The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz - 6 Vinyl Album Box Set 86 Songs

Description: The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz is a six-LP box set released in 1973 by the Smithsonian Institution. Compiled by jazz critic, scholar, and historian Martin Williams, the album included tracks from over a dozen record labels spanning several decades and genres of American jazz, from ragtime and big band to post-bop and free jazz. Side one Scott Joplin – "Maple Leaf Rag" (Joplin) – 3:16 Jelly Roll Morton – "Maple Leaf Rag" (Joplin) – 2:37 Robert Johnson – "Hellhound on My Trail" (Johnson) – 2:39 Bessie Smith – "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 3:12 Bessie Smith – "Lost Your Head Blues" (Bessie Smith) – 2:57 King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band – "Dippermouth Blues" (Joe "King" Oliver) – 2:22 Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers – "Grandpa's Spells" (F. J. Morton) – 2:55 Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers – "Dead Man Blues" (Morton) – 3:00 Side two Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers – "Black Bottom Stomp" (Morton) – 3:14 The Red Onion Jazz Babies– "Cake Walking Babies (From Home)" (B. Smith, A. Troy, and C. Williams) – 3:28 Sidney Bechet and His Blue Note Jazzmen – "Blue Horizon" (Bechet) – 4:26 James P. Johnson – "Carolina Shout" (Johnson) – 2:47 Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five – "Struttin' with Some Barbeque" (Lil Hardin Armstrong, Don Raye) – 3:04 Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven – "S.O.L. Blues" (Excerpt) (Louis Armstrong) – 1:05 Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven – "Potato Head Blues" (Excerpt) (Louis Armstrong) – 1:14 Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five – "Hotter Than That" (Lil Hardin Armstrong) – 3:02 Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five – "West End Blues" (Joe "King" Oliver) – 3:17 Side three Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines – "Weather Bird" (Louis Armstrong) – 2:46 Louis Armstrong and His Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra – "Sweethearts on Parade" (C. Lombardo and C. Newman) – 3:15 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra – "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler) – 2:59 Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra – "Riverboat Shuffle" (Hoagy Carmichael, Irving Mills, and Mitchell Parish) – 3:15 Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra – "Singin' the Blues" (Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh) – 3:02 Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra – "The Stampede" (Henderson) – 3:18 Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra – "Wrappin' It Up" (Henderson) – 2:48 Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra – "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten and Buster Moten) – 3:26 Side four Fats Waller – "I Ain't Got Nobody" (Roger A. Graham and Spencer Williams) – 3:09 Meade Lux Lewis – "Honky Tonk Train" (Lewis) – 3:01 Benny Goodman Trio – "Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, and Robert Sour) – 3:30 Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra – "Body and Soul" (Eyton, Green, Heyman, and Sour) – 3:02 Coleman Hawkins Quartet – "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin) – 5:10 Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra – "He's Funny That Way" (Neil Morret and Richard A. Whiting) – 2:41 Billie Holiday and Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra – "All of Me" (Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons) – 2:59 Ella Fitzgerald – "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Cole Porter) – 2:56 Side five Art Tatum – "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronnell) – 2:58 Art Tatum – "Too Marvelous for Words" (Johnny Mercer and Richard A. Whiting) – 2:25 Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra – "Lunceford Special" (Eddie Durham) – 2:51 Gene Krupa and His Orchestra – "Rockin' Chair" (Carmichael) – 3:02 Roy Eldridge and Benny Carter – "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me" (Excerpt) (Clarence Gaskill and McHugh) – 3:02 Lionel Hampton – "When Lights Are Low" (Benny Carter) – 2:15 Count Basie and His Orchestra – "Doggin' Around" (Edgar Battle and Herschel Evans) – 2:57 Count Basie – "Taxi War Dance" (Basie and Lester Young) – 2:55 Side six Count Basie's Kansas City Seven – "Lester Leaps In" (Young) – 3:14 Benny Goodman Sextet – "I Found a New Baby" (Jack Palmer and Spencer Williams) – 2:57 Benny Goodman Sextet and Charlie Christian – "Blues Sequence" (From Breakfast Feud) (Goodman) – 2:24 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra – "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" (Ellington and Bubber Miley) – 3:38 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra – "New East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" (Ellington and Miley) – 3:04 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra – "Creole Rhapsody" (Ellington) – 6:00 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra – "Harlem Air Shaft" (Ellington) – 3:00 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra – "Concerto for Cootie" (Ellington) – 3:22 Side seven Duke Ellington and His Orchestra – "In a Mellotone" (Ellington) – 3:19 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra – "Ko-Ko" (Ellington) – 2:42 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra – "Blue Serge" (Mercer Ellington) – 3:22 Don Byas – "I Got Rhythm" (George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin) – 5:07 Dizzy Gillespie Sextet – "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke and Ira Gershwin) – 3:08 Dizzy Gillespie's All Star Quintet – "Shaw 'Nuff" (Gillespie and Parker) – 2:57 Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers – "KoKo" (Parker) – 2:57 Charlie Parker – "Embraceable You" (Excerpt) (George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin) – 2:14 Charlie Parker – "Embraceable You" (Alternate Version) (Excerpt) (George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin) – 2:01 Side eight Charlie Parker Quintet – "Klacktoveedsedsteen" (Parker) – 3:02 Charlie Parker Sextet – "Little Benny" (Benny Harris) – 3:30 Charlie Parker's All Stars – "Parker's Mood" (Parker) – 3:01 Erroll Garner – "Fantasy On 'Frankie and Johnny" (Garner) – 2:55 Bud Powell Trio – "Somebody Loves Me" (Buddy DeSylva, George Gershwin, and Ballard MacDonald) – 2:48 Sarah Vaughan – "Dancing in the Dark" (Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz) – 2:37 Sarah Vaughan – "Ain't No Use" (Leroy Kirkland and Sidney J. Wyche) – 3:55 Lennie Tristano – "Crosscurrent" (Lennie Tristano) – 2:52 Side nine Miles Davis and His Orchestra – "Boplicity" (Gil Evans and Cleo Henry) – 3:02 Tadd Dameron's Sextet – "Lady Bird" (Tadd Dameron) – 2:54 Dexter Gordon Quartet – "Bikini" (Gordon) – 3:32 Thelonious Monk Quartet – "Misterioso" (Monk) – 3:22 Thelonious Monk Quintet – "Criss-Cross" (Monk) – 3:00 Thelonious Monk – "Evidence" (Monk) – 2:35 Thelonious Monk Quintet – "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (Otto Harbach and Jerome Kern) – 4:32 Thelonious Monk – "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, and Paul Weston) – 3:16 Side ten Thelonious Monk – "Blues Improvisation" (Excerpt from "Bags' Groove") (Milt Jackson) – 2:54 Miles Davis with Gil Evans' Orchestra – "Summertime" (George Gershwin) – 3:22 Sonny Rollins Quartet – "Blue 7" (Rollins) – 11:22 Modern Jazz Quartet – "Django" (John Lewis) – 5:34 Charles Mingus and His Orchestra – "Hora Decubitus" (Mingus) – 4:44 Side eleven Sonny Rollins Plus 4 – "Pent-Up House" (Excerpt) (Rollins) – 7:32 Cecil Taylor – "Enter Evening" (Taylor) – 11:05 Miles Davis Sextet – "So What" (Davis) – 9:11 Side twelve Ornette Coleman – "Lonely Woman" (Coleman) – 5:02 Ornette Coleman – "Congeniality" (Coleman) – 6:45 Ornette Coleman – "Free Jazz" (Excerpt) (Coleman) – 10:14 John Coltrane – "Alabama" (Coltrane) – 5:07

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