Various Artists - The Golden Age Of Jazz: The Greatest Original Artists Play 96 Of The Greatest Original Recordings

Jazz music is now a century old and any of the turbulent periods through which the art-form has passed could be accurately justified as having been a 'Golden Age'. The music's incubation in New Orleans, its travel up to Chicago, the Swing era, the Be-bop revolution, the 'Birth of the Cool' and the arrival of the abstract improvisers all occurred within the relatively brief time frame of sixty or so years, each successive style having its ardent believers and its cynical detractors. Few eras were as rich in diverse talent as the period covered in this four-disc retrospective. This was the age of classic Jazz, an era in which the originators and leading lights of the music's development co-existed side by side with some of its finest consolidators, the years in which the Jazz message travelled all over the United States from New Orleans to Chicago, to New York, Los Angeles and beyond.

Track Listing

Disc One
JELLY-ROLL MORTON'S RED HOT PEPPERS:
1. Grandpa's Spells;
2. Original Jelly-Roll Blues;
3. Doctor Jazz;
4. Cannon Ball Blues

BIX BEIDERBECKE GANG:
5. At The Jazz Band Ball;
6. Royal Garden Blues;
7. Jazz Me Blues;
8. Since My Best Girl Turned Me Down

JOHNNY DODDS' BLACK BOTTOM STOMPERS:
9. Come On And Stomp, Stomp, Stomp;
10. After You've Gone;
11. Joe Turner Blues;
12. When Erasmus Plays His Old Kazoo

MIFF MOLE'S (LITTLE) MOLERS:
13. My Gal Sal;
14. Honolulu Blues;
15. One Step To Heaven (Windy City Stomp);
16. Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble

JIMMIE NOONE NEW ORLEANS GANG:
17. He's The Different Type Of Guy;
18. 'Way Down Yonder In New Orleans;
19. The Blues Jumped A Rabbit;
20. Sweet Georgia Brown

LOUIS PRIMA NEW ORLEANS GANG:
21. House Rent Party Day;
22. It's The Rhythm In Me;
23. Worry Blues TOMMY LADNIER ORCHESTRA:
24. Ja Da;
25. Really The Blues

Disc Two
TOMMY LADNIER ORCHESTRA:
1. When You And I Were Young, Maggie;
2. Weary Blues
BOB CROSBY'S BOB CATS:
3. Stumbling;
4. Who's Sorry Now?;
5. Coquette;
6. Fidgety Feet

WINGY MANONE ORCHESTRA:
7. Downright Disgusted Blues;
8. I'm A Real Kinda Papa (Lookin' For A Real Kinda Girl);
9. Jumpy Nerves;
10. Boogie Woogie

RED ALLEN ORCHESTRA:
11. Down In Jungle Town;
12. Canal Street Blues ZUTTY SINGLETON ORCHESTRA:
13. King Porter Stomp;
14. Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble

LU WATTERS YERBA BUENA JAZZ BAND:
15. Sunset Café Stomp;
16. Sage Hen Strut;
17. Panama;
18. Jazzin' Babies Blues

SIDNEY BECHET BLUE NOTE JAZZMEN:
19. High Society;
20. Salty Dog;
21. Weary Blues;
22. Jackass Blues

EDDIE CONDON ORCHESTRA:
23. Farewell Blues;
24. Improvisation For The March Of Time

Disc Three
EDDIE CONDON ORCHESTRA:
1. Atlanta Blues;
2. Just You, Just Me

DE PARIS BROTHERS ORCHESTRA:
3. I Found A New Baby;
4. Black And Blue;
5. Change O'Key Boogie;
6. The Sheik Of Araby

BOBBY HACKETT ORCHESTRA:
7. At Sundown;
8. New Orleans;
9. Skeleton Jangle;
10. When Day Is Done

BUNK JOHNSON NEW ORLEANS BAND:
11. Maryland, My Maryland;
12. Alexander's Ragtime Band;
13. Tishomingo Blues;
14. You Always Hurt The One You Love

WILD BILL DAVISON COMMODORES:
15. That's A Plenty;
16. Panama;
17. Riverboat Shuffle;
18. Muskrat Ramble

KID ORY CREOLE JAZZ BAND:
19. Savoy Blues;
20. Georgia Camp Meeting;
21. Mahogany Hall Stomp;
22. Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula

TURK MURPHY JAZZ BAND:
23. New Orleans Stomp;
24. Chimes Blues

Disc Four
EDMUND HALL SWINGTET:
1. I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me;
2. Big City Blues;
3. It's Been So Long;
4. Steamin' And Beamin'

MUGGSY SPANIER RAGTIMERS:
5. Sweet Sue, Just You;
6. Memphis Blues;
7. Riverside Blues;
8. Rosetta

GEORGE LEWIS NEW ORLEANS MUSIC:
9. Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula;
10. Burgundy Street Blues;
11. Willie The Weeper;
12. Mama Don't Allow

RED NICHOLS FIVE PENNIES:
13. Eccentric;
14. At The Jazz Band Ball;
15. Dallas Blues

JACK TEAGARDEN'S BIG EIGHT:
16. St. Louis Blues;
17. Blues After Hours;
18. Jam Session At Victor;
19. Say It Simple

LOUIS ARMSTRONG ORCHESTRA:
20. Perdido Street Blues;
21. 2.19 Blues;
22. Down In Honky Tonk Town;
23. Coal Cart Blues