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The Best of Ken Burns Jazz | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 3418
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 61439
UPC: 746461439262
EAN: 0074646143926
ASIN: B000050HVJ
Release Date: November 7, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Star Dust - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra | | • | Dead man Blues - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers | | • | Dear Old Southland - Noble Sissle & His Orchestra featuring Sidney Bechet | | • | Singin' the Blues - Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke | | • | St. Louis Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra | | • | The Mooche - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra | | • | Hotter Than 'Ell - Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra | | • | King Porter Stomp - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra | | • | Begin the Beguine - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra | | • | Cotton Tail - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra | | • | Jumpin' at the Woodside - Count Basie & His Orchestra | | • | Solitude - Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood & His Orchestra | | • | Groovin' High - Dizzy Gillespie featuring Charlie Parker | | • | Straight, No Chaser - Thelonious Monk | | • | They Can't Take That Away From Me - Sarah Vaughan & Her Trio | | • | Take Five - The Dave Brubeck Quartet | | • | Doodlin' - Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers | | • | Giant Steps - John Coltrane Quartet | | • | So What - Miles Davis Sextet | | • | Take The "A" Train - The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra |
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Amazon.com
Ken Burns, America's premier documentary filmmaker, scores another hit with his landmark 10-part, 19-hour PBS documentary, Jazz. This sampler is a smaller version of the accompanying five-CD box set, with 22 selections spanning the music's many styles: from Benny Goodman's 1938 classic rendition of "King Porter Stomp" to John Coltrane's immortal "Giant Steps." Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan form a sweeping spectrum of jazz singing with their varying styles. Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker's "Groovin' High," Thelonious Monk's riff blues "'Straight, No Chaser," and Miles Davis's modal masterpiece "So What" are among the music's "greatest hits" compiled here. Louis Armstrong's down-home treatment of Hoagy Carmichael's "Star Dust" and Duke Ellington's rousing "Cotton Tail" show why they are the alpha and the omega of this music. Although the documentary and the sampler omit the avant-garde and Latin jazz, this is, overall, good one-stop shopping for those just getting in the groove. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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 Essential for any jazz lover or Ken Burns JAZZ series collector! June 14, 2008
Don't feel like buying every single artist in the 'Ken Burns JAZZ' series? Well, now there's a solution. 'The Best of Ken Burns JAZZ' offers all of the highlights from the discs you can buy in the series on one CD!
All of the jazz giants are here. Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and Dizzy Gillespie are all on this disc. These artists all had discs in Burns' series.
Another pleasant treat? The inclusion of artists that were not in the series! Jelly Roll Morton, The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and several others that did not get the Ken Burns "royal treatment" are getting it now on this specially priced compilation.
Overall, if you want a quick look at Ken Burns' series at a great price, than do buy 'The Best of Ken Burns JAZZ.' You won't be disappointed. You'll get a lot of bang for your buck.
Highly recommended for any jazz or 'Ken Burns JAZZ' series collector. You won't regret this purchase. ENJOY!!!
Fabulous Compilation May 23, 2007
This a great CD to own if one hasn't listen to jazz before. I do not own many jazz CDs, but I greatly enjoy listening to this one. I would recommend this CD to anyone that wants to listen to something upbeat. The CD is great to listen to during a bbq, dinner, other family events, etc. Ken Burns provides the best jazz music in this compilation.
Gift February 17, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this as a gift for my son. It will be my last purchase at Amazon as long as they promote products that encourage animal fighting.
 Good overview for a novice August 12, 2005
I'm a complete novice to Jazz. Hence this purchase. It serves its purpose of providing a good introduction, and has informed my further exploration of this music. I much prefer the more recent work such as from Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane. But the sound quality on all tracks is good.
A Great Jazz Overview May 6, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have had an interest in jazz for a long time but I was always looking for a good introduction to this most American of music. I continued to have questions as to how jazz evolved and even though I knew the names of many of the great jazz musicians, such as Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, my listening was limited to Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. Finding this CD helped me to explore jazz in much more depth. The Best of Ken Burns Jazz is an offshoot of his documentary film and the series of recordings issued as part of the film. So, this is a personal selection of music, chosen with a lot of difficulty, to provide an overview. For me, I was allowed to explore a lot of different music and then explore more fully the selections I was most interested in, some in the Ken Burns series and some that were not.
This CD follows the development of jazz from the New Orleans style developed by Louis Armstrong to the great instrumentalists (like Bix Beiderbecke), the great vocalists (like Billie Holiday), big bands (Benny Goodman) and the innovators (John Coltrane and Miles Davis). The CD contains the signature pieces by the musicians represented and allows the listener to reflect on the origins and changes that jazz made through the years. The great names of jazz are represented: Count Bassie, Artie Shaw, Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck and more. The recordings have been nicely remastered but, of course, since many are mono recordings (the oldest from 1927 was made about a year after the invention of the microphone) the sound quality will not match the digital technology of today. The ear does adjust to the sound and I am more interested in the music than complaining that it is not sonically perfect.
The booklet notes by Ken Burns makes interesting reading. He traces jazz, recording by recording, providing insight into the personalities, the importance and how it fits into the overall evolution of this unique musical form. The booklet is also nicely illustrated and each track is fully identified with a reference to the original album. If you are looking for a good overview of jazz, this CD is what you are looking for.
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