Various Artists : Jazz Roots

CD [Cover Art for Various Artists / Jazz Roots] Your Price: $17.26
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Sell date: 4/2011
Label: Masterworks
Mfg's Catalog#: 785770
CDC Part#: 1558837
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 Notes & Reviews
 
Full title is: Jazz Roots: The Music of the Americas


The Jazz Roots series traces the African ancestry of blues, jazz, bossa nova, fusion and this set gathers the many fruits of those fertile seeds. Check it out: Original Jelly Roll Blues Jelly Roll Baker; Maple Leaf Rag Scott Joplin; Dippermouth Blues Louis Armstrong; Take the 'A' Train Duke Ellington; Black Coffee Sarah Vaughan; Ornithology Charlie Parker; Downhearted Blues Bessie Smith; Take Five Dave Brubeck Quartet; So What Miles Davis; Birdland Weather Report; Rockit Herbie Hancock, and more!

 
 Tracks and Sound Clips   
 
Akiwowo - Olatunji, Babatunde - 2:32 Play the Windows Media clip
Maple Leaf Rag - Joplin, Scott - 3:14 Play the Windows Media clip
Livery Stable Blues - Original Dixieland Jazz Band - 3:07 Play the Windows Media clip
West End Blues - Armstrong, Louis & His Hot Five - 3:16 Play the Windows Media clip
One O'Clock Jump - Basie, Count & His Orchestra - 3:05 Play the Windows Media clip
Take the "A" Train - Ellington, Duke - 2:56 Play the Windows Media clip
Sing, Sing, Sing - Goodman, Benny & His Orchestra - 3:52 Play the Windows Media clip
In the Mood - Miller, Glenn & The American Band of The Allied Expeditionary Fo - 3:33 Play the Windows Media clip
Downhearted Blues - Smith, Bessie - 3:27 Play the Windows Media clip
God Bless the Child - Holiday, Billie - 2:55 Play the Windows Media clip
Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week) - Sinatra, Frank - 2:45 Play the Windows Media clip
Taking a Chance on Love/I'm in the Mood for Love [Live] - Fitzgerald, Ella - 3:05 Play the Windows Media clip
Black Coffee - Vaughan, Sarah - 3:16 Play the Windows Media clip
Cloudburst - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - 2:15 Play the Windows Media clip
Muddy Water - Franklin, Aretha - 2:24 Play the Windows Media clip
Ornithology - Parker, Charlie [Sax] - 4:55 Play the Windows Media clip
Manteca - Gillespie, Dizzy & His Orchestra - 3:07 Play the Windows Media clip
Mambo Inn - Machito and His Afro-Cuban Orchestra - 3:29 Play the Windows Media clip
Ran Kan Kan - Puente, Tito & His Orchestra - 2:57 Play the Windows Media clip
Tu Conga Bach [Conga] - Tiempo Libre - 4:28 Play the Windows Media clip
Take Five - Brubeck, Dave Quartet - 5:24 Play the Windows Media clip
Two Bass Hit - Adderley, Cannonball - 5:12 Play the Windows Media clip
So What - Davis, Miles - 9:24 Play the Windows Media clip
Monk's Dream - Monk, Thelonious - 5:16 Play the Windows Media clip
Stone Flower - Jobim, Antonio Carlos - 3:20 Play the Windows Media clip
Doralice - Elias, Eliane - 2:59 Play the Windows Media clip
Sorceress - Return to Forever - 7:36 Play the Windows Media clip
Birdland - Weather Report - 5:59 Play the Windows Media clip
Funkin' for Jamaica - Browne, Tom - 4:39 Play the Windows Media clip
Rockit - Hancock, Herbie - 3:42 Play the Windows Media clip
Take Five [Live] - Benson, George [Guitar] - 5:42 Play the Windows Media clip
Strawberry Moon - Washington, Grover Jr. - 4:19 Play the Windows Media clip
Phryzzinian Man - Marsalis, Wynton - 6:46 Play the Windows Media clip
Songbird - G, Kenny - 3:55 Play the Windows Media clip
When I Fall in Love - Botti, Chris - 4:22 Play the Windows Media clip
Sweet Georgia Brown - Djangirov, Eldar - 3:19 Play the Windows Media clip

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