The Best of Ken Burns Jazz

The Best of Ken Burns Jazz

The Best of Ken Burns Jazz
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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-11-07
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Star Dust - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
  2. Dead man Blues - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
  3. Dear Old Southland - Noble Sissle & His Orchestra featuring Sidney Bechet
  4. Singin' the Blues - Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke
  5. St. Louis Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
  6. The Mooche - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
  7. Hotter Than 'Ell - Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra
  8. King Porter Stomp - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
  9. Begin the Beguine - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
  10. Cotton Tail - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
  11. Jumpin' at the Woodside - Count Basie & His Orchestra
  12. Solitude - Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood & His Orchestra
  13. Groovin' High - Dizzy Gillespie featuring Charlie Parker
  14. Straight, No Chaser - Thelonious Monk
  15. They Can't Take That Away From Me - Sarah Vaughan & Her Trio
  16. Take Five - The Dave Brubeck Quartet
  17. Doodlin' - Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers
  18. Giant Steps - John Coltrane Quartet
  19. So What - Miles Davis Sextet
  20. Take The "A" Train - The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

Music reviews of The Best of Ken Burns Jazz

Music Review: Essential for any jazz lover or Ken Burns JAZZ series collector!
Rating: 5 Stars

Don't feel like buying every single artist in the 'Ken Burns JAZZ' series? Well, now there's a solution. 'The Best of Ken Burns JAZZ' offers all of the highlights from the discs you can buy in the series on one CD!

All of the jazz giants are here. Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and Dizzy Gillespie are all on this disc. These artists all had discs in Burns' series.

Another pleasant treat? The inclusion of artists that were not in the series! Jelly Roll Morton, The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and several others that did not get the Ken Burns "royal treatment" are getting it now on this specially priced compilation.

Overall, if you want a quick look at Ken Burns' series at a great price, than do buy 'The Best of Ken Burns JAZZ.' You won't be disappointed. You'll get a lot of bang for your buck.

Highly recommended for any jazz or 'Ken Burns JAZZ' series collector. You won't regret this purchase. ENJOY!!!

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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