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1-01	Scott Joplin -	Maple Leaf Rag	3:19
1-02	Jelly Roll Morton -	Maple Leaf Rag	2:40
1-03	Bessie Smith -	St. Louis Blues	3:05
1-04	Bessie Smith -	Lost Your Head Blues	2:54
1-05	King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band -	Dippermouth Blues	2:32
1-06	Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers -	Black Bottom Stomp	3:09
1-07	Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers -	Dead Man Blues	2:54
1-08	Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers -	Grandpa's Spells	2:52
1-09	Jelly Roll Morton -	King Porter Stomp	2:52
1-10	Red Onion Jazz Babies, The -	Cake Walking Babies From Home	3:05
1-11	Sidney Bechet And His Blue Note Jazz Men -	Blue Horizon	4:19
1-12	James Price Johnson -	Carolina Shout	2:39
1-13	Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five -	Big Butter And Egg Man From The West	2:57
1-14	Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven -	Potato Head Blues	2:58
1-15	Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five -	Struttin' With Some Barbecue	2:59
1-16	Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five -	Hotter Than That	2:59
1-17	Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five -	West End Blues	3:15
1-18	Louis Armstrong And Earl Hines -	Weather Bird	2:41
1-19	Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra -	Sweethearts On Parade	3:13
1-20	Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra -	I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues	2:52
1-21	Frankie Trumbauer And His Orchestra -	Singin' The Blues	2:58
1-22	Frankie Trumbauer And His Orchestra -	Riverboat Shuffle	3:07
1-23	Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra -	Four Or Five Times	3:14
2-01	Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra -	The Stampede	3:13
2-02	Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra -	Wrappin' It Up	2:41
2-03	Red Nichols And His Five Pennies -	Dinah	3:12
2-04	Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra -	Moten Swing	3:19
2-05	Fats Waller -	I Ain't Got Nobody	3:06
2-06	Meade "Lux" Lewis -	Honky Tonk Train Blues	2:57
2-07	Benny Goodman Trio -	Body And Soul	3:27
2-08	Coleman Hawkins And His Orchestra -	Body And Soul	2:59
2-09	Coleman Hawkins Quartet -	The Man I Love	5:04
2-10	Billie Holiday And Her Orchestra -	He's Funny That Way	2:38
2-11	Billie Holiday And Her Orchestra -	These Foolish Things	3:35
2-12	Ella Fitzgerald -	You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To	2:44
2-13	Art Tatum -	Willow Weep For Me	2:53
2-14	Art Tatum -	Too Marvelous For Words	2:21
2-15	Jimmie Lunceford And His Orchestra -	Organ Grinder's Swing	2:36
2-16	Gene Krupa And His Orchestra -	Rockin' Chair	3:11
2-17	Chocolate Dandies, The -	I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me (Excerpt)	2:59
		Featuring - Benny Carter , Roy Eldridge
2-18	Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra -	When Lights Are Low	2:11
2-19	Quintette Du Hot Club De France -	Dinah	2:32
2-20	Count Basie Orchestra -	Doggin' Around	2:57
2-21	Count Basie Orchestra -	Taxi War Dance	2:47
2-22	Count Basie And The Kansas City Seven -	Lester Leaps In	3:12
2-23	Benny Goodman Sextet -	I Found A New Baby	2:53
		Featuring - Charlie Christian , Count Basie
2-24	Benny Goodman Sextet -	Breakfast Feud (Composite)	2:18
		Featuring - Charlie Christian
3-01	Duke Ellington And His Orchestra -	East St. Louis Toddle-Oo	3:35
3-02	Duke Ellington And His Orchestra -	The New East St. Louis Toodle-O	2:56
3-03	Duke Ellington And His Orchestra -	Diminuendo In Blue / Crescendo In Blue	5:56
3-04	Duke Ellington And His Orchestra -	Ko-Ko	2:40
3-05	Duke Ellington And His Orchestra -	Concerto For Cootie	3:17
3-06	Duke Ellington And His Orchestra -	Cotton Tail	3:08
3-07	Duke Ellington And His Orchestra -	In A Mellotone	3:15
3-08	Duke Ellington And His Orchestra -	Blue Serge	3:19
3-09	Don Byas And Slam Stewart -	I Got Rhythm	4:54
3-10	Dizzy Gillespie Sextet -	I Can't Get Started	3:03
3-11	Dizzy Gillespie All Star Quintette, The -	Shaw 'Nuff	2:55
3-12	Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers -	Koko	2:51
3-13	Charlie Parker With Jazz At The Philharmonic -	Lady, Be Good	3:02
3-14	Charlie Parker Quintet, The -	Embraceable You (Take #1, Excerpt)	2:06
3-15	Charlie Parker Quintet, The -	Embraceable You (Take #2, Excerpt)	1:53
3-16	Charlie Parker Quintet, The -	Klactoveedsedstene	3:00
3-17	Charlie Parker Sextet, The -	Crazeology (Take #1)	1:01
3-18	Charlie Parker Sextet, The -	Crazeology (Take #4)	2:55
3-19	Charlie Parker All-Stars, The -	Parker's Mood	3:00
3-20	Erroll Garner -	Fantasy On Frankie And Johnny	2:53
3-21	Bud Powell Trio, The -	A Night In Tunisia	4:13
3-22	Dexter Gordon Quartet, The -	Bikini	3:34
3-23	Tadd Dameron Sextet, The -	Lady Bird	2:47
4-01	Miles Davis And His Orchestra -	Boplicity	2:57
4-02	Lennie Tristano Quintet, The -	Subconscious Lee	2:44
4-03	Gene Norman's "Just Jazz" -	Body And Soul (Excerpt)	3:35
		Featuring - Red Norvo , Stan Getz
4-04	Sarah Vaughan -	All Alone	2:19
4-05	Sarah Vaughan -	My Funny Valentine	5:48
4-06	Thelonious Monk Quartet, The -	Misterioso	3:18
4-07	Thelonious Monk Quartet, The -	Evidence	2:30
4-08	Thelonious Monk Quintet, The -	Criss-Cross	2:54
4-09	Thelonious Monk -	Bag's Groove (Solo)	2:48
4-10	Thelonious Monk -	I Should Care	3:11
4-11	Horace Silver Quintet, The -	Moon Rays	10:48
4-12	Miles Davis With Gil Evans And His Orchestra -	Summertime	3:16
4-13	Charles Mingus Quintet, The -	Haitian Fight Song	11:51
4-14	Modern Jazz Quartet, The -	Django	5:22
4-15	Sonny Rollins Plus Four -	Pent-Up House	8:52
5-01	Sonny Rollins Quartet, The* -	Blue 7	11:08
5-02	Wes Montgomery Quartet, The -	West Coast Blues (Abridged)	5:30
5-03	Miles Davis Sextet, The -	So What	8:51
5-04	Bill Evans Trio, The -	Blue In Green	5:20
5-05	Cecil Taylor Unit, The -	Enter Evening	10:57
5-06	John Coltrane Quartet, The -	Alabama	5:09
5-07	Ornette Coleman Quartet, The -	Lonely Woman	4:54
5-08	Ornette Coleman Quartet, The -	Congeniality	6:41
5-09	Ornette Coleman Double Quartet, The -	Free Jazz (Excerpt)	10:03
5-10	World Saxophone Quartet -	Steppin'	7:13

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