Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology (6-CD)

Record Collector (magazine): 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The collection] chronologically delineates the evolution of the genre, encompassing all its significant watershed moments and including its most potent and pivotal pieces."

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CD Details

Number of Discs: 6
Released: March 29, 2011
Originally Released: 2011
Label: Smithsonian Folkways

Entertainment Reviews:

Billboard (p.28) - "[T]he six-CD, 111-song set provides a dissection of mostly great works with technical, historical and musical details."

Record Collector (magazine) - p.101

4 stars out of 5 -- "[The collection] chronologically delineates the evolution of the genre, encompassing all its significant watershed moments and including its most potent and pivotal pieces."

Tracks on Disc 1:

1.Maple Leaf Rag - Dick Hyman
2.In Gloryland
3.Livery Stable Blues
4.Dipper Mouth Blues - King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
5.The Stampede
6.Black Bottom Stomp
7.Singin' the Blues (Till My Daddy Comes Home)
8.Back Water Blues - Bessie Smith
9.Black and Tan Fantasy
10.From Monday On - Bix Beiderbecke
11.West End Blues
12.Weather Bird - Earl Hines
13.That's a Serious Thing - Eddie Condon
14.Handful of Riffs - Lonnie Johnson
15.You've Got to be Modernistic
16.Moten Swing
17.Everybody Loves My Baby
18.Maple Leaf Rag
19.Dinah
20.Swing That Music
21.Honky Tonk Train Blues - Meade "Lux" Lewis
22.Mean to Me - Billie Holiday
23.For Dancers Only
24.One O'Clock Jump
25.Harlem Congo

Tracks on Disc 2:

1.Minor Swing
2.Mary's Idea - Mary Lou Williams
3.When Lights are Low
4.Body and Soul
5.Honeysuckle Rose
6.Tiger Rag - Art Tatum
7.Ko-Ko - Duke Ellington's Famous Orchestra
8.Hard Times (Topsy Turvy)
9.I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me - The Chocolate Dandies
10.Stardust
11.Let Me Off Uptown
12.Shaw 'Nuff
13.Manteca
14.Virgo from the Zodiac Suite
15.Dexter Rides Again - Dexter Gordon
16.I Want to be Happy - Buddy Rich Trio / Lester Young-Buddy Rich Trio / Lester Young
17.Indiana
18.Embraceable You
19.Four Brothers
20.Misterioso
21.Lady Bird
22.Tanga
23.September in the Rain
24.Wow - Lennie Tristano Sextet

Tracks on Disc 3:

1.Boplicity
2.The Golden Bullet
3.Popo
4.Walkin' Shoes - Chet Baker / Gerry Mulligan Quartet
5.23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West
6.Daahoud - Max Roach Quintet
7.Django
8.Preacher, The - Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
9.I'll Remember April
10.Jonaleh
11.Tricrotism - Lucky Thompson Trio / Lucky Thompson
12.St. Thomas
13.Call for All Demons
14.When I Grow Too Old to Dream - Nat King Cole & His Trio
15.Stompin' at the Savoy - Louis Armstrong
16.Blues in the Closet - Stan Getz
17.Ol' Man River
18.Summertime

Tracks on Disc 4:

1.Moanin'
2.Meet B. B.
3.So What
4.Giant Steps
5.Better Git It in Your Soul
6.Blue Rondo ... la Turk
7.Ramblin'
8.Work Song
9.Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
10.My Favorite Things, Part 1 [Single Version]
11.Waltz for Debby
12.'Round Midnight
13.Cotton Tail - Ella Fitzgerald / Duke Ellington Orchestra

Tracks on Disc 5:

1.One by One
2.Girl from Ipanema, The - Astrud Gilberto
3.A Love Supreme, Pt. 1: Acknowledgement
4.E.S.P.
5.Haig & Haig - Clark Terry / Bob Brookmeyer Quintet / Bob Brookmeyer
6.King of the Road - Wes Montgomery
7.Isfahan
8.The New National Anthem
9.Matrix
10.Miles Runs the Voodoo Down
11.Celestial Terrestrial Commuters
12.Watermelon Man
13.Long Yellow Road - Toshiko Akiyoshi
14.Jitney No. 2
15.Bright Size Life

Tracks on Disc 6:

1.Maple Leaf Rag - Muhal Richard Abrams / Anthony Braxton
2.Birdland
3.My Song
4.Iya
5.Bush Magic
6.Steppin'
7.Glide Was in the Ride, The - Steve Coleman Group
8.Manenberg (Revisited)
9.Nothing Personal
10.Airegin
11.Down the Avenue
12.Ting Ning
13.Kilayim
14.Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho
15.Neutralisme - Johnny Griffin / Martial Solal
16.Suspended Night Variation VIII