Ken Burns Jazz Documentary Music Tracklist

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