The Best of Ken Burns Jazz

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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-11-07
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:

Star Dust - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
Dead man Blues - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
Dear Old Southland - Noble Sissle & His Orchestra featuring Sidney Bechet
Singin' the Blues - Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke
St. Louis Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
The Mooche - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
Hotter Than 'Ell - Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra
King Porter Stomp - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
Begin the Beguine - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
Cotton Tail - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
Jumpin' at the Woodside - Count Basie & His Orchestra
Solitude - Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood & His Orchestra
Groovin' High - Dizzy Gillespie featuring Charlie Parker
Straight, No Chaser - Thelonious Monk
They Can't Take That Away From Me - Sarah Vaughan & Her Trio
Take Five - The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Doodlin' - Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers
Giant Steps - John Coltrane Quartet
So What - Miles Davis Sextet
Take The "A" Train - The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

Music reviews of The Best of Ken Burns Jazz

Music Review: OK
Rating: 3 Stars

Not the best cd I have ever heard....maybe I don't know jazz like I should...

Description of The Best of Ken Burns Jazz

Ken Burns, America's premier documentary filmmaker, scores another hit with his landmark 10-part, 19-hour PBS documentary, Jazz. This sampler is a smaller version of the accompanying five-CD box set, with 22 selections spanning the music's many styles: from Benny Goodman's 1938 classic rendition of "King Porter Stomp" to John Coltrane's immortal "Giant Steps." Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan form a sweeping spectrum of jazz singing with their varying styles. Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker's "Groovin' High," Thelonious Monk's riff blues "'Straight, No Chaser," and Miles Davis's modal masterpiece "So What" are among the music's "greatest hits" compiled here. Louis Armstrong's down-home treatment of Hoagy Carmichael's "Star Dust" and Duke Ellington's rousing "Cotton Tail" show why they are the alpha and the omega of this music. Although the documentary and the sampler omit the avant-garde and Latin jazz, this is, overall, good one-stop shopping for those just getting in the groove. --Eugene Holley Jr.

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