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The Smithsonian collection of classic jazz

Title
The Smithsonian collection of classic jazz [sound recording] / [selected and annotated by Martin Williams ; prepared in cooperation with Columbia Special Products].
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Division of Performing Arts, Smithsonian Institution : Distribution by W.W. Norton & Co., p1973.

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Additional Authors
Williams, Martin, 1924-1992.
Description
6 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono., stereo.; 12 in.
Subjects
Note
  • In part stereophonic.
  • Program notes by the compiler, recording dates, complete personnel, and bibliography (46 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.) laid in container.
Event (note)
  • Recorded 1916-1966.
Contents
  • side 1. Maple Leaf Rag / Scott Joplin -- Maple Leaf Rag / Jelly Roll Morton (piano solo) -- Hellhound on My Trail / Robert Johnson -- St Louis Blues; Lost Your Head Blues / Bessie Smith -- Dippermouth Blues / King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band -- Grandpa's Spells; Dead Man Blues / Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers -- side 2. Black Bottom Stomp / Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers -- Cake Walking Babies / Red Onion Jazz Babies -- Blue Horizon / Sidney Bechet and his Blue Note Jazzmen -- Carolina Shout / James P. Johnson (piano solo) -- Struttin' With Some Barbeque / Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five -- S. O. L. Blues; Potato Head Blues / Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven -- Hotter Than That; West End Blues / Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five --
  • side 3. Weather Bird / Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines -- Sweethearts on Parade / Louis Armstrong and his Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra -- I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues / Louis Armstrong and his orchestra -- Singin' the Blues; Riverboat Shuffle / Frankie Trumbauer and his orchestra -- The Stampede; Wrappin' it Up / Fletcher Henderson and his orchestra -- Moten Swing / Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra -- side 4. I Ain't Got Nobody / Fats Waller (piano solo) -- Honky Tonk Train / Meade "Lux" Lewis -- Body and Soul / Benny Goodman Trio -- Body and Soul / Coleman Hawkins and his orchestra -- The Man I Love / Coleman Hawkins Quartet -- He's Funy That Way / Billie Holiday and her orchestra -- All of Me / Billie Holiday and Eddie Heywood and his orchestra -- You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To / Ella Fitzgerald --
  • side 5. Willow Weep for Me; Too Marvelous For Words / Art Tatum (piano solo) -- Lunceford Special / Jimmy Lunceford and his orchestra -- Rockin' Chair / Gene Krupa and his orchestra -- I Can't Believe that You're in Love with Me / Roy Eldridge and Benny Carter -- When Lights Are Low / Lionel Hampton -- Doggin' Around / Count Basie and his orchestra -- Taxi War Dance / Count Basie -- side 6. Lester Leaps In / Count Basie's Kansas City Seven -- I Found a New Baby / Benny Goodman Sextet -- Blues Sequence (from Breakfast Feud) / Charlie Christian with the Benny Goodman Sextet -- East St. Louis Toodle-Oo / Duke Ellington and his orchestra --New East St. Louis Toodle-Oo; Creole Rhapsody / Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra -- Harlem Air Shaft; Concerto for Cootie / Duke Ellington and his orchestra --
  • side 7. In a Mellotone; Ko-ko; Blues Serge / Duke Ellington and his orchestra -- I Got Rhythm / Don Byas -- I Can't Get Started / Dizzy Gillespie Sextet -- Shaw 'Nuff / Dizzy Gillespie's All Star Quintet -- KoKo / Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers -- Embraceable You; Embraceable You (alternate version) / Charlie Parker -- side 8. Klacktoveedsedsteen / Charlie Parker -- Little Benny / Charlie Parker Sextet -- Parker's Mood / Charlie Parker's All Stars -- Fantasy on "Frankie and Johnny" / Erroll Garner Trio -- Somebody Loves Me / Budy Powell Trio -- Dancing in the Dark; Aint's No Use / Sarah Vaughan -- Crosscurrent / Lennie Tristano --
  • side 9. Boplicity / Miles Davis and his orchestra -- Lady Bird / Tadd Dameron's Sextet -- Bikini / Dexter Gordon Quartet -- Misterioso / Thelonious Monk Quartet -- Criss Cross / Thelonious Monk Quintet -- Evidence / Thelonious Monk -- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / Thelonious Monk Quintet -- I Should Care / Thelonious Monk -- side 10. Blues Improvisation (excerpt from Bag's Groove by Miles Davis All Stars) / Thelonious Monk -- Summertime / Miles Davis with Gil Evans' Orchestra -- Blue 7 / Sonny Rollins Quartet -- Django / Modern Jazz Quartet -- Hora Decubitus / Charlie Mingus and his orchestra --
  • side 11. Pent-Up House (excerpt) / Sonny Rollins Plus Four -- Enter Evening / Cecil Taylor -- So What / Miles Davis Sextet -- side 12. Lonely Woman; Congeniality; Free Jazz (excerpt) / Ornette Coleman -- Alabama / John Coltrane.
Call Number
*LRX 5765
LCCN
73750911
OCLC
1157302
Title
The Smithsonian collection of classic jazz [sound recording] / [selected and annotated by Martin Williams ; prepared in cooperation with Columbia Special Products].
Imprint
Washington, D.C. : Division of Performing Arts, Smithsonian Institution : Distribution by W.W. Norton & Co., p1973.
Performer
Jazz ensembles, piano solos (a few selections), and blues, performed by various artists including vocalists.
Event
Recorded 1916-1966.
Added Author
Williams, Martin, 1924-1992.
Publisher No.
P6 11891 (P 11892-11897) Smithsonian
Research Call Number
*LRX 5765
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