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The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz

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6 Album Set

1973 Columbia Special Products P6-11892

Vinyl NM

Box jacket NM with book insert

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A compilation by:

Martin T. Williams (1924–1992)...born in Richmond, Virginia. He was a critic, specializing in jazz and American popular culture. He wrote for major jazz magazines, notably Down Beat, cofounded and coedited The Jazz Review, and wrote many books on jazz, summing up his understanding of its history in The Jazz Tradition (1970). From 1971 to 1981 he directed the Jazz and American Culture programs at the Smithsonian Institution, where he compiled The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz (1973), acquiring rights from all major record labels in order to produce the first truly comprehensive historical anthology.

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Track Listing:

 

Side 1

Scott Joplin - Maple Leaf Rag

Jelly Roll Morton - Maple Leaf Rag

Robert Johnson - Hellhound On My Trail

Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues, Lost Your Head Blues

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Dippermouth Blues

Jelly Roll Morton - Grandpa's Spells, Dead Man Blues

Side 2

Jelly Roll Morton - Black Bottom Stomp

Red Onion Jazz Babies - Cale Walking Babies

Sidney Bechet - Blue Horizon

James P. Johnson - Carolina Shout

Louis Armstrong - Struttin' With Some Barbeque

Louis Armstrong - S.O.L. Blues (excerpt), Potato Head Blues (excerpt)

Louis Armstrong -Hotter Than That, West End Blues

Side 3

Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines - Weather Bird

Louis Armstrong - Sweethearts On Parade

Louis Armstrong - I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues

Frankie Trumbauer - Riverboat Shuffle, Singin' The Blues

Fletcher Henderson - The Stampede, Wrappin' It Up

Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Moten Swing

Side 4

Fats Waller - Ain't Got Nobody

Meade "Lux" Lewis - Honky Tonk Train

Benny Goodman Trio - Body And Soul

Coleman Hawkins - Body And Soul

Billie Holiday - He's Funny That Way

Billie Holiday - All Of Me

Ella Fitzgerald - You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

Side 5

Art Tatum - Willow Weep For Me, Too Marvelous For Words

Jimmy Lunceford -Lunceford Special

Gene Krupa - Rockin' Chair

Roy Eldridge and Benny Carter - I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me (excerpt)

Lionel Hampton - When Lights Are Low

Count Basie - Doggin' Around

Count Basie - Taxi War Dance

Side 6

Count Basie's Kansas City Seven - Lester Leaps In

Benny Goodman Sextet - I Found A New Baby

With the Benny Goodman Sextet: Charlie Christian - Blues Sequence (from Breakfast Feud)

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - East St. Louis Toodle-Oo

Duke Ellington - New East St. Louis Toodle-Oo, Creole Rhapsody

Duke Ellington - Harlem Air Shaft, Concerto For Creole

Side 7

Duke Ellington - In a Mellotone, Ko-Ko, Blue Serge

Don Byas - I Got Rhythm

Dizzy Gillespie - I Can't Get Started

Dizzy Gillespie - Shaw 'Nuff

Charlie Parker - KoKo

Charlie Parker - Embraceable You, Embraceable You (alternate version)

Side 8

Charlie Parker - Klacktoveedsedsteen

Charlie Parker - Little Benny

Charlie Parker - Parker's Mood

Erroll Garner - Fantasy On "Frankie and Johnny"

Bud Powell - Somebody Loves Me

Sarah Vaughan - Dancing In The Dark, Ain't No Use

Lennie Tristano - Crosscurrent

Side 9

Miles Davis - Boplicity

Tadd Dameron's Sextet - Lady Bird

Dexter Gordon - Bikini

Thelonious Monk - Misterioso

Thelonious Monk - Criss Cross

Thelonious Monk - Evidence

Thelonious Monk - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Thelonious Monk - I Should Care

Side 10

Thelonious Monk - Blues Improvisation (excerpt from Bag's Groove by Miles Davis All Stars)

Miles Davis with Gil Evan's Orchestra - Summertime

Sonny Rollins - Blue 7

Modern Jazz Quartet - Django

Charlie Mingus - Hora Decubitus

Side 11

Sonny Rollins Plus Four - Pent-Up House

Cecil Taylor - Enter Evening

Miles Davis - So What

Side 12

Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman, Congeniality, Free Jazz (excerpt)

John Coltrane - Alabama

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* Records are thoroughly sight graded, not play graded.

* Prices and condition ratings are based on information in the Goldmine Record Album Price Guide, 4th Edition (2005) by Tim Neely.

Multiple album purchases: $4.00 for the first album and $0.65 for each additional.

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