Publisher's Synopsis
This 2 CD set, compiled by Mark Gridley, includes 35 historic recordings of the big names in jazz history. These CDs help students appreciate why listeners became so excited about their styles, and spares students and instructors from the need to search for hard-to-locate, high-quality examples of each style. Each selection on the 2 CD set is accompanied by a Listening Guide in Concise Guide to Jazz. You may add 12 more historical recordings by packaging with the Prentice Hall Jazz Collection CD (ISBN 0-13-227222-9 includes the text, 2 Jazz Classics CDs, and the Prentice Hall Jazz Collection CD.
Jazz Classics 2 CD set: Disc 1 Track1 Original Dixieland Jazz Band: "Dixie Jazz Band One-Step" (1917) 2 King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: "Alligator Hop" (1923) 3 Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong: "Reckless Blues" (1923) 4 Frankie Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke: "Riverboat Shuffle" (1927) 5 Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines: "West End Blues" (1928) 6 Art Tatum: "Tiger Rag" (1933) 7 Count Basie and Lester Young: "Lady Be Good" (1936) 8 Roy Eldridge and Chu Berry: "Sittin' In" (1938) 9 Count Basie and Lester Young: "Taxi War Dance" (1939) 10 Billie Holiday and Lester Young: "Back in Your Own Back Yard" (1939) 11 Coleman Hawkins: "Body and Soul" (1939) 12 Duke Ellington, Cootie Williams, and Barney Bigard: "Harlem Airshaft" (1940) 13 Johnny Hodges: "I've Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" (1961) 14 Ella Fitzgerald: "Flying Home" (1945) 15 Dexter Gordon and Fats Navarro: "Index" (1947) 16 Charlie Parker and John Lewis: "Parker's Mood" (1948) 17 Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie: "Leap Frog" (1950) 18 Bud Powell: "Get Happy" (1950) 19 Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz: "Subconscious-Lee" (1949) 20 Stan Kenton and Lee Konitz: "Improvisation" (1953) 21 J. J. Johnson, Clifford Brown, and Jimmy Heath: "Get Happy" (1953) 22 Stan Getz: "It Never Entered My Mind" (1957) 23 Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane: "Two Bass Hit" (1958) 24 Miles Davis, Bill Evans, and John Coltrane: "Blue in Green" (1959) Disc 2 Track 1 Wes Montgomery: "Mr Walker" (1960) 2 Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motian: "Solar" (1961) 3 John Coltrane: "Your Lady" (1963) 4 Art Blakey, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, and Curtis Fuller: "The Egyptian" (1964) 5 Ornette Coleman: "Dee-Dee" excerpt (1965) 6 Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, and Herbie Hancock: "Prince of Darkness" (1967) 7 John Coltrane and Rashied Ali: "Mars" 8 Chick Corea: "Captain Marvel" (1972) 9 Horace Silver, Michael Brecker, and Randy Brecker: "Gregory is Here" (1972) 10 Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek: "The Wind-Up" (1974) 11 Weather Report: "Birdland" (1977)
