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Annotation

A 168-CD box, divided into 42 sets à 4 CDs in Sitofy cases. Each set has its own catalog #, ranging from 22757-382 to 22798-382, with /A-D added for CDs 1-4, respectively. Each CD is called "Menu" here and is dedicated to one musician or band, who mostly appears in different collaborations.

Includes two 180-page books with artist biographies.

Set 01-09: "Classic Jazz - Ragtime - Dixieland"
Set 10-16: "Blues"
Set 17: "Boogie Woogie"
Set 18-32: "Swing to Bebop - Modern Jazz"
Set 33-37: "Big Band"
Set 38-42: "Vocalists"

Annotation last modified on 2014-08-22 21:23 UTC.

Tracklist

1▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Scott Joplin
2▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Original Dixieland Jazz Band
3▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – New Orleans Rhythm Kings
4▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – King Oliver
5▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Jelly Roll Morton
6▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Duke Ellington
7▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Bix Beiderbecke
8▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Buster Bailey
9▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Johnny Dodds
10▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Louis Armstrong
11▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Luis Russell
12▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Red Nichols
13▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – McKinney’s Cotton Pickers
14▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Jack Teagarden
15▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – J.C. Higginbotham
16▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Benny Carter
17▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Clarence Williams
18▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Fletcher Henderson
19▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Jabbo Smith’s Rhythm Aces
20▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – the Rhythmakers
21▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Sidney Bechet
22▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Washboard Rhythm Kings
23▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Mezz Mezzrow
24▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Pee Wee Russell
25▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Muggsy Spanier
26▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Bud Freeman
27▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Eddie Condon Dixieland All‐Stars
28▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – George Wettling
29▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Lu Watters
30▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Bobby Hackett
31▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Edmond Hall
32▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Barney Bigard
33▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Kid Ory
34▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Wilbur de Paris
35▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – George Lewis Ragtime Jazzband of New Orleans
36▶CD: Classic Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland – Louis Armstrong [Louis Armstrong and His All‐Stars]
37▶CD: Blues – Bessie Smith
38▶CD: Blues – Ma Rainey
39▶CD: Blues – Mississippi John Hurt
40▶CD: Blues – Tampa Red
41▶CD: Blues – T‐Bone Walker
42▶CD: Blues – Josh White
43▶CD: Blues – Blind Willie McTell
44▶CD: Blues – Big Bill Broonzy
45▶CD: Blues – Leadbelly
46▶CD: Blues – Big Joe Williams
47▶CD: Blues – Robert Johnson
48▶CD: Blues – Kokomo Arnold
49▶CD: Blues – John Lee Williamson [Sonny Boy Williamson]
50▶CD: Blues – Sonny Terry
51▶CD: Blues – Sleepy John Estes
52▶CD: Blues – Brownie McGhee
53▶CD: Blues – Memphis Slim
54▶CD: Blues – Muddy Waters
55▶CD: Blues – Big Boy Crudup [Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup]
56▶CD: Blues – Big Joe Turner
57▶CD: Blues – Roosevelt Sykes
58▶CD: Blues – Lightnin’ Hopkins
59▶CD: Blues – John Lee Hooker
60▶CD: Blues – Johnny Otis
61▶CD: Blues – B.B. King
62▶CD: Blues – Jimmy Witherspoon
63▶CD: Blues – Howlin’ Wolf
64▶CD: Blues – Ray Charles
65▶CD: Boogie Woogie – Albert Ammons
66▶CD: Boogie Woogie – Meade “Lux” Lewis
67▶CD: Boogie Woogie – Pete Johnson
68▶CD: Boogie Woogie – the Big Band Boogie Woogie
69▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang
70▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Fats Waller
71▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Coleman Hawkins
72▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Art Tatum
73▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Ben Webster
74▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Django Reinhardt [Quintette Du Hot club de France]
75▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Benny Goodman
76▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Roy Eldridge
77▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Earl “Fatha” Hines
78▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lester Young
79▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Teddy Wilson
80▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Benny Carter
81▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lionel Hampton
82▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charlie Shavers [John Kirby and His Onyx club Boys]
83▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charlie Christian
84▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Dexter Gordon
85▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Erroll Garner
86▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Slam Stewart
87▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Wardell Gray
88▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lucky Thompson
89▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Don Byas
90▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Illinois Jacquet
91▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charlie Parker
92▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Dizzy Gillespie
93▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis
94▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lennie Tristano
95▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Thelonious Monk
96▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Fats Navarro
97▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – George Shearing
98▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Gene Ammons
99▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Sonny Stitt
100▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Bud Powell
101▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lee Konitz
102▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Miles Davis
103▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Zoot Sims
104▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Herbie Mann
105▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – James Moody
106▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Stan Getz
107▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Dave Brubeck
108▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – the Modern Jazz Quartet
109▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Jay Jay Johnson [J. J. Johnson]
110▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Gerry Mulligan
111▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Sonny Rollins
112▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Paul Quinichette
113▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Art Pepper
114▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Shorty Rogers
115▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Horace Silver
116▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Chet Baker
117▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Bud Shank
118▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Clifford Brown
119▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charlie Parker
120▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Barney Kessel
121▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Lou Donaldson
122▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Art Farmer
123▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Tal Farlow
124▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Charles Mingus
125▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Dizzy Gillespie
126▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Phil Woods
127▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – Jackie McLean & Donald Byrd
128▶CD: Swing to Bebop, Modern Jazz – the Jazz Messengers [Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers]
129▶CD: Big Bands – Bennie Moten
130▶CD: Big Bands – Jimmie Lunceford
131▶CD: Big Bands – Fletcher Henderson
132▶CD: Big Bands – Chick Webb
133▶CD: Big Bands – Benny Goodman
134▶CD: Big Bands – Tommy Dorsey
135▶CD: Big Bands – Harry James
136▶CD: Big Bands – Earl “Fatha” Hines [Earl Hines and His Orchestra]
137▶CD: Big Bands – Count Basie
138▶CD: Big Bands – Artie Shaw
139▶CD: Big Bands – Glenn Miller
140▶CD: Big Bands – Bunny Berigan
141▶CD: Big Bands – Gene Krupa
142▶CD: Big Bands – Charlie Barnet
143▶CD: Big Bands – Erskine Hawkins
144▶CD: Big Bands – Lionel Hampton
145▶CD: Big Bands – Duke Ellington
146▶CD: Big Bands – Woody Herman
147▶CD: Big Bands – Stan Kenton
148▶CD: Big Bands – Shorty Rogers
149▶CD: Vocalists – the Boswell Sisters
150▶CD: Vocalists – the Mills Brothers
151▶CD: Vocalists – Billie Holiday
152▶CD: Vocalists – Mildred Bailey
153▶CD: Vocalists – Ivie Anderson
154▶CD: Vocalists – Ella Fitzgerald
155▶CD: Vocalists – the Andrews Sisters
156▶CD: Vocalists – Lena Horne
157▶CD: Vocalists – Anita O’Day
158▶CD: Vocalists – Billy Eckstine
159▶CD: Vocalists – Peggy Lee
160▼CD: Vocalists – Nat King Cole
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Sweet Lorraine
recording of:
Sweet Lorraine
lyricist:
Mitchell Parish (in 1928)
composer:
Cliff Burwell (in 1928)
publisher:
EMI Mills Music Inc. (ASCAP-affiliated), Everbright Music Co. and Mills Music, Inc.
Nat King Cole3:09
2Embraceable You
double bass:
Johnny Miller (part of the Nat King Cole Trio) (on 1943-12-15)
guitar:
Oscar Moore (on 1943-12-15)
piano:
Nat King Cole (on 1943-12-15)
vocals:
Nat King Cole (on 1943-12-15), Johnny Miller (part of the Nat King Cole Trio) (on 1943-12-15) and Oscar Moore (on 1943-12-15)
recorded at:
C. P. MacGregor Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States (on 1943-12-15)
instrumental cover recording of:
Embraceable You (on 1943-12-15)
lyricist:
Ira Gershwin (in 1928)
composer:
George Gershwin (composer) (in 1928)
publisher:
Ira Gershwin Music, New World Music (new age music), New World Music Corp., Warner Bros. Music Corp., Warner/Chappell Music Ltd. (1996–2019), WB Music Corp. (1929–2019) (until 2019-05-28) and WC Music Corp. (from 2019-05-28 until 2024-01-01)
part of:
Crazy for You (1992 musical)
part of:
Girl Crazy (1930 Musical)
part of:
When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965 film)
Nat King Cole3:24
3It’s Only a Paper Moon
cover recording of:
It’s Only a Paper Moon
lyricist:
E.Y. Harburg (in 1933) and Billy Rose (lyricist and Broadway producer) (in 1933)
composer:
Harold Arlen (in 1933)
publisher:
Anne-Rachel Music Corp., Chappell & Co., Chappell Music Ltd., Gloccamorria Music, Next Decade Entertainment, S.A. Music Co., SA Music, Shapiro Bernstein & Co. Ltd. and Warner Bros. Music (publisher; do NOT use as release label)
Nat King Cole2:56
4I Just Can’t See for Looking
double bass:
Red Callender (on 1943-12-15) and Johnny Miller (part of the Nat King Cole Trio) (on 1943-12-15)
guitar:
Oscar Moore (on 1943-12-15)
piano:
Nat King Cole (on 1943-12-15)
vocals:
Nat King Cole (on 1943-12-15), Johnny Miller (part of the Nat King Cole Trio) (on 1943-12-15) and Oscar Moore (on 1943-12-15)
recorded at:
C. P. MacGregor Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States (on 1943-12-15)
recording of:
I Just Can’t See for Lookin’ (on 1943-12-15)
writer:
Nadine Robinson and Dok Stanford
Nat King Cole3:08
5I Realize Now
Nat King Cole3:10
6I’d Love to Make Love to You
Nat King Cole3:10
7Katusha
Nat King Cole2:31
8You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
double bass:
Johnny Miller (part of the Nat King Cole Trio) (on 1945-05-19)
guitar:
Oscar Moore (on 1945-05-19)
piano:
Nat King Cole (on 1945-05-19)
vocals:
Nat King Cole (on 1945-05-19)
recorded at:
Radio Recorders Studios (Santa Monica Blvd. location since 1949) in West Hollywood, California, United States (on 1945-05-19)
recording of:
You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You (on 1945-05-19)
writer:
James Cavanaugh, Russ Morgan (Big Band orchestra leader) and Larry Stock
publisher:
Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.), Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc. and Southern Music Publishing Co., Inc. ((ASCAP) tradename Peermusic)
part of:
The Real Book (compilation of jazz standards, Volume I)
cover recording of:
You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You (in 1945)
writer:
James Cavanaugh, Russ Morgan (Big Band orchestra leader) and Larry Stock
publisher:
Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.), Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc. and Southern Music Publishing Co., Inc. ((ASCAP) tradename Peermusic)
part of:
The Real Book (compilation of jazz standards, Volume I)
Nat King Cole2:51
9Don’t Blame Me
recording of:
Don’t Blame Me
lyricist:
Dorothy Fields (American librettist and lyricist)
composer:
Jimmy McHugh (songwriter)
publisher:
EMI Robbins Catalog Inc. (ASCAP) and Ireneadele Publishing
Nat King Cole3:24
10I’m Thru With You
Nat King Cole2:56
11I’m in the Mood for Love
double bass:
Johnny Miller (part of the Nat King Cole Trio) (on 1946-03-15)
guitar:
Oscar Moore (on 1946-03-15)
piano:
Nat King Cole (on 1946-03-15)
recorded at:
Radio Recorders Studios (Santa Monica Blvd. location since 1949) in West Hollywood, California, United States (on 1946-03-15)
recording of:
I’m in the Mood for Love (on 1946-03-15)
lyricist:
Dorothy Fields (American librettist and lyricist)
composer:
Jimmy McHugh (songwriter)
publisher:
Margenia Music, MCI Music Publishing Ltd., EMI Robbins Catalog Inc. (ASCAP) (in 1935, in 1963) and EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated) (in 2016)
Nat King Cole3:12
12I Don’t Know Why
double bass:
Johnny Miller (part of the Nat King Cole Trio) (on 1946-03-15)
guitar:
Oscar Moore (on 1946-03-15)
piano and lead vocals:
Nat King Cole (on 1946-03-15)
recorded at:
Radio Recorders Studios (Santa Monica Blvd. location since 1949) in West Hollywood, California, United States (on 1946-03-15)
cover recording of:
I Don’t Know Why (on 1946-03-15)
lyricist:
Roy Turk (in 1931)
composer:
Fred Ahlert (in 1931)
publisher:
Bucks Music Ltd, Leo Feist, Inc., Memory Lane Music Ltd. and Redwood Music
Nat King Cole3:11
13Route 66
recording of:
(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66
lyricist and composer:
Bobby Troup
publisher:
Chappell Morris Ltd., E. H. Morris, LondonTown Music, Inc., Troup-London, LLC, ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., holding company – do not use as release label), ワーナー・チャペル音楽出版 Synch事業部 (Warner/Chappell Music Japan K.K., Synch Division) and Burke-Van Heusen, Inc. (on 1946-04-22)
Nat King Cole3:01
14Everyone Is Sayin’ Hello Again
double bass:
Johnny Miller (part of the Nat King Cole Trio) (on 1946-03-15)
guitar:
Oscar Moore (on 1946-03-15)
piano:
Nat King Cole (on 1946-03-15)
lead vocals:
King Cole (on 1946-03-15)
vocals:
Nat King Cole (on 1946-03-15)
recorded at:
Radio Recorders Studios (Santa Monica Blvd. location since 1949) in West Hollywood, California, United States (on 1946-03-15)
recording of:
Everyone Is Sayin’ Hello Again (Why Must We Say Goodbye?) (on 1946-03-15)
writer:
Jerry Marlowe and Jack Segal (US songwriter)
Nat King Cole2:39
15What Can I Say After I Say I’m Sorry
double bass:
Johnny Miller (part of the Nat King Cole Trio) (on 1946-04-05)
guitar:
Oscar Moore (on 1946-04-05)
piano and lead vocals:
Nat King Cole (on 1946-04-05)
vocals:
Nat King Cole (on 1946-04-05)
recorded at:
Radio Recorders Studios (Santa Monica Blvd. location since 1949) in West Hollywood, California, United States (on 1946-04-05)
recording of:
What Can I Say After I Say I’m Sorry? (on 1946-04-05)
lyricist and composer:
Walter Donaldson (in 1926) and Abe Lyman (in 1926)
Nat King Cole3:03
16Could‐’Ja
Nat King Cole3:01
17Baby, Baby All the Time
cover recording of:
Baby Baby All the Time
lyricist and composer:
Bobby Troup
Nat King Cole3:02
18You Call It Madness
double bass:
Johnny Miller (part of the Nat King Cole Trio) (on 1946-05-01)
guitar:
Oscar Moore (on 1946-05-01)
piano:
Nat King Cole (on 1946-05-01)
vocals:
Nat King Cole (on 1946-05-01)
recorded at:
Radio Recorders Studios (Santa Monica Blvd. location since 1949) in West Hollywood, California, United States (on 1946-05-01)
recording of:
You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love) (on 1946-05-01)
writer:
Russ Columbo (American singer, songwriter, violinist and actor), Con Conrad, Gladys DuBois and Paul Gregory (Songwriter)
part of:
Going Hollywood (1933 film)
Nat King Cole3:05
19Look What You Have Done to Me
Nat King Cole3:03
20It Only Happens Once
Nat King Cole2:55
161▶CD: Vocalists – June Christy
162▶CD: Vocalists – Frank Sinatra
163▶CD: Vocalists – Dinah Washington
164▶CD: Vocalists – Mel Tormé
165▶CD: Vocalists – Sarah Vaughan
166▶CD: Vocalists – Ella Fitzgerald
167▶CD: Vocalists – Joe Williams
168▶CD: Vocalists – Billie Holiday