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Lesson Track # Artist Song Title Date
Lesson 4 CD2:24 John Coltrane listen Alabama 1963
Lesson 3 CD2:10 Gerry Mulligan Quartet listen Bernie’s Tune 1952
Lesson 3 CD2:17 Charles Mingus listen Better Get Hit In Your Soul 1959
Lesson 1 CD1:11 Jelly Roll Morton listen Black Bottom Stomp 1926
Lesson 4 CD2:37 Wynton Marsalis listen Black Codes 1985
Lesson 4 CD2:41 Brad Meldhau listen Blackbird 1997
Lesson 4 CD2:38 Wynton Marsalis listen Blood on the Fields 1997
Lesson 3 CD2:01 Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra listen Blowin’ the Blues Away 1944
Lesson 3 CD2:12 Clifford Brown–Max Roach Quintet listen Blues Walk 1955
Lesson 2 CD1:43 Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra listen Body and Soul 1939
Lesson 1 CD1:10 Bunk Johnson listen Bolden Medley 1947
Lesson 4 CD2:32 Weather Report listen Boogie Woogie Waltz 1973
Lesson 3 CD2:09 Miles Davis Nonet listen Boplicity 1949
Lesson 1 CD1:17 Sidney Bechet listen Cake Walking Babies From Home 1925
Lesson 4 CD2:33 Herbie Hancock listen Chameleon 1973
Lesson 1 CD1:21 King Oliver listen Chimes Blues 1923
Lesson 2 CD1:31 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra listen Cotton Tail 1940
Lesson 4 CD2:35 Stan Getz listen Desafinado 1962
Lesson 1 CD1:13 Original Dixieland Jazz Band listen Dixie Jass Band One-Step 1917
Lesson 3 CD2:05 Charlie Parker Quintet listen Embraceable You 1947
Lesson 3 CD2:20 Max Roach listen Freedom Day 1959
Lesson 3 CD2:19 Sonny Rollins listen Freedom Suite 1958
Lesson 2 CD1:34 Art Tatum listen Get Happy 1940
Lesson 3 CD2:22 John Coltrane Quartet listen Giant Steps 1959
Lesson 1 CD1:07 Leadbelly listen Good Morning Blues 1940
Lesson 2 CD1:33 Fats Waller listen Handful of Keys 1929
Lesson 2 CD1:45 Ella Fitzgerald listen How High the Moon 1947
Lesson 4 CD2:36 Betty Carter listen I Could Write A Book 1980
Lesson 2 CD1:27 Chicago Rhythm Kings listen I’ve Found a New Baby 1928
Lesson 3 CD2:15 Miles Davis Quintet listen If I Were A Bell 1956
Lesson 2 CD1:36 Count Basie and His Orchestra listen Jumpin’ at the Woodside 1938
Lesson 4 CD2:30 Henry Threadgill listen Just the Facts & Pass the Bucket 1983
Lesson 2 CD1:28 Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra listen Keep a Song in Your Soul 1930
Lesson 2 CD1:38 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra listen King Porter Stomp 1935
Lesson 3 CD2:02 Charlie Parker’s Reboppers listen Ko Ko 1945
Lesson 2 CD1:37 Jones-Smith, Inc. listen Lady Be Good 1936
Lesson 2 CD1:26 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra listen Lazy River 1931
Lesson 1 CD1:08 Reverend Kelsey and the Temple Church of God in Christ listen Little Boy
Lesson 1 CD1:14 Original Dixieland Jazz Band listen Livery Stable Blues 1917
Lesson 2 CD1:29 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra listen Lonely Melody 1928
Lesson 4 CD2:25 Ornette Coleman listen Lonely Woman 1959
Lesson 1 CD1:09 Jelly Roll Morton listen Mamanita 1924
Lesson 3 CD2:07 Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra listen Manteca 1947
Lesson 1 CD1:06 Scott Joplin listen Maple Leaf Rag 1916
Lesson 1 CD1:18 Sidney Bechet listen Maple Leaf Rag 1932
Lesson 2 CD1:41 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra with Billie Holiday listen Mean to Me 1937
Lesson 1 CD1:16 James Reese Europe’s Hellfighters Band listen Memphis Blues 1919
Lesson 3 CD2:16 Cannonball Adderley Quintet listen Mercy, Mercy, Mercy 1966
Lesson 2 CD1:39 Benny Goodman Quartet listen Moon Glow 1936
Lesson 2 CD1:35 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra listen Moten Swing 1932
Lesson 5 CD2:43 John Coltrane listen My Favorite Things 1960
Lesson 1 CD1:05 Louis Armstrong All Stars listen New Orleans Function/Didn’t He Ramble 1951
Lesson 3 CD2:18 Charles Mingus listen Original Fables of Faubus 1960
Lesson 1 CD1:12 Jelly Roll Morton listen Original Jelly Roll Blues 1926
Lesson 4 CD2:27 Eric Dolphy listen Out to Lunch 1964
Lesson 3 CD2:03 Charlie Parker All Stars listen Parker’s Mood 1948
Lesson 4 CD2:42 Dave Douglass (2002) listen Penelope 2002
Lesson 1 CD1:02 Enrico Caruso listen Questa o quella (Rigoletto) 1908
Lesson 4 CD2:26 Ornette Coleman listen Ramblin’ 1959
Lesson 4 CD2:23 John Coltrane listen Resolution 1964
Lesson 2 CD1:42 Gene Krupa and His Orchestra featuring Roy Eldridge listen Rockin’ Chair 1941
Lesson 3 CD2:08 Thelonious Monk Quintet listen Round Midnight 1947
Lesson 1 CD1:03 listen Royal Drums of the Abatusi 1951
Lesson 1 CD1:20 Bix Beiderbecke listen Royal Garden Blues 1924
Lesson 3 CD2:04 Dizzy Gillespie Quintet listen Shaw ’Nuff 1945
Lesson 3 CD2:11 Sarah Vaughan listen Shulie-a-Bop 1954
Lesson 1 CD1:22 King Oliver listen Snake Rag 1923
Lesson 3 CD2:21 Miles Davis Sextet listen So What 1959
Lesson 2 CD1:40 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra featuring Charlie Christian listen Solo Flight 1941
Lesson 4 CD2:34 Chick Corea listen Spain 1972
Lesson 4 CD2:31 Miles Davis listen Spanish Key 1969
Lesson 1 CD1:24 Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith listen St. Louis Blues
Lesson 3 CD2:14 Sonny Rollins Quartet listen St. Thomas 1956
Lesson 4 CD2:28 Cecil Taylor listen Steps 1966
Lesson 2 CD1:44 Billie Holiday listen Strange Fruit 1939
Lesson 1 CD1:23 Louis Armstrong listen Sugar Foot Stomp 1925
Lesson 3 CD2:44 Dave Brubeck Quartet listen Take Five 1959
Lesson 2 CD1:32 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra listen Take the “A” Train 1941
Lesson 1 CD1:15 James Reese Europe’s Hellfighters Band listen That Moaning Trombone 1919
Lesson 1 CD1:01 Eugene List listen The Banjo: Fantasie Grotesque, Op. 15 1956
Lesson 2 CD1:30 Duke Ellington and His (Cotton Club) Orchestra listen The Mooche 1928
Lesson 3 CD2:13 Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers listen The Preacher 1955
Lesson 4 CD2:40 Cassandra Wilson (2002) listen The Waters of March 2002
Lesson 1 CD1:19 Bix Beiderbecke listen Tiger Rag 1924
Lesson 3 CD2:06 Bud Powell Trio listen Un Poco Loco 1951
Lesson 4 CD2:29 Anthony Braxton listen W-138 1976
Lesson 2 CD1:25 Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five listen West End Blues 1928
Lesson 1 CD1:04 Eureka Brass Band listen Whoopin’ Blues 1940
Lesson 4 CD2:39 Nicholas Payton listen Whoopin’ Blues 1995
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