Artist	Song
DISC ONE:	INVENTION
Fats Waller	The Meanest Thing You Ever Did Was Kiss Me
Louis Armstrong	When It's Sleepytime Down South
Art Tatum	Tiger Rag
Benny Goodman	Down South Camp Meeting
Chick Webb's Savoy Orchestra	Stompin' at the Savoy
Count Basie	One O'Clock Jump
Artie Shaw	Begin the Beguine
Duke Ellington	Main Stem
Gene Krupa	Blue Rhythm Fantasy
Billie Holiday	Autumn in New York
Ella Fitzgerald	Someone To Watch Over Me
Sarah Vaughan	Perdido
Ben Webster	I'm Beginning to See the Light
Bud Powell	Shawnuff (live in Paris)
Charlie Parker	Chi-Chi (master take)
Clifford Brown	Swingin'
Dizzy Gillespie	A Night in Tunisia
Dave Brubeck Quartet	Take Five
Gerry Mulligan with Chet Baker	Lullaby of the Leaves
Art Pepper	You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To

Comment:

I cooked this up to let the (mostly positive) memories from Ken Burns' "Jazz" documentary linger for a few more days. I confined this set only to the artists he featured in the 10-part series. There's been lots of debate about who got left out, why no electric instrumentalists were included, Wynton Marsalis' nearsighted view of what defines jazz, etc., but the whole genre got a pretty good ride out of the publicity and, no matter what, there was lots of good music featured throughout. My next project is a two-disc set of the players Burns left out, which probably will be just as good. In the meantime, here's to Burns, Fats, Louis, etc.

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