Jazz Roots / Various Jazz Roots / Various CD

The Jazz Roots series traces the African ancestry of blues, jazz, bossa nova, fusion and this set gathers the many fruits of those fertile seeds. Check it out: Original Jelly Roll Blues Jelly Roll Baker; Maple Leaf Rag Scott Joplin; Dippermouth Blues Louis Armstrong; Take the 'A' Train Duke Ellington; Black Coffee Sarah Vaughan; Ornithology Charlie Parker; Downhearted Blues Bessie Smith; Take Five Dave Brubeck Quartet; So What Miles Davis; Birdland Weather Report; Rockit Herbie Hancock, and more!

1. Akiwowo 2. Maple Leaf Rag 3. Livery Stable Blues 4. West End Blues 5. One O'Clock Jump 6. Take the a Train 7. Sing, Sing, Sing 8. In the Mood 9. Downhearted Blues 10. God Bless the Child 11. Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week) 12. Taking a Chance on Love/I'm in the Mood for Love [Live] 13. Black Coffee 14. Cloudburst 15. Muddy Water 16. Ornithology 17. Manteca 18. Mambo Inn 19. Ran Kan Kan 20. Tu Conga Bach [Conga] 21. Take Five 22. Two Bass Hit 23. So What 24. Monk's Dream 25. Stone Flower 26. Doralice 27. Sorceress 28. Birdland 29. Funkin' for Jamaica 30. Rockit 31. Take Five [Live] 32. Strawberry Moon 33. Phryzzinian Man 34. Songbird 35. When I Fall in Love 36. Sweet Georgia Brown