Ken Burns Jazz Documentary Music Tracklist

Summary

This list gives the music selections from the Ken Burns Jazz documentary, arranged by disc. It covers early jazz and blues, the swing era, big band and bebop, and later modern jazz. A student can use it to find key recordings by artists such as Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis.

Key points

Disc 1 starts with early jazz and blues, such as 'West End Blues' by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five.
The swing era includes Benny Goodman's 'Sing, Sing, Sing' and Count Basie's 'Jumpin' at the Woodside'.
Big band and bebop selections include Glenn Miller's 'In the Mood' and Charlie Parker's 'Ko-ko'.
Later jazz includes Miles Davis's 'So What' and John Coltrane's 'Giant Steps', both listed on Disc 4 or its revisited selections.
Billie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit' appears in the Disc 2 (Revisited) selections.

Test yourself

Ken Burns Jazz Documentary Music Selections

Test 1: Early Jazz and Blues Selections

Ken Burns Disk 1 Selections

3 - "Memphis Blues" - **Lied** Jim Europe's 369th Infantry "Hell Fighters" Band, Military Music
4 - "Liverly Stable Blues" - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
5 - "Charleston" - James P. Johnson, Dance Music
6 - "Chimes Blues" - King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
7 - "Black Water Blues" - Bessie Smith
9 - "Dead Man Blues" - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
13 - "Heebie Jeebies" - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
15 - "West End Blues" - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
21 - "Singin' the Blues" - Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra (Featuring Bix Beiderbecke)
24 - "I Got Rhythm" - Ethel Waters

Test 2: Swing Era Selections

Ken Burns Disc 1 (Continued)

12 - "Sugar Foot Stomp" - Fletcher Henderson
17 - "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" - Duke Ellington and His Washingtonians
19 - "Mood Indigo" - The Jungle Band (Duke Ellington)
20 - "There Ain't No Sweet Man" - Paul Whiteman

Ken Burns Disc 2 Selections

3 - "Molten Swing" - Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
7 - "King Porter Stomp" - Benny Goodman
8 - "Rose Room" - Benny Goodman Sextet
9 - "Sing, Sing, Sing" - Benny Goodman
10 - "Jumpin' at the Woodside" - Count Basie
12 - "Lester Leaps In" - Count Basie's Kansas City Seven (with Lester Young)
19 - "Harlem Congo" - Chick Webb

Test 3: Big Band and Bebop

Ken Burns Disc 3 Selections

1 - "Body and Soul" - Coleman Hawkins
5 - "In the Mood" - Glenn Miller
6 - "Well, Git It!" - Tommy Dorsey

Ken Burns Disc 3 (Continued)

3 - "Take the 'A' Train" - Duke Ellington
9 - "Salt Peanuts" - Dizzy Gillespie
10 - "Groovin' High" - Dizzy Gillespie
11 - "Ko-ko" - Charlie Parker
13 - "Embraceable You" - Charlie Parker
16 - "Straight, No Chaser" - Thelonious Monk

Ken Burns Disc 4 Selections

1 - "Doodlin'" - Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
3 - "St. Thomas" - Sonny Rollins
4 - "Django" - The Modern Jazz Quartet
6 - "So What" - Miles Davis Sextet

Test 4: Final Exam Selections

Ken Burns Disc 2 (Revisited)

15 - "Strange Fruit" - Billie Holiday
20 - "A-Tisket A-Tasket" - Chick Webb with Ella Fitzgerald

Ken Burns Disc 4 (Revisited)

5 - "Take Five" - The Dave Brubeck Quartet
7 - "Giant Steps" - John Coltrane
9 - "Chronology" - Ornette Coleman
10 - "Original Faubus Fables" - Charles Mingus
11 - "Acknowledgement (from A Love Supreme)" - John Coltrane

Ken Burns Disc 5 Selections

2 - "Desafinado" - Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd
6 - "Spanish Key" - Miles Davis
7 - "Birdland" - Weather Report
9 - "Rockit" - Herbie Hancock