Black legends of jazz.

Format Audio (Streaming)
Publication InfoNew York, NY : MCA Records : GRP Records, ℗©1994.
Description1 online resource (119 min.).
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?JAZZ;683388
Subjects

Other author/creatorAllen, Henry, 1908-1967.
Other author/creatorAmmons, Gene.
Other author/creatorArmstrong, Louis, 1901-1971.
Other author/creatorBasie, Count, 1904-1984.
Other author/creatorBechet, Sidney, 1897-1959.
Other author/creatorCarter, Benny.
Other author/creatorClayton, Buck, 1911-1991.
Other author/creatorCole, Nat King, 1919-1965.
Other author/creatorDodds, Johnny, 1892-1940.
Other author/creatorEldridge, Roy, 1911-1989.
Other author/creatorEllington, Duke, 1899-1974.
Other author/creatorFitzgerald, Ella.
Other author/creatorHampton, Lionel.
Other author/creatorHawkins, Coleman.
Other author/creatorHenderson, Fletcher, 1897-1952.
Other author/creatorHines, Earl, 1903-1983.
Other author/creatorHoliday, Billie, 1915-1959.
Other author/creatorJacquet, Illinois.
Other author/creatorJohnson, Bunk, 1879-1949.
Other author/creatorJohnson, James P. (James Price), 1894-1955.
Other author/creatorLewis, Meade, 1905-1964.
Other author/creatorLunceford, Jimmie.
Other author/creatorMcRae, Carmen.
Other author/creatorMcShann, Jay.
Other author/creatorMorton, Jelly Roll, 1890-1941.
Other author/creatorNoone, Jimmie, 1895-1944.
Other author/creatorOliver, King, 1885-1938.
Other author/creatorOliver, Sy.
Other author/creatorPage, Hot Lips, 1908-1954.
Other author/creatorParker, Charlie, 1920-1955.
Other author/creatorRedman, Don.
Other author/creatorRushing, Jimmy.
Other author/creatorSmith, Willie, 1897-1973.
Other author/creatorStrayhorn, Billy.
Other author/creatorTatum, Art, 1909-1956.
Other author/creatorTurner, Joe, 1911-1985.
Other author/creatorWashington, Dinah, 1924-1963.
Other author/creatorWebb, Chick.
Other author/creatorWilliams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981.
Other author/creatorYoung, Lester, 1909-1959.
Other author/creatorGRP Records.
Other author/creatorMCA Records, Inc.
SeriesDecca jazz
GRP presents the legendary masters of jazz
Decca jazz. ^A1046815
GRP presents the legendary masters of jazz. ^A303518
Contents Disc 1: Somewhere along the way (Gene Ammons) (2:57) -- Mahogany Hall stomp (2:50) ; Solitude (2:59) (Louis Armstrong) -- Jumpin' at the Woodside (Count Basie) (3: 08) -- When the sun sets down south (Sidney Bechet) (3: 05) -- Night hop (Benny Carter) (3:04) -- Blues in the dark (Buck Clayton) (3:02) -- Sweet Lorraine (Nat King Cole) (2:58) -- Melancholy (Johnny Dodds) (2:35) -- After you've gone (Roy Eldridge) (2:46) -- Mood indigo (Duke Ellington) (2:54) -- Lullaby of Birdland (Ella Fitzgerald) (2:49) -- Midnight sun (Lionel Hampton) (3:18) -- Body and soul (Coleman Hawkins) (4: 22) -- Down south camp meetin' (Fletcher Henderson & Henry "Red" Allen) (2:56) -- Cavernism (Earl Hines) (2 :54) -- Good morning heartache (Billie Holiday) (3:06) -- Flying home (Illinois Jacquet) (3:10) -- Tishomingo blues (Bunk Johnson) (3:18) -- Snowy morning blues (James P. Johnson) (2:30).
Contents Disc 2: Yancey special (Meade Lux Lewis) (3:16) -- Coquette (Jimmie Lunceford) (3:08) -- Something to live for (Carmen McRae) (3:11) -- Sepian bounce (Jay McShann & Charlie Parker) (3:06) -- King Porter stomp (Jelly Roll Morton) (2:50) -- Bump it (Jimmie Noone) (3:19) -- Sugar foot stomp (King Oliver) (2:53) -- For dancers only (Sy Oliver) (2:37) -- I won't be here long (Hot Lips Page) (2:40) -- Chant of the weed (Don Redman) (3:14) -- Good morning blues (Jimmy Rushing) (3:12) -- Passionette (Willie "The Lion" Smith) (2:26) -- Blue serge (Billy Strayhorn) (2:51) - - Liza : all the clouds'll roll away (Art Tatum) (3:02) -- Rebecca (Joe Turner) (2:40) -- Blow top blues (Dinah Washington) (3:18) -- Clap hands! Here comes Charlie (Chick Webb) (2:27) -- Keep it in the groove (Mary Lou Williams) (2:59) -- One o'clock jump (Lester Young) (3:01).
General note"The original Decca recordings"--booklet cover.
General noteBooklet contains program notes by Robert O'Meally and discography.
Performer Various performers.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded between Apr. 1926 and Mar. 1959.

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