Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Dixie Jass Band One-Step - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
2. Canal Street Blues - King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
3. New Orleans Wiggle - Piron's New Orleans Orchestra
4. Black Bottom Stomp - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
5. Wolverine Blues - Jelly Roll Morton
6. At the Jazz Band Ball - Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang
7. Memphis Blues - Ben Pollack & His Orchestra
8. China Boy
9. Clarinetitis - Benny Goodman
10. Bone Yard Shuffle - Red Nichols & His Five Pennies
11. She's Crying for Me - Wynn's Creole Jazz Band
12. Smilin' the Blues Away - Jelly Roll Morton Trio
13. Panama - Luis Russell & His Orchestra
14. 'Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Jimmie Noone
15. Weary Blues - Tommy Ladnier & His Orchestra
16. Nobody's Sweetheart - Eddie Condon & His Band
17. Dear Old Southland - Sidney Bechet
18. King Porter Stomp - Zutty Singleton
19. Copenhagen - Bud Freeman
20. Sheik of Araby - Eddie Condon
21. Muskrat Ramble
22. Blame It on the Blues (Quincy Street Stomp) - Bechet-Nicholas Blue Five
23. Buddy Bolden Blues

Disc 2:

1. Nobody's Sweetheart - Benny Goodman & His Trio
2. Dicky Wells Blues - Dicky Wells
3. Let's Swing It - Louis Prima
4. Crazy Rhythm - Coleman Hawkins & His All Star Jam Band
5. Down Home Jump - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra
6. Jim Jam Stomp
7. Looney - Al Cooper & His Savoy Sultans
8. Shivers - Benny Goodman Sextet
9. Shufflin' at the Hollywood - Lionel Hampton
10. Hootie's Ignorant Oil - Jay McShann & His Orchestra
11. Linger Awhile - Big Sid Catlett
12. Front and Center - John Kirby Sextet
13. I May Be Wrong
14. Destination K.C. - Kansas City Seven
15. Too Marvelous for Words - George Wettling's New Yorkers
16. Seven Come Eleven
17. Bunch of Rhythm - Horace Henderson & His Orchestra
18. Behind the Eight Bar - Trummy Young
19. Gotta Gimme What You Got - Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends
20. I Want to Go Where You Go - Benny Goodman Sextet
21. Jonah's Wail - Jonah Jones
22. Airiness a la Nat - Keynoters
23. Boogie Woogie Barbecue - Tiny Grimes Quintet
24. I Want to Be Happy - Lester Young

Disc 3:

1. Put It There (Shag Nasty) - McKinney's Cotton Pickers
2. Down South Camp Meeting - Fletcher Henderson
3. Walkin' & Swingin' - Andy Kirk & His Clouds of Joy
4. Jivin' the Jeep
5. Sing, Sing, Sing - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
6. Lisa - Chick Webb & His Orchestra
7. Wolverine Blues - Bob Crosby
8. 'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It) - Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra
9. Ratamacue - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
10. Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam)
11. Tickle-Toe - Count Basie
12. Dameron Stomp - Harlan Leonard
13. Pound Ridge - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
14. Up Jumped the Devil - Earl Hines & His Orchestra
15. Jumpin' Punkins - Duke Ellington
16. Little John Special - Lucky Millinder
17. Good Earth - Woody Herman,
18. Moten Swing - Harry James & His Orchestra
19. In the Middle
20. Quiet Riot - Buddy Rich & His Orchestra
21. Our Delight - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
22. Oo Bop Sh'bam - Billy Eckstine & His Orchestra
23. How High the Moon - Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
24. Four Brothers - Woody Herman,

Disc 4:

1. Rifftide - Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra
2. Congo Blues - Red Norvo & His Selected Sextet
3. Get Happy - Red Norvo & His Selected Sextet
4. Moose the Mooche - Charlie Parker
5. Commercial Eyes - Dodo Marmarosa, Lucky Thompson
6. Lester's Be-Bop Boogie - Lester Young
7. Easy Swing - Wardell Gray,
8. Relaxin' at Camarillo - Charlie Parker
9. Chase - Dexter Gordon Quintet
10. All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
11. Klact-Oveeseds-Tene - Charlie Parker Quintet
12. Lop-Pow
13. Dextrose - Dexter Gordon
14. Wee Dot
15. Jumpin' at the Woodside - Lester Young
16. Bird - Charlie Parker Quintet
17. Last Word - Howard McGhee
18. Dinky
19. Lady Bird - Tadd Dameron Sextet
20. More Brew - Brew Moore
21. Pina Colada - Charlie Ventura
22. Oh Henry - James Moody
23. Shawn - Buddy Stewart
24. Bop Alley

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14720 in Music
• Released on: 1999-06-22
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Import

Album Description
Budget-priced box set featuring over five hours of music on 4 CDs from the top skin-beaters. This is the definitive history of jazz drumming from Storyville to 52nd Street. Includes tracks from Baby Dodds, Ben Pollack, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Big Sid Catlett and dozens more. Also contains a fully illustrated 48 page booklet with references, a discography and bio on each artist. 95 tracks! Each disc comes in a separate standard jewel case within a thick, full color slipcase box. 1999 release.

Customer Reviews

a remarkable collection at a great price
Like the companion set, Hittin' on All Six (jazz guitar), this collection brings together a wide range of excellent records that date from the earliest jazz recordings going up though early modern. Some of the selections are predictable, some are obscure, but they all are interesting. Lots of Sid Catlett, for example, and excellent choices on the big band side in particular (Cozy Cole, Jimmy Crawford and Jo Jones, to name three). No Lionel Hampton, but the fabulous cymbal beat of Alvin Burroughs with a Hampton small group. And of course, Chick Webb's Liza, which features wonderful drumming but also a really fine trumpet solo by Bobby Stark (the 2nd solo).

A Great Drum CD
This is a great CD that show a complete panorama about the
history of drums and drummers. They are 4 CD's selected by themes like:
1.New Orleans Style/ 2.Swing is Here/ 3.Big Band's / 4. Modernism.
Have an excellent book with a short history of each drummer, with
good pictures from the greatest drummers.
It has great's drums solos from Ray Bauduc, Baby Dodd's, Zutty Singleton, Sony Greer(very rare), Chick Webb, Sid Cattlet, Buddy Rich, Louis Bellson and some others not so famous, but very important to the history of the drums. And good executions from Tony Sbarbaro (his name are incorrect on cd: "Sharbaro"), Cozy Cole, Krupa, Manzey Johnson, Art Blakey playing on a big band, and more...
I miss more drums solos. That's the reason i gave "4" and not "5" stars. Unfortunatly dont have any solo from the greatest Dave Tough, Jo Jones and Lionel Hampton (Hampton don even appears on cd).
But the people who select this collection knows about the drum and drummers history!
Every drummer or lover need's to have this collection!!!
Is an excellent and well done jazz drumming class!!!