The Best of Ken Burns Jazz

Product description Ken Burns:jazz Best Of:- Artist: Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Noble Sissle, Frankie Trumbauer, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Genre: Jazz Music, Media Type: Compact Disk Amazon.com Ken Burns, America's premier documentary filmmaker, scores another hit with his landmark 10-part, 19-hour PBS documentary, Jazz. This sampler is a smaller version of the accompanying five-CD box set, with 22 selections spanning the music's many styles: from 's 1938 classic rendition of "King Porter Stomp" to 's immortal "Giant Steps." and form a sweeping spectrum of jazz singing with their varying styles. and 's "Groovin' High," 's riff blues "'Straight, No Chaser," and 's modal masterpiece "So What" are among the music's "greatest hits" compiled here. 's down-home treatment of 's "Star Dust" and Duke Ellington's rousing "Cotton Tail" show why they are the alpha and the omega of this music. Although the documentary and the sampler omit the avant-garde and Latin jazz, this is, overall, good one-stop shopping for those just getting in the groove. --Eugene Holley Jr.