Big Band Jazz (The Absolutely Essential)

Tracks:

1 In the Mood
The Glenn Miller Orchestra
2 One O'Clock Jump
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3 In My Arms a Little Longer
Louis Armstrong
4 Take the 'A' Train
Duke Ellington
5 I Can't Get Started
Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra
6 San
Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
7 American Patrol
The Glenn Miller Orchestra
8 All or Nothing At All
Harry James
9 Snowfall
Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra
10 Minnie the Moocher
Cab Calloway & His Cotton Club Orchestra
11 Swing It
Benny Carter
12 Toby
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
13 Darktown Strutters' Ball
Chick Webb & His Orchestra
14 My Blue Heaven
Jimmie Lunceford
15 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
Tommy Dorsey
16 Chant of the Weed
Don Redman & His Orchestra
17 Christopher Columbus
Fletcher Henderson
18 Boyd's Nest
Boyd Raeburn & His Orchestra
19 Let Me Off Uptown
Gene Krupa
20 Meet the Band
Edgar Hayes & His Orchestra

Disc 2
1 It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Duke Ellington
2 My Reverie
Larry Clinton & His Orchestra
3 The Elks Parade
Bobby Sherwood & His Orchestra
4 The Sheik of Araby
Fats Waller
5 Cherokee
Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra
6 Stormy Monday Blues
Billy Eckstine / Earl Hines & His Orchestra
7 Tuxedo Junction
Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra
8 The Big Noise From Winnetka
Bob Crosby & the Bob Cat Orchestra
9 Flying Home
Lionel Hampton
10 Froggy Bottom
Andy Kirk
11 Do You Know Why?
Tommy Dorsey Orchestra / Frank Sinatra
12 Kitty On Toast
Horace Henderson & His Orchestra
13 In the Middle
Georgie Auld & His Orchestra
14 Traffic Jam
Artie Shaw
15 Deep Forest
Earl Hines & His Orchestra
16 Bounce Me, Brother, With a Solid Four
Will Bradley & His Orchestra
17 Lonely Boy Blues
Jay McShann
18 The Honeydripper
Cab Calloway & His Cotton Club Orchestra
19 Four Brothers
Woody Herman & His Orchestra
20 Artistry In Rhythm
Stan Kenton

Disc 3
1 Besame Mucho
Jimmy Dorsey
2 I Didn't Know About You
Lena Horne
3 Jumpin' At the Woodside
Count Basie
4 Oh Yes, Take Another Guess
Ella Fitzgerald / Benny Goodman Orchestra
5 The Good Earth
Woody Herman & His Orchestra
6 Stompin' At the Savoy
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
7 A-Tisket A-Tasket
Chick Webb & His Orchestra
8 At the Woodchopper's Ball
Woody Herman & His Orchestra
9 Things To Come
Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
10 White Jazz
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra
11 Father Knickerbopper
Ted Heath
12 No Variety Blues
Louis Armstrong
13 All of Me
Billy May & His Orchestra
14 Any Old Time
Artie Shaw
15 Bum's Rush
Gigi Gryce
16 Jazznocracy
Jimmie Lunceford
17 Sentimental Journey
Les Brown
18 Brazil
Xavier Cugat
19 Why Don't You Do Right
Peggy Lee / Benny Goodman Orchestra
20 Put It There
McKinney's Cotton Pickers