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Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)

COMPLETE SET. discs are clean. box and booklet have some wear, still in good shape overall.

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@1987 Smithsonian Institution
Manufactured by CBS Records

. Volume 1
1-1. Scott Joplin - Maple Leaf Rag 3:19
1-2. Jelly Roll Morton - Maple Leaf Rag 2:40
1-3. Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues 3:05
1-4. Bessie Smith - Lost Your Head Blues 2:54
1-5. King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Dippermouth Blues 2:32
1-6. Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - Black Bottom Stomp 3:09
1-7. Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - Dead Man Blues 2:54
1-8. Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - Grandpa's Spells 2:52
1-9. Jelly Roll Morton - King Porter Stomp 2:52
1-10. The Red Onion Jazz Babies - Cake Walking Babies From Home 3:05
1-11. Sidney Bechet And His Blue Note Jazz Men - Blue Horizon 4:19
1-12. James Price Johnson - Carolina Shout 2:39
1-13. Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five - Big Butter And Egg Man From The West 2:57
1-14. Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven - Potato Head Blues 2:58
1-15. Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five - Struttin' With Some Barbecue 2:59
1-16. Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five - Hotter Than That 2:59
1-17. Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five - West End Blues 3:15
1-18. Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines - Weather Bird 2:41
1-19. Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra - Sweethearts On Parade 3:13
1-20. Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra - I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues 2:52
1-21. Frankie Trumbauer And His Orchestra - Singin' The Blues 2:58
1-22. Frankie Trumbauer And His Orchestra - Riverboat Shuffle 3:07
1-23. Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra - Four Or Five Times 3:14
. Volume 2
2-1. Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra - The Stampede 3:13
2-2. Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra - Wrappin' It Up 2:41
2-3. Red Nichols And His Five Pennies - Dinah 3:12
2-4. Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Moten Swing 3:19
2-5. Fats Waller - I Ain't Got Nobody 3:06
2-6. Meade "Lux" Lewis - Honky Tonk Train Blues 2:57
2-7. Benny Goodman Trio - Body And Soul 3:27
2-8. Coleman Hawkins And His Orchestra - Body And Soul 2:59
2-9. Coleman Hawkins Quartet - The Man I Love 5:04
2-10. Billie Holiday And Her Orchestra - He's Funny That Way 2:38
2-11. Billie Holiday And Her Orchestra - These Foolish Things 3:35
2-12. Ella Fitzgerald - You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To 2:44
2-13. Art Tatum - Willow Weep For Me 2:53
2-14. Art Tatum - Too Marvelous For Words 2:21
2-15. Jimmie Lunceford And His Orchestra - Organ Grinder's Swing 2:36
2-16. Gene Krupa And His Orchestra - Rockin' Chair 3:11
2-17. The Chocolate Dandies, Roy Eldridge, Benny Carter - I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me [Excerpt] 2:59
2-18. Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra - When Lights Are Low 2:11
2-19. Quintette Du Hot Club De France - Dinah 2:32
2-20. Count Basie Orchestra - Doggin' Around 2:57
2-21. Count Basie Orchestra - Taxi War Dance 2:47
2-22. Count Basie And The Kansas City Seven - Lester Leaps In 3:12
2-23. Benny Goodman Sextet, Charlie Christian, Count Basie - I Found A New Baby 2:53
2-24. Benny Goodman Sextet, Charlie Christian - Breakfast Feud [Composite] 2:18
. Volume 3
3-1. Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - East St. Louis Toddle-Oo 3:35
3-2. Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - The New East St. Louis Toodle-O 2:56
3-3. Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Diminuendo In Blue / Crescendo In Blue 5:56
3-4. Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Ko-Ko 2:40
3-5. Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Concerto For Cootie 3:17
3-6. Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Cotton Tail 3:08
3-7. Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - In A Mellotone 3:15
3-8. Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Blue Serge 3:19
3-9. Don Byas, Slam Stewart - I Got Rhythm 4:54
3-10. Dizzy Gillespie Sextet - I Can't Get Started 3:03
3-11. Dizzy Gillespie And His All Star Quintet - Shaw 'Nuff 2:55
3-12. Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers - Koko 2:51
3-13. Charlie Parker, Jazz At The Philharmonic - Lady, Be Good [Excerpt] 3:02
3-14. The Charlie Parker Quintet - Embraceable You [Take #1, Excerpt] 2:06
3-15. The Charlie Parker Quintet - Embraceable You [Take #2, Excerpt] 1:53
3-16. The Charlie Parker Quintet - Klactoveedsedstene 3:00
3-17. The Charlie Parker Sextet - Crazeology [Take #1] 1:01
3-18. The Charlie Parker Sextet - Crazeology [Take #4] 2:55
3-19. The Charlie Parker All-Stars - Parker's Mood 3:00
3-20. Erroll Garner - Fantasy On Frankie And Johnny 2:53
3-21. The Bud Powell Trio - A Night In Tunisia 4:13
3-22. Dexter Gordon Quartet - Bikini 3:34
3-23. The Tadd Dameron Sextet - Lady Bird 2:47
. Volume 4
4-1. Miles Davis And His Orchestra - Boplicity 2:57
4-2. Lennie Tristano Quintet - Subconscious Lee 2:44
4-3. Gene Norman's "Just Jazz", Red Norvo, Stan Getz - Body And Soul [Excerpt] 3:35
4-4. Sarah Vaughan - All Alone 2:19
4-5. Sarah Vaughan - My Funny Valentine 5:48
4-6. The Thelonious Monk Quartet - Misterioso 3:18
4-7. The Thelonious Monk Quartet - Evidence 2:30
4-8. The Thelonious Monk Quintet - Criss-Cross 2:54
4-9. Thelonious Monk - Bag's Groove [Solo From Miles Davis's All Stars Recording] 2:48
4-10. Thelonious Monk - I Should Care 3:11
4-11. The Horace Silver Quintet - Moon Rays 10:48
4-12. Miles Davis, Gil Evans And His Orchestra - Summertime 3:16
4-13. The Charles Mingus Quintet - Haitian Fight Song 11:51
4-14. The Modern Jazz Quartet - Django 5:22
4-15. Sonny Rollins Plus Four - Pent-Up House 8:52
. Volume 5
5-1. Sonny Rollins Quartet - Blue 7 11:08
5-2. The Wes Montgomery Quartet - West Coast Blues [Abridged] 5:30
5-3. The Miles Davis Sextet - So What 8:51
5-4. The Bill Evans Trio - Blue In Green 5:20
5-5. The Cecil Taylor Unit - Enter Evening 10:57
5-6. The John Coltrane Quartet - Alabama 5:09
5-7. The Ornette Coleman Quartet - Lonely Woman 4:54
5-8. The Ornette Coleman Quartet - Congeniality 6:41
5-9. The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet - Free Jazz [Excerpt] 10:03
5-10. World Saxophone Quartet - Steppin' 7:13

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