Ken Burns Jazz

by Fletcher Henderson

Ken Burns Jazz cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 7 November 2000
  • Label: Columbia/Legacy
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:12:23
  • Community rating: 3.65/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A companion to Ken Burns' documentary series devoted to Fletcher Henderson, whose arrangements in the twenties effectively invented the big band template. Henderson's orchestra employed Louis Armstrong and Coleman Hawkins, and Benny Goodman later bought his charts and built the swing era on them.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, orchestral, traditional, melodic, virtuosic

Tracklist

  1. Teapot Dome Blues (Album Version) (2:56)
  2. Shanghai Shuffle (3:17)
  3. Copenhagen (Album Version) (2:50)
  4. Sugar Foot Stomp (Album Version) (2:48)
  5. The Chant (Album Version) (2:56)
  6. Hot Mustard (Album Version) (2:39)
  7. Sensation (Album Version) (2:46)
  8. Livery Stable Blues (Album Version) (2:45)
  9. My Pretty Girl (Album Version) (3:20)
  10. Hot And Anxious (Album Version) (3:19)
  11. Comin' And Goin' (Album Version) (3:09)
  12. Radio Rhythm (Album Version) (2:56)
  13. Oh! It Looks Like Rain (Album Version) (2:33)
  14. King Porter Stomp (Album Version) (2:56)
  15. Queer Notions (78rpm Version) (2:30)
  16. Can You Take It? (Album Version) (2:49)
  17. Happy Feet (Album Version) (2:47)
  18. Big John's Special (Album Version) (2:53)
  19. Hotter Than 'Ell (2:51)
  20. Christopher Columbus (78rpm Version) (3:02)
  21. Grand Terrace Swing (78rpm Version) (2:56)
  22. Stealin' Apples (Album Version) (2:54)
  23. Jim Town Blues (Album Version) (2:42)
  24. Stampede (Album Version) (3:04)
  25. Kitty On Toast (Album Version) (2:45)

Credits

  • Fletcher Henderson - primary artist, piano, written-by, arranged by, conductor
  • Ken Burns - compiled by
  • Michael Brooks - compiled by
  • Don Redman - clarinet, alto saxophone, arranged by, oboe, alto saxophone, arranged by
  • Elmer Chambers - cornet, trumpet
  • Howard Scott - cornet, trumpet
  • Coleman Hawkins - tenor saxophone, bass saxophone, clarinet, tenor saxophone, clarinet, written-by
  • Buster Bailey - clarinet, alto saxophone
  • Ben Young - a&r
  • Lynn Novick - a&r
  • Michael Cuscuna - a&r
  • Peter Miller - a&r
  • Richard Seidel - a&r
  • Sarah Bostein - a&r
  • Seth Rothstein - a&r
  • Steve Berkowitz - a&r
  • Harry Coster - engineer [sound restoration]
  • Brian Priestley - liner notes
  • Darcy Proper - mastered by
  • Elmer Schoebel - written-by
  • George Lottman - written-by
  • Irving Mills - written-by
  • Gene Rodemich - written-by
  • Larry Conley - written-by
  • Charlie Davis - written-by
  • Walter Melrose - written-by
  • King Oliver - written-by
  • Mel Stitzel - written-by
  • Eddie Edwards - written-by
  • Henry Ragas - written-by
  • Larry Shields - written-by
  • Nick LaRocca - written-by
  • Tony Sbarbaro - written-by
  • Alcide Nunez - written-by
  • Marvin Lee - written-by
  • Ray Lopez - written-by
  • Charles Fulcher - written-by
  • Nat Leslie - arranged by
  • Jack Palmer - written-by
  • E.Y. Harburg - written-by
  • Milton Ager - written-by
  • Jelly Roll Morton - written-by
  • Jack Yellen - written-by
  • Andy Razaf - written-by
  • Fats Waller - written-by
  • Fred Rose - written-by

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