Jazz 4: Jazz Singers / Var Jazz 4: Jazz Singers / Var CD

Here is a sampling of some of the most active Jazz vocalists of the 1920's, '30's and '40's: Louis Armstrong, Ivy Anderson, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Bessie Smith, Sonny Terry and Ma Rainey. They are backed by equally big-time instrumentalists: Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Dorsey, Count Basie and Bix Beiderbecke who, according to legend, threw a week's pay on the floor the first night he heard Bessie Smith, hoping her singing would never end.

1. All of Me / the Mooche/ Margie / Louisiana / Baby Won't You Please Come Home? / It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing / Doctor Jazz (Medley) 2. Organ Grinder's Swing 3. Don't You Miss Your Baby? 4. Keep a Knockin' / Jingle Bells / Oopapada / Sugar (Medley) 5. I Can't Give You Anything But Love 6. A Good Man Is Hard to Find 7. You Gotta Have That Thing 8. Traveling Blues 9. Strut That Thing 10. Trouble in Mind 11. Jitterbug 12. Fox Chase