The Guardian's History of Modern Music: Jazz

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The Guardian's History of Modern Music: Jazz

by MOG Mixes on June 23, 2011

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Mapping out the musical history of any genre is a tricky task, but it didn't stop UK publication the Guardian from giving it a shot. In one of seven massive playlists, they trace the history of jaz music from Scott Joplin to Esperanza Spalding.

SONG		LYRICS	SAVE
PLAY	The Entertainer by Scott Joplin
PLAY	Livery Stable Blues by Original Dixieland Jazz Band
PLAY	Black Bottom Stomp (Remaste... by Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot...
PLAY	See See Rider Blues by Ma Rainey
PLAY	Cold In Hand Blues (With Be... by Louis Armstrong
PLAY	Creole Love Call by Duke Ellington
PLAY	West End Blues by Louis Armstrong
PLAY	Characteristic Blues by Sidney Bechet
PLAY	Taxi War Dance by Count Basie
PLAY	Tea For Two by Art Tatum
PLAY	Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday
PLAY	Body And Soul by Coleman Hawkins
PLAY	Harlem Air Shaft by Duke Ellington
PLAY	All Of Me by Billie Holiday
PLAY	Solo Flight (78 Rpm Version) by Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
PLAY	Nuages by Django Reinhardt
PLAY	Koko by Charlie Parker
PLAY	Scrapple From The Apple (Wi... by Miles Davis
PLAY	Manteca (1994 Remastered) by Dizzy Gillespie
PLAY	Parker's Mood by Charlie Parker
PLAY	Birth Of The Cool Theme by Miles Davis
PLAY	Requiem by Lennie Tristano
PLAY	Walkin' Shoes by Chet Baker
PLAY	Django by The Modern Jazz Quartet
PLAY	Donna Lee by Lee Konitz
PLAY	Diminuendo And Crescendo In... by Duke Ellington
PLAY	Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk
PLAY	Blue 7 by Sonny Rollins
PLAY	Bad Penny Blues by Humphrey Lyttelton
PLAY	Concerto For Billy The Kid by Bill Evans
PLAY	A Night In Tunisia by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messe...
PLAY	After Hours by Jimmy Smith
PLAY	So What by Miles Davis
PLAY	Lonely Woman by Ornette Coleman
PLAY	Giant Steps by John Coltrane
PLAY	Take Five by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
PLAY	Killer Joe by Benny Golson
PLAY	Airegin by Wes Montgomery
PLAY	Mack The Knife by Ella Fitzgerald
PLAY	Solar by Bill Evans Trio
PLAY	D Trad, That's What by Cecil Taylor
PLAY	Watermelon Man by Herbie Hancock
PLAY	The Girl From Ipanema by Stan Getz
PLAY	Medley: Mode D-Trio and Gro... by Charles Mingus
PLAY	Hat And Beard by Eric Dolphy
PLAY	Refuge by Andrew Hill
PLAY	Ghosts by Albert Ayler
PLAY	Las Vegas Tango by Gil Evans
PLAY	Footprints by Miles Davis
PLAY	Indian Lady by The Don Ellis Orchestra
PLAY	Blood Count by Duke Ellington & His Famous...
PLAY	Machine Gun by The Peter Brötzmann Octet
PLAY	Miles Runs The Voodoo Down by Miles Davis
PLAY	War Orphans by Charlie Haden
PLAY	Universal Consciousness by Alice Coltrane
PLAY	Mra by The Chris McGregor Group
PLAY	Return To Forever by Chick Corea
PLAY	Tintinyana by Abdullah Ibrahim
PLAY	Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit by McCoy Tyner
PLAY	The Köln Concert (Part I) by Keith Jarrett
PLAY	Are You Going With Me? by Pat Metheny
PLAY	Rockit by Herbie Hancock
PLAY	Much Later by Wynton Marsalis
PLAY	Song X Duo by Pat Metheny
PLAY	Shobharock by Trilok Gurtu
PLAY	Since You Asked by John Scofield
PLAY	Nicolette by Kenny Wheeler
PLAY	Svantetic by Tomasz Stanko
PLAY	Peel Me A Grape by Diana Krall
PLAY	Dodge The Dodo by E.S.T. Esbjörn Svensson Trio
PLAY	Smells Like Teen Spirit by The Bad Plus
PLAY	Saltwater (Scott Walker Mix) by Acoustic Ladyland
PLAY	Fall In by Esperanza Spalding
PLAY	No Neighborhood Rough Enough by Steve Lehman Octet
PLAY	Think Of One by Robert Glasper
PLAY	Confessions To My Unborn Da... by Ambrose Akinmusire

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