The Best of Ken Burns Jazz

This compilation of 20 songs from the ten-part documentary series "Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns" is a sampling of some of the most important jazz tunes ever recorded. Contents include: Star Dust (Louis Armstrong); Dead Man Blues (Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers); Dear Old Southland (Noble Sissle); Singin' the Blues (Frankie Trumbauer); St. Louis Blues (Louis Armstrong); The Mooche (Duke Ellington); Hotter Than 'Ell (Fletcher Henderson); King Porter Stomp (Benny Goodman); Begin the Beguine (Artie Shaw); Cotton Tail (Duke Ellington); Jumpin' at the Woodside (Count Basie); Solitude (Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood); Groovin' High (Dizzy Gillespie Sextet); Straight, No Chaser (Thelonious Monk); They Can't Take That Away from Me (Sarah Vaughan); Take Five (Dave Brubeck Quartet); Doodlin' (Horace Silver the Jazz Messengers); Giant Steps (John Coltrane Quartet); So What (Miles Davis) and Take The "A" Train (Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.)