All Genres
    Jazz

Jazz Roots: The Music of the Americas

Various Artists

image
Released: Apr 2011
Label: MASTERWORKS JAZZ
Sure, "America's classical music" is a house partially built on African rhythmic foundations, but there's something a bit out-of-tune about kicking off this sprawling overview of the Music of the Americas with Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji while neglecting to include other seminal streams of influence. This Smithsonian compilation, while laudable for its worthy ambition to drill to the essence of a great American genre, emerges as a fairly erratic compilation. Kudos for the Parker, Joplin, Miles and Monk, but including Kenny G and omitting Coltrane gives it a comically flawed aftertaste.
- Nate Cavalieri
Various Artists - Jazz Roots: The Music of the Americas 2011-05-05
Play
Play Album
  • Play
    1
    Options
    2:31
    Akiwowo (Edit)
    Olatunji Yearwood
  • Play
    2
    Options
    3:06
    Livery Stable Blues
    Original Dixieland Jazz Band
  • Play
    3
    Options
    3:14
    West End Blues
    Louis Armstrong
  • Play
    4
    Options
    3:03
    One O'Clock Jump
    Count Basie
  • Play
    5
    Options
    2:54
    Take The "A" Train
    Duke Ellington
  • Play
    6
    Options
    3:51
    Sing, Sing, Sing
    Benny Goodman
  • Play
    7
    Options
    3:32
    In The Mood
    Glenn Miller
  • Play
    8
    Options
    3:25
    Downhearted Blues
    Bessie Smith
  • Play
    9
    Options
    2:54
    God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
  • Play
    10
    Options
    2:42
    Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night Of The Week)
    Frank Sinatra
  • Play
    11
    Options
    3:02
    Taking A Chance On Love/I'm In The Mood For Love (Live)
    Ella Fitzgerald
  • Play
    12
    Options
    3:15
    Black Coffee
    Sarah Vaughan
  • Play
    13
    Options
    2:15
    Cloudburst
    Lambert
  • Play
    14
    Options
    2:22
    Muddy Water
    Aretha Franklin
  • Play
    15
    Options
    4:54
    Ornithology (Edit)
    Charlie Parker
  • Play
    16
    Options
    3:06
    Manteca (Remastered 1998)
    Dizzy Gillespie
  • Play
    17
    Options
    3:27
    Mambo Inn
    Machito
  • Play
    18
    Options
    2:56
    Ran Kan Kan
    Tito Puente
  • Play
    19
    Options
    4:27
    Tu Conga Bach (Conga) (Inspired by the C Minor Fugue, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
    Tiempo Libre
  • Play
    20
    Options
    5:24
    Take Five
    Jo Stafford
  • Play
    21
    Options
    5:10
    Two Bass Hit
    Miles Davis
  • Play
    22
    Options
    9:21
    So What
    Miles Davis
  • Play
    23
    Options
    5:14
    Monk's Dream (Take 3)
    Thelonious Monk
  • Play
    24
    Options
    3:18
    Stone Flower
    Antônio Carlos Jobim (Tom Jobim)
  • Play
    25
    Options
    2:57
    Doralice
    Eliane Elias
  • Play
    26
    Options
    7:33
    Sorceress
    Return to Forever
  • Play
    27
    Options
    5:56
    Birdland
    Weather Report
  • Play
    28
    Options
    4:38
    Funkin' For Jamaica
    Tom Browne
  • Play
    29
    Options
    3:41
    Rockit (Single Version)
    Herbie Hancock
  • Play
    30
    Options
    5:41
    Take Five (Live)
    George Benson
  • Play
    31
    Options
    4:18
    Strawberry Moon
    Grover Washington, Jr.
  • Play
    32
    Options
    6:44
    Phryzzinian Man
    Wynton Marsalis
  • Play
    33
    Options
    3:55
    Songbird
    Kenny G
  • Play
    34
    Options
    4:21
    When I Fall In Love
    Chris Botti
  • Play
    35
    Options
    3:19
    Sweet Georgia Brown
    Eldar
℗ Originally Recorded 1917, 1938, 1944, 1945, 1947 Sony Music Entertainment / Originally Released 1923, 1928, 1941, 1942, 1949, 1950, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1969 Sony Music Entertainment / (P) 1973, 2009 Sony Music Entertainment / (P) 2003 Shout! Factory a/Originally Recorded 1958 Sony Music Entertainment / Originally Released 1958, 1970 Sony Music Entertainment / (P) 1976, 1977, 1983, 1985, 1987, 2002, 2004, 2005 Sony Music Entertainment / (P) 1980, 1986 Arista Records, a unit of Sony Music Entertainm