Research Catalog

Title

Big band jazz : from the beginnings to the fifties.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Collection of Recordings, [1983], ℗1983.

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Additional Authors

• Schuller, Gunther.
• Williams, Martin, 1924-1992.

Description

6 audio discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in.

Subjects

• Jazz musicians > Biography
• Big band music
• Jazz
• Big bands > Bibliography

Note

• "Produced in association with RCA Special Products."
• Selected and annotated by Gunther Schuller and Martin Williams.
• Source recordings from the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University, private collectors, and participating record companies.
• Program notes by the compilers including A selected bibliography of big bands and A biographical index by Leonard Guttridge (52 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.) inserted in container.

Contents

• Paul Whiteman and his orch.: Changes ; Lonely Melody -- Fletcher Henderson and his orch.: Copenhagen ; Henderson stomp; Hop off ; New King Porter stomp ; Down South camp meetin\u0027 -- McKinney\u0027s cotton pickers: Put it there ; Stop kidding -- Luis Russell and his orch.: Ol\u0027 man river -- Jesse Stone and his blue serenaders: Starvation blues ; Market Street stomp -- The Casa Loma orch.: Casa Loma stomp -- Bennie Moten\u0027s Kansas City orch.: Toby ; Moten swing -- Earl Hines and his orch.: Madhouse ; Fat babes ; Rock and rye ; Grand terrace shuffle -- Chick Webb\u0027s Savoy orch.: Stomping at the Savoy -- Chick Webb and his orch.: Don\u0027t be that way ; That naughty waltz ; Harlem Congo -- Jimmie Lunceford and his orch.: Mood indigo ; Stratosphere ; Stomp it off ; Organ grinder\u0027s swing ; Uptown blues -- Benny Goodman and his orch.: Sometimes I\u0027m happy ; King Porter ; Sing, sing, sing ; Ridin\u0027 high ; Mission to Moscow.
• Andy Kirk and his twelve clouds of joy: Big Jim blues -- Tommy Dorsey and his orch.: Song of India ; Well, git it! ; On the sunny side of the street ; Opus no. one -- Count Basie and his orch.: One o\u0027clock jump ; Sent for you yesterday ; Jumpin\u0027 at the Woodside ; Volcano ; 9:20 special ; Shiny stockings -- Charlie Barnet and his orch.: Cherokee ; Skyliner -- Artie Shaw and his orch.: Begin the beguine ; Rose room ; Stardust -- Glenn Miller and his orch.: I got rhythm ; In the mood ; A string of pearls -- Harry James and his orch.: The mole ; Friar rock -- Benny Carter and his orch.: Shufflebag shuffle -- Erskine Hawkins and his orch.: Tuxedo junction ; Midnight stroll -- Duke Ellington and his famous orch.: A Gypsy without a song ; Take the "A" train ; Just a-sittin\u0027 and a-rockin\u0027 ; Perdido ; The "C" jam blues ; Main Stem ; Happy go lucky local -- Louis Armstrong and his orch.: Leap frog -- Lionel Hampton and his orch.: Till Tom special ; Flying home -- Woody Herman and his orch.: Down under ; Apple honey ; Bijou ; Four brothers -- Billy Erskine and his orch.: Cool breeze -- Boyd Raeburn and his orch.: A night in Tunisia ; Boyd meets Stravinsky --Dizzy Gillespie and his orch.: Our delight ; Things to come -- Claude Thornhill and his orch.: Robbins nest ; Donna Lee -- Elliot Lawrence and his orch.: Elevation -- Stan Kenton and his orch.: What\u0027s new?

LCCN

95786811

OCLC

• ocm21829739
• SCSB-4881081

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries