Various Artists - Ken Burns Jazz: Story American Music / Various

The 5 CD deluze set is the soundtrack to the PBS television series. A comprehensive overview of jazz, from ragtime to swing, and bebop to fusion with nearly 100 songs - among the best and most important jazz recordings ever made.

1) Star Dust - Louis Armstrong ; His Orchestra
2) Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' in My Room0 - Mississippi
3) Memphis Blues - Lieut. Jim Europe's 369th Infantry ("Hell Fighters") Band
4) Livery Stable Blues - the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
5) Charleston - James P. Johnson
6) Chimes Blues - King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
7) Back Water Blues - Bessie Smith
8) The Pearls - Jelly Roll Morton
9) Dead Man Blues - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
10) Wild Cat Blues - Clarence Williams's Blue Five
11) Cake Walkin' Babies (From Home) - Clarence Williams's Blue Five
12) Sugar Foot Stomp - Fletcher Henderson ; His Orchestra
13) Heebie Jeebies - Louis Armstrong ; His Hot Five
14) Potato Head Blues - Louis Armstrong ; His Hot Seven
15) West End Blues - Louis Armstrong ; His Hot Five
16) The Mooche - Duke Ellington ; His Orchestra
17) East St. Louis Toodle-Oo - Duke Ellington ; His Washingtonians
18) Black Beauty - Duke Ellington ; His Orchestra
19) Mood Indigo - the Jungle Band
20) There Ain't No Sweet Man (Worth the Salt of My Tears) - Paul Whiteman ; His Orchestra Featuring Bix Beiderbecke
21) Singin' the Blues - Frankie Trumbauer ; His Orchestra Featuring Bix Beiderbecke
22) Riverboat Shuffle - Frankie Trumbauer ; His Orchestra Featuring Bix Beiderbecke
23) Hotter Than 'Ell - Fletcher Henderson ; His Orchestra
24) I Got Rhythm - Ethel Waters
25) It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Duke Ellington ; His Orchestra
26) Echoes of Harlem - Duke Ellington ; His Orchestra
27) Moten Swing - Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
28) St. Louis Blues - Louis Armstrong ; His Orchestra
29) Ain't Misbehavin' - Louis Armstrong ; His Orchestra
30) For Dancers Only - Jimmie Lunceford ; His Orchestra
31) King Porter Stomp - Benny Goodman ; His Orchestra
32) Rose Room - the Benny Goodman Sextet
33) Sing Sing Sing (With a Swing) - Benny Goodman Sextet
34) Jumpin' at the Woodside - Count Basie ; His Orchestra
35) Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today - Count Basie ; His Orchestra
36) Lester Leaps in - Count Basie's Kansas City Seven
37) Oh Lady Be Good! - Jones-Smith Incorporated
38) Without Your Love - Billie Holiday ; Her Orchestra
39) Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
40) God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood ; His Orchestra
41) Three Little Words - Art Tatum
42) Rebecca - Pete Johnson ; "Big" Joe Turner
43) Harlem Congo - Chick Webb ; His Orchestra
44) A-Tisket A-Tasket - Chick Webb ; His Orchestra Featuring Ella Fitzgerald
45) Shine - Django Reinhardt ; Le Quartet Du Hot Club de France
46) Dear Old Southland - Noble Sissle ; His Orchestra
47) Body and Soul - Coleman Hawkins
48) Cotton Tail - Duke Ellington ; His Orchestra
49) Take the 'A' Train - Duke Ellington ; His Orchestra
50) Begin the Beguine - Artie Shaw ; His Orchestra
51) In the Mood - Glenn Miller ; His Orchestra
52) Well Git It! - Tommy Dorsey ; His Orchestra
53) Solitude - Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood ; His Orchestra
54) Drum Boogie - Gene Krupa ; His Orchestra
55) Salt Peanuts - Dizzy Gillespie ; His All Star Quintet
56) Groovin' High - Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
57) Ko-Ko - Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers
58) Scrapple from the Apple - Charlie Parker Quintet
59) Enbraceable You - Charlie Parker Quintet
60) Get Happy - Bud Powell Trio
61) Epistrophy - Thelonious Monk
62) Straight No Chaser - Thelonious Monk
63) Manteca - Dizzy Gillespie ; His Orchestra
64) Moon Dreams - Miles Davis Nonet
65) Just Friends - Charlie Parker
66) Rockin' Chair - Louis Armstrong
67) They Can't Take That Away from Me - Sarah Vaughan ; Her Trio
68) Walkin' Shoes - Chet Baker ; Gerry Mulligan
69) Fine and Mellow - Billie Holiday
70) Doodlin' - Horace Silver ; The Jazz Messengers
71) I Get a Kick Out of You - Clifford Brown ; Max Roach
72) St. Thomas - Sonny Rollins
73) Django - the Modern Jazz Quartet
74) Take Five - the Dave Brubeck Quartet
75) So What - Miles Davis Sextet
76) Giant Steps - John Coltrane
77) Rick Kick Shaw - Cecil Taylor Trio
78) Chronology - Ornette Coleman
79) Original Faubus Fables - Charles Mingus
80) Acknowledgment - John Coltrane Quartet
81) Hello Dolly! - Louis Armstrong
82) Desafinado - Stan Getz ; Charlie Byrd
83) In a Sentimental Mood - Duke Ellington ; John Coltrane
84) Tourist Point of View - Duke Ellington ; His Orchestra
85) E.S.P. - the Miles Davis Quintet
86) Spanish Key (Single Version) - Miles Davis
87) Birdland - Weather Report
88) Mister Magic - Grover Washington JR
89) Rockit - Herbie Hancock
90) Un Ange en Danger - M.C. Solaar ; Ron Carter
91) Tanya - Dexter Gordon
92) Soon All Will Know - Wynton Marsalis
93) Death Letter - Cassandra Wilson
94) Take the "A" Train - the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra