Big Band Jazz: The Absolutely Essential 3CD Collection

Tracklisting

Disc 1

Side 1

• 1. Glenn Miller - In The Mood
• 2. Count Basie - One O'Clock Jump
• 3. Louis Armstrong - Linger In My Arms A Little Longer
• 4. Duke Ellington - Take The 'A' Train
• 5. Bunny Berigan And His Orchestra - I Can't Get Started
• 6. Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra - San
• 7. Glenn Miller - American Patrol
• 8. Harry James - All Or Nothing At All
• 9. Claude Thornhill And His Orchestra - Snowfall
• 10. Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher
• 11. Benny Carter - Swing It
• 12. Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Toby
• 13. Chick Webb And His Orchestra - Darktown Strutters' Ball
• 14. Jimmie Lunceford - My Blue Heaven
• 15. Tommy Dorsey - I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
• 16. Don Redman And His Orchestra - Chant Of The Weed
• 17. Fletcher Henderson - Christopher Columbus
• 18. Boyd Raeburn And His Orchestra - Boyd's Nest
• 19. Gene Krupa - Let Me Off Uptown
• 20. Edgar Hayes And His Orchestra - Meet The Band

Disc 2

• 1. Duke Ellington - It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
• 2. Larry Clinton And His Orchestra - My Reverie
• 3. Bobby Sherwood And His Orchestra - The Elks Parade
• 4. Fats Waller - The Sheik Of Araby
• 5. Charlie Barnet And His Orchestra - Cherokee
• 6. Billy Eckstine - Stormy Monday Blues
• 7. Erskine Hawkins And His Orchestra - Tuxedo Junction
• 8. Bob Crosby And His Orchestra And His Bob Cats - The Big Noise From Winnetka
• 9. Lionel Hampton - Flying Home
• 10. Andy Kirk - Froggy Bottom
• 11. Frank Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - Do You Know Why?
• 12. Horace Henderson And His Orchestra - Kitty On Toast
• 13. Georgie Auld And His Orchestra - In The Middle
• 14. Artie Shaw - Traffic Jam
• 15. Earl Hines And His Orchestra - Deep Forest
• 16. Will Bradley And His Orchestra - Bounce Me,Brother,With A Solid Four
• 17. Jay McShann - Lonely Boy Blues
• 18. Cab Calloway - The Honeydripper
• 19. Don Lamond (Woody Herman & His Orchestra) - Four Brothers
• 20. Stan Kenton - Artistry In Rhythm

Disc 3

• 1. Jimmy Dorsey - Besame Mucho
• 2. Lena Horne - I Didn't Know About You
• 3. Count Basie - Jumpin' At The Woodside
• 4. Ella Fitzgerald with the Benny Goodman Orchestra - Oh Yes, Take Another Glass
• 5. Dave Tough (Woody Herman & His Orchestra) - The Good Earth
• 6. Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Stompin' At The Savoy
• 7. Chick Webb And His Orchestra - A Tisket, A Tasket
• 8. Woody Herman - At The Woodchopper's Ball
• 9. Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra - Things To Come
• 10. Glen Gray And His Casa Loma Orchestra - White Jazz
• 11. Ted Heath - Father Knickerbopper
• 12. Louis Armstrong - No Variety Blues
• 13. Billy May & His Orchestra - All Of Me
• 14. Artie Shaw - Any Old Time
• 15. Gigi Gryce And His Orchestra - Bum's Rush
• 16. Jimmie Lunceford And His Orchestra - Jazznocracy
• 17. Les Brown - Sentimental Journey
• 18. Xavier Cugat - Brazil
• 19. Peggy Lee - Why Don't You Do Right
• 20. Cuba Austin (Mckinney's Cotton Pickers) - Put It There