries of that uniquely American river we call jazz, you couldn't do better than this companion set to the PBS series, Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music, 94 tracks on 5 CDs licensed from virtually every important label in the history of the music. Includes The Pearls - Jelly Roll Morton; Charleston - James P. Johnson; West End Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five; The Mooche - Duke Ellington; Singin' the Blues - Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke; Moten Swing - Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra; Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday; Three Little Words - Art Tatum; Body and Soul - Coleman Hawkins; In the Mood - Glenn Miller; Take Five - Dave Brubeck; So What Miles Davis; Giant Steps - John Coltrane; Desafinado - Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd, and many more classics.

This five-CD box set is a soundtrack to support filmmaker Ken Burns's 10-part, 19-hour television documentary. Ken Burns Jazz spans nearly a century of jazz styles, from the martial rhythms of James Reese Europe to the soul-jazz of Grover Washington Jr. It includes time-tested classics like Benny Goodman's 1938 classic, "Sing, Sing, Sing"; John Coltrane's chanting 1965 immortal track, "A Love Supreme"; Billie Holiday's blue-ember ballad, "God Bless the Child"; and Ella Fitzgerald peeling off "A-Tisket A-Tasket." Bebop is represented by Charlie Parker's orchestral bop version of "Just Friends"; Thelonious Monk's nocturnal calling card, "'Round Midnight"; and Dizzy Gillespie's "Salt Peanuts" and "Groovin' High." The jazz-instrumentalist-as-singer comes to life on Coleman Hawkins's "Body and Soul" and Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers' "Doodlin'." Clifford Brown and Max Roach's "I Get a Kick out of You" epitomizes the hard-bop era, while Miles Davis's "So What" stands as the modal masterpiece. The cool school is in session with Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan dishing out "Walkin' Shoes," and the Modern Jazz Quartet's soulful elegy "Django" straddles all the above musical orbits. As for Django Reinhardt, he's featured on "Shine" with the justly famed Le Quartet du Hot Club de France.

Louis Armstrong's "West End Blues" and "Potato Head Blues" and Duke Ellington's rousing rendition of Billy Strayhorn's anthem, "Take the A Train," and his moody "Solitude" show why they are the Olympian masters of this art form--and the most frequently featured artists in the series. Although Ken Burns tries bringing the music up to date with Wynton Marsalis, Cassandra Wilson, and two jazz-hip-hop-influenced tracks--Herbie Hancock's robotic "Rockit" and the French-language "Un Aige en Danger" by MC Solaar and bass legend Ron Carter--there are significant holes here. After Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman, the avant-garde period from the late 1960s to the 1980s is lacking. And aside from the bossa nova hit "Desafinado," Latin jazz is also missing. It's a tough task summarizing jazz in five CDs, and Burns has given us a vibrant and vivid multicolored aural portrait of the music. 

This box set is a "must have" for every collector, because of its wonderful sound. It seems that engineers transferred these classic recordings to disk in a way that gives them more clarity and definition. (Amazon)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Louis Armstrong - Stardust 3:35

02 Mississippi Fred Mcdowell - Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' In My Room) 3:13

03 Lieut. Jim Europe's 369th Infantry ("hell Fighters") Band - Memphis Blues 2:38

04 The Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Livery Stable Blues 3:07

05 James P. Johnson - Charleston 1:49

06 King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Chimes Blues 2:51

07 Bessie Smith - Backwater Blues 3:18

08 Jelly Roll Morton - The Pearls 2:50

09 Jelly Roll Morton - Dead Man Blues 3:15

10 Clarence Williams' Blue Five & Sidney Bechet - Wild Cat Blues 3:01

11 Clarence Williams' Blue Five - Cake Walkin' Babies (From Home) 2:56

12 Fletcher Henderson - Sugar Foot Stomp 2:50

13 Louis Armstrong - Heebie Jeebies 2:53

14 Louis Armstrong - Potato Head Blues 2:56

15 Louis Armstrong - West End Blues 3:19

16 Duke Ellington - The Mooche 3:14

17 Duke Ellington - East St. Louis Toodle-Oo 2:54

18 Duke Ellington - Black Beauty 3:02

19 The Jungle Band - Mood Indigo 3:09

20 Paul Whiteman - There Ain't No Sweet Man (Worth The Salt Of My Tears) 3:30

21 Frankie Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke - Singin' The Blues 3:01

22 Frankie Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke - Riverboat Shuffle 3:09

23 Fletcher Henderson - Hotter Than 'ell 2:56

24 Ethel Waters - I Got Rhythm 3:04

CD2

01 Duke Ellington - It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 3:11

02 Duke Ellington - Echoes Of Harlem 3:02

03 Benny Moten - Moten Swing 3:25

04 Louis Armstrong - St. Louis Blues 3:03

05 Louis Armstrong - Ain't Misbehavin' 3:14

06 Jimmie Lunceford - For Dancers Only 2:40

07 Benny Goodman - King Porter Stomp 3:11

08 Benny Goodman & Charlie Christian - Rose Room 2:50

09 Benny Goodman - Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing) 8:40

10 Count Basie - Jumpin' At The Woodside 3:10

11 Count Basie - Sent For You Yesterday And Here You Come Today 2:59

12 Count Basie & Lester Young - Lester Leaps In 3:15

13 Jones-smith Incorporated & Count Basie - Oh, Lady, Be Good! 3:08

14 Billie Holiday - Without Your Love 2:54

15 Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit 3:14

16 Eddie Heywood & Billie Holiday - God Bless The Child 2:56

17 Art Tatum - Three Little Words 2:27

18 Pete Johnson & "big" Joe Turner - Rebecca 2:43

19 Chick Webb - Harlem Congo 3:17

20 Chick Webb - A-Tisket A-Tasket 2:39

21 Django Reinhardt - Shine 2:59

22 Noble Sissle - Dear Old Southland 2:34

CD3

01 Coleman Hawkins - Body And Soul 3:04

02 Duke Ellington - Cotton Tail 3:14

03 Duke Ellington - Take The "A" Train 2:57

04 Artie Shaw - Begin The Beguine 3:16

05 Glenn Miller - In The Mood 3:36

06 Tommy Dorsey - Well, Git It! 3:03

07 Eddie Heywood & Billie Holiday - Solitude 3:16

08 Gene Krupa - Drum Boogie 3:09

09 Dizzy Gillespie - Salt Peanuts 3:15

10 Dizzy Gillespie - Groovin' High 2:43

11 Charlie Parker - Ko-Ko 2:56

12 Charlie Parker - Scrapple From The Apple 3:00

13 Charlie Parker - Embraceable You 3:46

14 Bud Powell - Get Happy 2:53

15 Thelonious Monk - Epistrophy 3:08

16 Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser 2:57

17 Dizzy Gillespie - Manteca 3:09

18 Miles Davis - Moon Dreams 3:20

19 Charlie Parker - Just Friends 3:33

20 Louis Armstrong - Rockin' Chair 3:07

21 Sarah Vaughan - They Can't Take That Away From Me 2:43

22 Chet Baker & Gerry Mulligan - Walkin' Shoes 3:12

23 Billie Holiday - Fine And Mellow 8:01

CD4

01 Horace Silver - Doodlin' 6:47

02 Clifford Brown & Max Roach - I Get A Kick Out Of You 7:42

03 Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas 6:45

04 The Modern Jazz Quartet - Django 7:05

05 Dave Brubeck - Take Five 5:25

06 Miles Davis - So What 9:23

07 John Coltrane - Giant Steps 4:46

08 Cecil Taylor - Rick Kick Shaw 6:06

09 Ornette Coleman - Chronology 6:07

10 Charles Mingus - Original Faubus Fables 9:15

11 John Coltrane - Acknowledgement (From "A Love Supreme") 7:47

CD5

01 Louis Armstrong - Hello, Dolly! 2:24

02 Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Desafinado 5:50

03 John Coltrane & Duke Ellington - In A Sentimental Mood 4:16

04 Duke Ellington - Tourist Point Of View 5:08

05 Miles Davis - E.S.P. 5:29

06 Miles Davis - Spanish Key 2:51

07 Weather Report - Birdland 5:58

08 Grover Washington, Jr. - Mister Magic 9:01

09 Herbie Hancock - Rockit 3:56

10 Ron Carter & Mc Solaar - Un Ange En Danger 3:50

11 Dexter Gordon - Tanya 7:26

12 Wynton Marsalis - Soon All Will Know 3:36

13 Cassandra Wilson - Death Letter 4:14

14 Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra - Take The "A" Train 5:34

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