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RCA Victor Jazz / The First Half-Century (5-disc set)

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Disk 1:
1. Black Bottom Stomp - Jelly Roll Morton
2. Heah Me Talkin' - Johnny Dodds
3. Black Beauty - Duke Ellington
4. Variety Stomp - Fletcher Henderson
5. Too Late - King Oliver
6. Peggy - McKinney's Cotton Pickers
7. Boy in the Boat - Charlie Johnson
8. Bleeding Hearted Blues - James P. Johnson
9. Handful of Keys - Fats Waller
10. Glad Rag Doll - Earl Hines
11. Duet Stomp - Jones & Collins Astoria Hot Eight
12. Tiger Rag - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
13. She's Crying for Me - New Orleans Rhythm Kings
14. Lonely Melody - Bix Beiderbecke
15. Delirium - Red Nichols
16. Wild Cat - Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti
17. Waitin' for Katie - Benny Goodman, Ben Pollack
18. Doin' the Voom Voom - Duke Ellington Orchestra, Bubber Miley
19. Swing Out - Henry "Red" Allen
20. One Hour (If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight) - Coleman Hawkins
21. Hello Lola! - Pee Wee Russell
22. That's a Serious Thing - Eddie Condon, Jack Teagarden
23. South - Bennie Moten

Disc 2:
1. Basin Street Blues - Louis Armstrong
2. Daybreak Express - Duke Ellington
3. Moten Swing - Count Basie
4. Hocus Pocus - Fletcher Henderson
5. King Porter Stomp - Benny Goodman
6. Swingin' Uptown - Jimmie Lunceford
7. Song of India - Georgia Tom Dorsey
8. XYZ - Earl Hines
9. Cherokee - Charlie Barnet
10. Carioca - Artie Shaw
11. Any Old Time - Billie Holiday, Artie Shaw
12. Body and Soul - Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson
13. Life Goes to a Party - Benny Goodman, Harry James
14. Swing Is Here - Roy Eldridge, Gene Krupa
15. Shufflin' at the Hollywood - Lionel Hampton
16. I'm in the Mood for Swing - Benny Carter, Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra
17. Rockin' Chair - Mildred Bailey
18. Dinah - Fats Waller
19. Really the Blues - Sidney Bechet, Tommy Ladnier
20. Relaxin' at the Touro - Muggsy Spanier
21. Eel - Bud Freeman
22. I Can't Get Started - Bunny Berigan
23. Body and Soul - Coleman Hawkins

Disc 3:
1. Jack the Bear - Jimmy Blanton, Duke Ellington
2. Concerto for Cootie - Cootie Williams
3. Cotton Tail - Duke Ellington Orchestra, Ben Webster
4. Mobile Bay - Rex Stewart
5. Day Dream - Johnny Hodges
6. Pennies from Heaven - Louis Armstrong
7. Little Jazz - Roy Eldridge, Artie Shaw
8. Manteca - Dizzy Gillespie
9. Victory Ball - Charlie Parker
10. Epistrophy - Kenny Clarke
11. Half Step Down, Please - Coleman Hawkins
12. Spontaneous Combustion - Lennie Tristano
13. Stormy Monday - Billy Eckstine, Earl Hines
14. Bill's Mill - Count Basie
15. Yes, Indeed! - Tommy Dorsey
16. Summertime - Artie Shaw
17. All of Me - Benny Carter, Benny Carter
18. Old Man Blues - Sidney Bechet
19. Minor Swing - Django Reinhardt
20. Fifth Dimension - Mary Lou Williams
21. Cherokee - Art Tatum
22. Erroll's Bounce - Erroll Garner
23. My Blue Heaven - Oscar Peterson

Disc 4:
1. Whisper Not - Art Blakey
2. Ysabel's Table Dance - Charles Mingus
3. Salt Peanuts - Bud Powell
4. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair - Phineas Newborn, Jr.
5. Concerto for Billy the Kid - Bill Evans, Bill Evans, George Russell
6. Blues for Pablo - Gil Evans, Hal McKusick Octet
7. April in Paris - Sauter-Finegan Orchestra
8. Wailing Boat - Maynard Ferguson
9. Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West - John Lewis
10. Chiquito Loco - Art Pepper, Shorty Rogers
11. Roses of Picardy - Red Norvo
12. East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) - Al Cohn, Zoot Sims
13. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - Lee Wiley
14. Love Is Just Around the Corner - Henry "Red" Allen
15. Perdido - Duke Ellington Orchestra, Clark Terry

Disc 5:
1. Bridge - Sonny Rollins
2. Blood Count - Duke Ellington Orchestra, Billy Strayhorn
3. So What - J.J. Johnson
4. Where Do You Go?/Girl from Ipanema - Stan Getz
5. Here's That Rainy Day - Paul Desmond
6. Blight of the Fumble Bee - Paul Desmond, Gerry Mulligan
7. Old Folks - Jackie McLean
8. Star Eyes - Chet Baker
9. Sing Me Softly of the Blues - Gary Burton
10. One O'Clock Jump - Yolande Bavan, Jon Hendricks, Lambert
11. Come Back Baby - Joe Williams
12. Flying Home - Lionel Hampton, Illinois Jacquet