Compact disc. Program notes inserted in container. Subtitle on booklet: The birth of big band jazz: 1927-1934. Various jazz bands, in part with vocals ; featuring Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, Jimmie Lunceford, and Bennie Moten. Recorded in 1927-1934.
Contents:
Market Street stomp (3:24) ; Prohibition blues (3:17) (The Missourians) -- Swing out (3:17) ; Pleasin' Paul (2:54) (Henry "Red" Allen and his orchestra) -- White heat (2:29) ; Swingin' uptown (2:37) (Jimmie Lunceford and his orchestra) -- I've got the world on a string (3:13) ; Basin Street blues (3:23) (Louis Armstrong and his orchestra). St. Louis shuffle (2:48) ; Sugar foot stomp (3:02) ; Jimtown blues (2:41) (Fletcher Henderson and his orchestra) -- Diga diga doo (2:57) ; Saratoga swing (2:44) ; Blue feeling (3:10) (Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra) -- South (2:31) ; Moten swing (3:22) (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra) -- Milenberg joys (2:52) ; Plain dirt (2:38) (McKinney's Cotton Pickers) -- Grand piano blues (2:56) ; Everybody loves my baby (3:14) (Earl Hines and his orchestra) -- Hot tempered blues (3:14) ; The boy in the boat (The rock) (3:42) (Charlie Johnson's Paradise Ten)
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