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Annotation

A 168-CD box, divided into 42 sets à 4 CDs in Sitofy cases. Each set has its own catalog #, ranging from 22757-382 to 22798-382, with /A-D added for CDs 1-4, respectively. Each CD is called "Menu" here and is dedicated to one musician or band, who mostly appears in different collaborations.

Includes two 180-page books with artist biographies.

Set 01-09: "Classic Jazz - Ragtime - Dixieland"
Set 10-16: "Blues"
Set 17: "Boogie Woogie"
Set 18-32: "Swing to Bebop - Modern Jazz"
Set 33-37: "Big Band"
Set 38-42: "Vocalists"

Annotation last modified on 2014-08-22 21:23 UTC.

Tracklist

1▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Scott Joplin
2▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Original Dixieland Jazz Band
3▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – New Orleans Rhythm Kings
4▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – King Oliver
5▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Jelly Roll Morton
6▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Duke Ellington
7▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Bix Beiderbecke
8▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Buster Bailey
9▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Johnny Dodds
10▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Louis Armstrong
11▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Luis Russell
12▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Red Nichols
13▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – McKinney’s Cotton Pickers
14▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Jack Teagarden
15▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – J.C. Higginbotham
16▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Benny Carter
17▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Clarence Williams
18▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Fletcher Henderson
19▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Jabbo Smith’s Rhythm Aces
20▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – the Rhythmakers
21▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Sidney Bechet
22▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Washboard Rhythm Kings
23▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Mezz Mezzrow
24▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Pee Wee Russell
25▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Muggsy Spanier
26▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Bud Freeman
27▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Eddie Condon Dixieland All‐Stars
28▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – George Wettling
29▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Lu Watters
30▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Bobby Hackett
31▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Edmond Hall
32▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Barney Bigard
33▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Kid Ory
34▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Wilbur de Paris
35▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – George Lewis Ragtime Jazzband of New Orleans
36▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Louis Armstrong [Louis Armstrong and His All‐Stars]
37▶CD: Blues – Bessie Smith
38▶CD: Blues – Ma Rainey
39▶CD: Blues – Mississippi John Hurt
40▶CD: Blues – Tampa Red
41▶CD: Blues – T‐Bone Walker
42▶CD: Blues – Josh White
43▶CD: Blues – Blind Willie McTell
44▶CD: Blues – Big Bill Broonzy
45▶CD: Blues – Leadbelly
46▶CD: Blues – Big Joe Williams
47▶CD: Blues – Robert Johnson
48▶CD: Blues – Kokomo Arnold
49▶CD: Blues – John Lee Williamson [Sonny Boy Williamson]
50▶CD: Blues – Sonny Terry
51▶CD: Blues – Sleepy John Estes
52▶CD: Blues – Brownie McGhee
53▶CD: Blues – Memphis Slim
54▶CD: Blues – Muddy Waters
55▶CD: Blues – Big Boy Crudup [Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup]
56▶CD: Blues – Big Joe Turner
57▶CD: Blues – Roosevelt Sykes
58▶CD: Blues – Lightnin’ Hopkins
59▶CD: Blues – John Lee Hooker
60▶CD: Blues – Johnny Otis
61▶CD: Blues – B.B. King
62▶CD: Blues – Jimmy Witherspoon
63▶CD: Blues – Howlin’ Wolf
64▶CD: Blues – Ray Charles
65▶CD: Boogie Woogie – Albert Ammons
66▶CD: Boogie Woogie – Meade “Lux” Lewis
67▶CD: Boogie Woogie – Pete Johnson
68▶CD: Boogie Woogie – the Big Band Boogie Woogie
69▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang
70▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Fats Waller
71▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Coleman Hawkins
72▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Art Tatum
73▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Ben Webster
74▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Django Reinhardt [Quintette Du Hot club de France]
75▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Benny Goodman
76▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Roy Eldridge
77▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Earl “Fatha” Hines
78▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lester Young
79▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Teddy Wilson
80▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Benny Carter
81▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lionel Hampton
82▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charlie Shavers [John Kirby and His Onyx club Boys]
83▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charlie Christian
84▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Dexter Gordon
85▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Erroll Garner
86▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Slam Stewart
87▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Wardell Gray
88▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lucky Thompson
89▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Don Byas
90▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Illinois Jacquet
91▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charlie Parker
92▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Dizzy Gillespie
93▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis
94▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lennie Tristano
95▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Thelonious Monk
96▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Fats Navarro
97▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – George Shearing
98▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Gene Ammons
99▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Sonny Stitt
100▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Bud Powell
101▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lee Konitz
102▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Miles Davis
103▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Zoot Sims
104▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Herbie Mann
105▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – James Moody
106▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Stan Getz
107▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Dave Brubeck
108▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – the Modern Jazz Quartet
109▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Jay Jay Johnson [J. J. Johnson]
110▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Gerry Mulligan
111▼CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Sonny Rollins
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Scoops
recording of:
Scoops
composer:
Sonny Rollins (American saxophonist)
Sonny Rollins2:15
2With a Song in My Heart
Sonny Rollins3:08
3Newk's Fadeaway
miscellaneous support:
Ira Gitler (task: supervised by)
bass and double bass:
Percy Heath (on 1951-12-17)
drums (drum set):
Percy Heath and Art Blakey (on 1951-12-17)
piano:
Kenny Drew (on 1951-12-17)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (American saxophonist) (on 1951-12-17)
Sonny Rollins3:13
4Time on My Hands
Sonny Rollins2:42
5This Love of Mine
miscellaneous support:
Ira Gitler (task: supervised by)
bass and double bass:
Percy Heath (on 1951-12-17)
drums (drum set):
Percy Heath and Art Blakey (on 1951-12-17)
piano:
Kenny Drew (on 1951-12-17)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (American saxophonist) (on 1951-12-17)
instrumental recording of:
This Love of Mine (on 1951-12-17)
lyricist:
Frank Sinatra (American singer and actor, “Ol’ Blue Eyes”)
composer:
Sol Parker (songwriter) and Henry Sanicola
publisher:
Embassy Music Corporation and Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996)
Sonny Rollins2:25
6Shadrack
Sonny Rollins2:34
7On a Slow Boat to China
Sonny Rollins2:41
8Mambo Bounce
miscellaneous support:
Ira Gitler (task: supervised by)
bass and double bass:
Percy Heath (on 1951-12-17)
drums (drum set):
Art Blakey (on 1951-12-17)
piano:
Kenny Drew (on 1951-12-17)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (American saxophonist) (on 1951-12-17)
recording of:
Mambo Bounce (on 1951-12-17)
composer:
Sonny Rollins (American saxophonist)
Sonny Rollins2:23
9I Know
Sonny Rollins2:33
10Dig
recording engineer:
Rudy van Gelder (on 1951-10-05)
producer:
Bob Weinstock
alto saxophone:
Jackie McLean (jazz saxophonist) (on 1951-10-05)
double bass:
Tommy Potter (on 1951-10-05)
drums (drum set):
Art Blakey (on 1951-10-05)
piano:
Walter Bishop, Jr. (American jazz pianist) (on 1951-10-05)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (American saxophonist) (on 1951-10-05)
trumpet:
Miles Davis (jazz trumpeter, bandleader, songwriter) (on 1951-10-05)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Fantasy, Inc. (not for release label use!) and Prestige (American jazz label)
recorded at:
Apex Studios in New York, New York, United States (on 1951-10-05)
recording of:
Dig (on 1951-10-05)
composer:
Miles Davis (jazz trumpeter, bandleader, songwriter)
publisher:
Jazz Horn Music and Second Floor Music
Miles Davis Sextet7:35
11It's Only a Paper Moon
recording engineer:
Rudy van Gelder (on 1951-10-05)
producer:
Bob Weinstock
double bass:
Tommy Potter (on 1951-10-05)
drums (drum set):
Art Blakey (on 1951-10-05)
piano:
Walter Bishop, Jr. (American jazz pianist) (on 1951-10-05)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (American saxophonist) (on 1951-10-05)
trumpet:
Miles Davis (jazz trumpeter, bandleader, songwriter) (on 1951-10-05)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Fantasy, Inc. (not for release label use!) and Prestige (American jazz label)
recorded at:
Apex Studios in New York, New York, United States (on 1951-10-05)
instrumental recording of:
It’s Only a Paper Moon (on 1951-10-05)
lyricist:
E.Y. Harburg (in 1933) and Billy Rose (lyricist and Broadway producer) (in 1933)
composer:
Harold Arlen (in 1933)
publisher:
Anne‐Rachel Music Corp., Chappell & Co., Chappell Music Ltd., Gloccamorria Music, Next Decade Entertainment, S.A. Music Co., SA Music, Shapiro Bernstein & Co. Ltd. and Warner Bros. Music (publisher; do NOT use as release label)
Miles Davis Sextet5:25
12Denial
Miles Davis Sextet5:40
13Out of the Blue
recording engineer:
Rudy van Gelder (on 1951-10-05)
producer:
Bob Weinstock
alto saxophone:
Jackie McLean (jazz saxophonist) (on 1951-10-05)
double bass:
Tommy Potter (on 1951-10-05)
drums (drum set):
Art Blakey (on 1951-10-05)
piano:
Walter Bishop, Jr. (American jazz pianist) (on 1951-10-05)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (American saxophonist) (on 1951-10-05)
trumpet:
Miles Davis (jazz trumpeter, bandleader, songwriter) (on 1951-10-05)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Fantasy, Inc. (not for release label use!)
recorded at:
Apex Studios in New York, New York, United States (on 1951-10-05)
recording of:
Out of the Blue (on 1951-10-05)
composer:
Miles Davis (jazz trumpeter, bandleader, songwriter) and Red Mitchell (jazz double-bassist, composer and lyricist)
publisher:
Second Floor Music
Miles Davis Sextet6:16
14Almost Like Being in Love
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1953-10-07)
miscellaneous support:
Ira Gitler (task: supervised by)
bass:
Percy Heath (on 1953-10-07)
drums (drum set):
Kenny Clarke (on 1953-10-07)
piano:
John Lewis (pianist, member of Modern Jazz Quartet) (on 1953-10-07)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (American saxophonist) (on 1953-10-07)
vibraphone:
Milt Jackson (on 1953-10-07)
instrumental recording of:
Almost Like Being in Love (from “Brigadoon”) (on 1953-10-07)
lyricist:
Alan Jay Lerner
composer:
Frederick Loewe
publisher:
EMI Music (do not use as release label! this is a music publisher), EMI U Catalog Inc. (publisher; do NOT use as release label), EMI United Partnership Ltd., Sam Fox Publishing Co. (London) Ltd., Sam Fox Publishing Company (publisher; do NOT use as release label), WC Music Corp., フジパシフィックミュージック SBK事業部 (Fujipacific Music SBK Department) and ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., holding company – do not use as release label)
part of:
Brigadoon (complete musical)
Modern Jazz Quartet and Sonny Rollins3:25
15In a Sentimental Mood
miscellaneous support:
Ira Gitler (task: supervised by)
bass:
Percy Heath (on 1953-10-07)
drums (drum set):
Kenny Clarke (on 1953-10-07)
piano:
John Lewis (pianist, member of Modern Jazz Quartet) (on 1953-10-07)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (American saxophonist) (on 1953-10-07)
vibraphone:
Milt Jackson (on 1953-10-07)
recording of:
In a Sentimental Mood (on 1953-10-07)
lyricist:
Manny Kurtz and Irving Mills
composer:
Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) (in 1935)
publisher:
American Academy of Music, Inc., Famous Music Corporation (renamed since 2007‐05 as Sony/ATV Harmony/Melody), J. R. Lafleur & Son Ltd., Lafleur Music Ltd., Mills Music and Sony/ATV Harmony
instrumental recording of:
In a Sentimental Mood (on 1953-10-07)
lyricist:
Manny Kurtz and Irving Mills
composer:
Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) (in 1935)
publisher:
American Academy of Music, Inc., Famous Music Corporation (renamed since 2007‐05 as Sony/ATV Harmony/Melody), J. R. Lafleur & Son Ltd., Lafleur Music Ltd., Mills Music and Sony/ATV Harmony
Modern Jazz Quartet and Sonny Rollins3:20
16No Moe
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1953-10-07)
miscellaneous support:
Ira Gitler (task: supervised by)
bass:
Percy Heath (on 1953-10-07)
drums (drum set):
Kenny Clarke (on 1953-10-07)
piano:
John Lewis (pianist, member of Modern Jazz Quartet) (on 1953-10-07)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (American saxophonist) (on 1953-10-07)
vibraphone:
Milt Jackson (on 1953-10-07)
recording of:
No Moe (on 1953-10-07)
composer:
Sonny Rollins (American saxophonist)
Modern Jazz Quartet and Sonny Rollins3:31
17The Stopper
miscellaneous support:
Ira Gitler (task: supervised by)
bass:
Percy Heath (on 1953-10-07)
drums (drum set):
Kenny Clarke (on 1953-10-07)
piano:
John Lewis (pianist, member of Modern Jazz Quartet) (on 1953-10-07)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (American saxophonist) (on 1953-10-07)
vibraphone:
Milt Jackson (on 1953-10-07)
recording of:
The Stopper (on 1953-10-07)
composer:
Sonny Rollins (American saxophonist)
Modern Jazz Quartet and Sonny Rollins2:58
18Friday the 13th
Modern Jazz Quartet and Sonny Rollins10:33
112▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Paul Quinichette
113▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Art Pepper
114▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Shorty Rogers
115▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Horace Silver
116▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Chet Baker
117▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Bud Shank
118▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Clifford Brown
119▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charlie Parker
120▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Barney Kessel
121▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lou Donaldson
122▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Art Farmer
123▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Tal Farlow
124▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charles Mingus
125▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Dizzy Gillespie
126▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Phil Woods
127▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Jackie McLean & Donald Byrd
128▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – the Jazz Messengers [Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers]
129▶CD: Big Bands – Bennie Moten
130▶CD: Big Bands – Jimmie Lunceford
131▶CD: Big Bands – Fletcher Henderson
132▶CD: Big Bands – Chick Webb
133▶CD: Big Bands – Benny Goodman
134▶CD: Big Bands – Tommy Dorsey
135▶CD: Big Bands – Harry James
136▶CD: Big Bands – Earl “Fatha” Hines [Earl Hines and His Orchestra]
137▶CD: Big Bands – Count Basie
138▶CD: Big Bands – Artie Shaw
139▶CD: Big Bands – Glenn Miller
140▶CD: Big Bands – Bunny Berigan
141▶CD: Big Bands – Gene Krupa
142▶CD: Big Bands – Charlie Barnet
143▶CD: Big Bands – Erskine Hawkins
144▶CD: Big Bands – Lionel Hampton
145▶CD: Big Bands – Duke Ellington
146▶CD: Big Bands – Woody Herman
147▶CD: Big Bands – Stan Kenton
148▶CD: Big Bands – Shorty Rogers
149▶CD: Vocalists – the Boswell Sisters
150▶CD: Vocalists – the Mills Brothers
151▶CD: Vocalists – Billie Holiday
152▶CD: Vocalists – Mildred Bailey
153▶CD: Vocalists – Ivie Anderson
154▶CD: Vocalists – Ella Fitzgerald
155▶CD: Vocalists – the Andrews Sisters
156▶CD: Vocalists – Lena Horne
157▶CD: Vocalists – Anita O’Day
158▶CD: Vocalists – Billy Eckstine
159▶CD: Vocalists – Peggy Lee
160▶CD: Vocalists – Nat King Cole
161▶CD: Vocalists – June Christy
162▶CD: Vocalists – Frank Sinatra
163▶CD: Vocalists – Dinah Washington
164▶CD: Vocalists – Mel Tormé
165▶CD: Vocalists – Sarah Vaughan
166▶CD: Vocalists – Ella Fitzgerald
167▶CD: Vocalists – Joe Williams
168▶CD: Vocalists – Billie Holiday