V.A. - The Story Of Vocal Jazz 1911-1940 [10CD Box Set] (2004)

A chronological history of jazz vocal presented by André Francis and Jean Schwarz. 10 CDs with more than 12 hours of music.
The resulting 2 boxed sets of 10 CDs in each, unlike any other available today, groups together the main vocalists in the story of jazz from the first half of the 20th century. Each of these 20 CDs offers in more or less the same proportion, the purest of African-American song with gospel and blues singers, from truculent Ma Rainey to majestic Bessie Smith, sophisticated Sarah Vaughan to popular Louis Prima, the folk-related tones of Charlie Patton to the honeyed voice of Frank Sinatra.

Tracklist:
01. Sophie Tucker - Some of These Days [1911] (4:13)
02. Fisk University Jubilee Quartet - Roll Jordan Roll [1913] (2:41)
03. Marion Harris - After You've Gone [1918] (3:17)
04. Mamie Smith - Crazy Blues [1920] (3:28)
05. Bessie Smith - Down Hearted Blues [1923] (3:27)
06. Ida Cox - I've Got the Blues for Rampart Street [1923] (2:48)
07. Bessie Smith - Graveyard Dream Blues [1923] (2:46)
08. Esther Bijeou - West Indies Blues [1923] (2:47)
09. Ida Cox - Blues Ain't Nothin' Else But! [1924] (3:13)
10. Bessie Smith - Boweavil Blues [1924] (2:53)
11. Bessie Smith - Weeping Willow Blues [1924] (3:11)
12. Alberta Hunter - Nobody Knows the Way I Feel Dis Mornin' [1924] (2:50)
13. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Black Snake Moan [1925] (2:55)
14. Eva Taylor - Cake Walking Babies from Home [1925] (3:02)
15. Ethel Waters - Sweet Georgia Brown [1925] (3:10)
16. Bessie Smith - Soft Pedal Blues [1925] (3:21)
17. Bessie Smith - Careless Love [1925] (3:28)
18. Ethel Waters - Shake That Thing [1925] (3:12)
19. Blind Blake - Too Tight Blues [1926] (2:56)
20. Paul Robeson - Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child [1926] (3:02)
21. Fred & Adele Astaire - Fascinating Rhythm [1926] (2:24)
22. Reverend J.M. Gates - Death's Black Train Is Comin' [1926] (3:03)
23. Bessie Smith & Her Blue Boys - Young Woman Blues [1926] (3:10)
24. Bertha 'Chippie' Hill - Pratt City Blues [1926] (2:55)
25. Lonnie Johnson - Mean Old Bedbug Blues [1927] (2:54)

Total time: 01:17:19





Tracklist:
01. Blind Willie Johnson - It's Nobody's Fault but Mine [1927] (3:11)
02. Bessie Smith - Back Water Blues [1927] (3:20)
03. Bessie Smith - Alexander's Ragtime Band [1927] (3:01)
04. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Match Box Blues [1927] (3:02)
05. Sippie Wallace - Dead Drunk Blues [1927] (3:01)
06. Adelaide Hall with Duke Ellington & HO - The Blues I Love to Sing [1927] (3:12)
07. Bessie Smith - Dyin' by the Hour [1927] (3:00)
08. Bessie Smith - Foolish Man Blues [1927] (2:56)
09. Victoria Spivey - Dope Head Blues [1927] (3:16)
10. Helen Humes - Cross Eyed Blues [1927] (3:09)
11. Marion Harris - The Man I Love [1927] (3:23)
12. Louis Armstrong - Hotter than That [1927] (3:05)
13. Hattie McDaniels - I Thought I'd Do It [1927] (2:58)
14. Jimmie Rodgers - Waiting for a Train [1928] (2:46)
15. Mississippi John Hurt - Ain't No Tellin' [1928] (2:57)
16. Rev. Johnny Blakey - Warming by the Devil's Fire [1928] (3:27)
17. Blind Willie Davis - When the Saints Go Marching In [1928] (1:57)
18. Memphis Jug Band - Peaches in the Springtime [1928] (3:15)
19. Bessie Smith - Empty Bed Blues, Part 2 [1928] (3:22)
20. Rube Lacy - Mississippi Jail House Blues [1928] (3:23)
21. Henry Williams & Eddie Anthony - Georgia Crawl [1928] (3:22)
22. Ma Rainey - Prove It on Me Blues [1928] (2:42)
23. Arizona Dranes - God's Got a Crown [1928] (2:59)
24. Ivy Smith with Cow Cow Davenport - State Street Jive [1928] (3:04)
25. Ethel Waters - Guess Who's in Town [1928] (2:50)

Total time: 01:16:53





Tracklist:
01. Walter 'Furry' Lewis - Kassie Jones [1928-08-28] (3:07)
02. Bertha 'Chippie' Hill - Some Cold Rainy Day [1928-10-13] (3:15)
03. Noah Lewis - Viola Lee Blues [1928] (3:09)
04. Texas Alexander - No More Woman Blues [1928] (3:03)
05. Ozie Ware & Irving Mills - Diga Diga Doo [1928-11-15] (2:55)
06. Louis Armstrong - Basin Street Blues [1928-12-04] (3:20)
07. Charley Patton - Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues [1929] (3:04)
08. Memphis Minnie - Bumble Bee [1929] (2:48)
09. Blind Blake - Georgia Bound [1929] (3:23)
10. Sonny Greer - Sloppy Joe [1929-03-07] (3:16)
11. Jabbo Smith - Decatur Street Tutti [1929-04-04] (2:46)
12. McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Beadle-Um-Bum [1929-04-09] (3:21)
13. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Mosquito Man [1929] (3:01)
14. Bessie Smith - Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out [1929-05-15] (2:59)
15. Louis Armstrong - Black and Blue [1929-07-22] (3:10)
16. T-Bone Walker - Wichita Falls Blues [1929] (3:12)
17. Noble Sissle - Camp Meeting Day [1929-09-10] (3:01)
18. Edith Johnson - Nickel's Worth of Liver Blues [1929-09-27] (2:49)
19. Bessie Smith - Blue Spirit Blues [1929-10-11] (2:56)
20. Georgia Tom Dorsey - Come On Mama [1929] (2:50)
21. Bing Crosby - After You've Gone [1929-10-18] (3:04)
22. Blind Willie McTell - Travelin' Blues [1929-10-30] (3:21)
23. Louis Armstrong - St. Louis Blues [1929-12-13] (3:03)
24. Sleepy John Estes - Milk Cow Blues [1930] (3:03)
25. DunHam Jubilee Singers - I Dreamed of the Judgment Morning [1930] (2:41)

Total time: 01:16:52





Tracklist:
01. Fred Astaire - Puttin' On The Ritz (1930-03-26) (2:34)
02. Bessie Smith - On Revival Day (1930-06-09) (2:58)
03. George Thomas With McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Baby Won't You Please Come Home (1930-07-28) (3:14)
04. Hall Johnson - Good News (1930-08-08) (1:17)
05. Ethel Waters - I Got Rhythm (1930-11-18) (3:09)
06. Bumble Bee Slim - No Woman No Nickel (1931) (3:31)
07. Louis Armstrong And His Sebastian New Cotton Orchestra - Shine (1931-03-09) (3:26)
08. Bessie Smith - Shipwreck Blues (1931-06-11) (3:24)
09. George Morton And Mill's Blue Rhythm Band - Heebie Jeebies (1931-06-26) (3:12)
10. The Boswell Sisters - It's The Girl (1931-07-08) (3:12)
11. Rosa Henderson - Can't Be Bothered With No Sheik (1931-08-19) (3:20)
12. Louis Armstrong - Stardust (1931-11-04) (3:36)
13. Bessie Smith - Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl (1931-11-20) (2:49)
14. Mildred Bailey - Georgia On My Mind (1931-11-24) (3:30)
15. Big Bill Broonzy - Too-Too Train (1932) (2:54)
16. Leroy Carr - How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone (1932) (2:54)
17. Ivie Anderson - It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Git That Swing (1932-02-02) (3:11)
18. Harlan Lattimore - I Wanna Count Sheep (1932-03-10) (3:04)
19. Bing Crosby - Some Of These Days (1932-05-26) (2:36)
20. Josh White - Little Brother Blues (1932) (3:02)
21. Mildred Bailey And The Matty Malneck Orchestra - Rockin' Chair (1932-08-18) (3:02)
22. Irene Taylor - Willow Weep For Me (1932-09-26) (3:27)
23. Bing Crosby And The Mill Brothers - My Honey's Lovin' Arms (1933-01-26) (3:00)
24. Lee Wiley And The Dorsey's Brother Orchestra - I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues (1933-03-07) (2:46)
25. Ethel Waters And The Dorsey's Brother Orchestra - Stormy Weather (1933-05-03) (3:05)

Total time: 01:16:24





Tracklist:
01. Connie Boswell And The Dorsey's Brothers Orchestra - The River's Taking Care (1933-06-15) (3:00)
02. Henri 'Red' Allen - Nagasaki (1933-09-22) (3:29)
03. Louis Bacon - Rude Interlude (1933-09-26) (3:12)
04. Jack Teagarden - I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues (1933-10-18) (3:08)
05. Cab Calloway - Zah Zuh Zah (1933-11-02) (3:27)
06. Jack Teagarden - Love Me (1933-11-11) (3:04)
07. The Spirits Of Rhythm - Rhythm (1933-11-20) (2:30)
08. Bessie Smith - Take Me For A Buggy Ride (1933-11-24) (2:38)
09. Tampa Red - King Fish Blues (1934) (3:11)
10. Kokomo Arnold - Old Original Kokomo Blues (1934) (2:55)
11. Charley Patton - Stone Pony Blues (1934-01-30) (2:48)
12. Mitchell's Christian Singers - Them Bones (1934) (3:02)
13. Ivie Anderson - Troubled Waters (1934-03-09) (3:32)
14. Red McKenzie With The Spirits Of Rhythm - As Long As I Live (1934-09-11) (3:13)
15. The Spirits Of Rhythm - Dr. Wattson And Mr. Holmes (1934-09-14) (2:44)
16. Leroy Carr - Blues Before Sunrise (1934) (3:34)
17. Charlie McCoy - Baltimore Blues (1934-09-16) (2:50)
18. Billie Holiday - Symphony In Black (1934-10) (1:57)
19. The Carter Family - Wildwood Flower (1935) (3:18)
20. Memphis Minnie - Dirty Mother For You (1935) (2:49)
21. Leadbelly - Midnight Special (1935) (2:09)
22. Leadbelly - See See Rider (1935) (2:58)
23. Heavenly Gospel Singers - Lead Me To The Rock (1935) (2:50)

Total time: 01:08:29





Tracklist:
01. Dixie Rhythm - The Four Blackbirds (1935) (2:35)
02. Valaida Snow - I Can't Dance, I've Got Ants In My Pants (1935-01-19) (2:44)
03. Cab Calloway - I Ain't Got Nobody (1935-07-02) (3:04)
04. Sleepy John Estes - Down South Blues (1935) (3:09)
05. Georgia White - Honey Dripper Blues (1935-07-15) (3:09)
06. Billie Holiday - I'm Painting The Town Red (1935-07-31) (3:00)
07. Frances Langford And The Mahlon Merrick Orchestra - I Feel A Song Comin' On (1935-07-31) (3:02)
08. Walter Davis - Ashes In My Whisky (1935) (2:35)
09. Fats Waller - Truckin' (1935-08-07) (3:21)
10. Blind Boy Fuller - My Brown Skin Sugar Plum (1935) (3:02)
11. Louis Armstrong - I'm In The Mood For Love (1935-10-03) (3:11)
12. Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues (1936) (2:41)
13. Robert Johnson - Ramblin' On My Mind (1936) (2:53)
14. Memphis Minnie - Hoodoo Lady (1936) (3:05)
15. Lil Johnson - That Bonus That Done Gone Thru (1936-02-12) (3:03)
16. Bill Casey - W.P.A. Blues (1936-02-12) (3:17)
17. Ella Fitzgerald - All My Life (1936-03-17) (3:15)
18. Kid Prince Moore - South Bound Blues (1936) (3:03)
19. Billie Holiday - These Foolish Things (1936-06-30) (3:20)
20. Billie Holiday And Her Orchestra - Billie's Blues (1936-07-10) (2:41)
21. Ella Fitzgerald - Mr Paganini You'll Have To Swing It (1936-10-29) (2:56)
22. Midge Williams - Where The Lazy River Goes By (1936-12-16) (2:52)
23. Lonnie Johnson - Flood Water (1937) (2:44)
24. Washboard Sam - The Big Boat (1937) (3:04)
25. Golden Gate Quartet - Golden Gate Gospel Train (1937) (2:36)

Total time: 01:14:34





Tracklist:
01. Norfolk Jubilee Quartet - Didn't It Rain (1937) (3:17)
02. Mildred Bailey - Smoke Dreams (1937-01-08) (3:07)
03. Gladys Palmer - Where The Lazy River Goes By (1937-01-28) (2:35)
04. Duke Ellington - I've Got To Be A Rug Cutter (1937-03) (2:02)
05. Ivie Anderson & Rex Stewart - I've Got To Be A Rug Cutter (1937-03-05) (2:35)
06. Blind Boy Fuller - Pistol Slapper Blues (1937) (2:42)
07. Ella Fitzgerald - You Showed Me The Way (1937-03-24) (3:22)
08. The Mills Brothers & Louis Armstrong - Darling Nelly Gray (1937-04-07) (2:45)
09. Merline Johnson - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor (1937-05-04) (2:53)
10. Billie Holiday - Mean To Me (1937-05-11) (3:08)
11. Bukka White - Shake'em On Down (1937) (2:59)
12. Mahalia Jackson - Keep Me Every Day (1937-05-21) (2:47)
13. Jimmy Rushing - Good Morning Blues (1937-08-09) (3:07)
14. Edythe Wright & Tommy Dorsey And His Clambake Seven - Nice Work If You Can Get It (1937-10-14) (2:23)
15. Maxine Sullivan - The Folks Who Live On The Hill (1937-10-22) (3:04)
16. Billie Holiday - My Man (1937-11-01) (3:04)
17. Ella Fitzgerald - I Want To Be Happy (1937-11-02) (4:32)
18. The Andrew Sisters - Bei Mir Biste Schon (1937-11-24) (3:09)
19. The Mills Brothers - Tiger Rag (1938) (1:50)
20. Peetie Wheatstraw - What More Can A Man Do? (1938) (3:05)
21. Golden State Quartet - Sweet Adeline (1938) (2:24)
22. Billie Holiday - Now They Call It Swing (1938-01-12) (3:07)
23. Jimmy Rushing - Sent For You Yesterday (1938-02-16) (2:59)
24. Jazz Gillum - Mule Blues (1938) (3:16)
25. Slim & Slam - Chinatown My Chinatown (1938-02-17) (2:42)
26. Rosetta Howard - How Long Baby Will You Keep Me This Way (1938-04-21) (2:23)

Total time: 01:15:30





Tracklist:
01. Billie Holiday - You Go to My Head [1938-05-11] (2:52)
02. Sonny Boy Williamson I - Goodbye Red [1938] (3:12)
03. Louis Armstrong - Shadrack [1938-06-14] (2:33)
04. Louis Armstrong - Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen [1938-06-14] (3:10)
05. Tiny Mayberry - Mailman Blues [1938-07-20] (3:06)
06. Nan Wynn with Teddy Wilson - Laugh and Call It Love [1938-07-29] (2:57)
07. Yank Rachell - When You Feel Down [1938] (3:17)
08. Bea Wain with Larry Carlton - At Long Last Love [1938-08-01] (2:54)
09. Fats Waller - Two Sleepy People [1938-10-13] (3:06)
10. Georgia White - The Blues Ain't Nothin' But… [1938-10-21] (2:41)
11. Marian Anderson - Deep River [1938-11] (3:13)
12. Marian Anderson - Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child [1938-11] (3:21)
13. Big Joe Turner - Roll 'Em Pete [1938-12-30] (2:52)
14. Leadbelly - Bourgeois Blues [1939] (5:36)
15. Selah Jubilee Singers - I Want Jesus to Walk Around My Bedside [1939] (3:21)
16. Trummy Young with Jimmie Lunceford - 'Tain't What You Do [1939-01-03] (3:06)
17. Helen Humes with Count Basie - My Heart Belongs to Daddy [1939-01-05] (2:58)
18. Louis Armstrong - Jeepers Creepers [1939-01-18] (2:38)
19. Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson - More than You Know [1939-01-30] (3:09)
20. Jimmy Rushing with Count Basie - Goin' to Chicago Blues [1939-02-13] (3:22)
21. Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb - Undecided [1939-02-17] (3:18)
22. Jean Eldridge with Johnny Hodges - Mississippi Dream Boat [1939-02-27] (2:39)
23. Cootie Williams & His Rug Cutters - She's Gone [1939-02-28] (3:04)
24. Helen Ward with Gene Krupa - Mutiny in the Parlor [1939-02-29] (3:01)

Total time: 01:15:39





Tracklist:
01. Pha Terrell - You Set Me On Fire (1939-03-16) (2:56)
02. Helen Humes - If I Could Be With You (1939-03-19) (3:00)
03. Billie Holiday - Long Gone Blues (1939-03-21) (3:09)
04. Ivie Anderson - Something To Live For (1939-03-21) (2:49)
05. Billie Holiday - Fine And Mellow (1939-04-20) (3:19)
06. Ella Fitzgerald - Have Mercy (1939-03-21) (3:10)
07. Big Bill Broonzy - Too Many Drivers (1939-05-11) (2:38)
08. Jimmy Rushing - Nobody Knows (1939-05-19) (2:49)
09. The Quintones & Barney Bigard - Utt-Da-Zay (1939-06-08) (2:51)
10. Ivie Anderson - I'm Checkin' Out Go'om Bye (1939-0612) (2:30)
11. Fats Waller - Honeysuckle Rose (1939-08-02) (3:20)
12. Helen Forrest - Day In, Day Out (1939-08-27) (3:37)
13. Frank Sinatra - All Or Nothing At All (1939-08-31) (3:00)
14. Trummy Young - Think Of Me Little Lady (1939-09-14) (2:46)
15. Martha Raye - Body And Soul (1939-09-17) (2:58)
16. Ethel Waters - Baby What Else Can I Do (1939-09-22) (3:01)
17. Ida Cox - Death Letter Blues (1939-10-31) (3:10)
18. Fats Waller - Your Feet's Too Big (1939-11-03) (3:08)
19. Hazel Scott - Mighty Like The Blues (1939-12-01) (2:55)
20. Billie Holiday - The Man I Love (1939-12-13) (3:07)
21. Ida Cox - 'Fore Day Creep (1939-12-24) (3:26)
22. Bukka White - Parchman Farm (1940) (2:38)
23. Leadbelly - Good Morning Blues (1940) (2:54)
24. Blind Gary Davis - Cross And Evil Blues (1940) (3:04)
25. Charioteers - Wade In The Water (1940) (2:43)

Total time: 01:15:11





Tracklist:
01. Charioteers - Ezechiel Saw The Wheel (1940) (2:44)
02. Lee Wiley - A Ship WIthout A Sail (1940-02) (3:26)
03. Faber Smith - East St. Louis Blues (1940-02-23) (2:51)
04. Viola Jefferson - I Got Rhythm (1940-02-27) (2:32)
05. Billie Holiday - Body And Soul (1940-02-29) (2:58)
06. Champion Jack Dupree - New Long Down Dog (1940) (3:00)
07. Shirley Ross - It Never Entered My Mind (1940-03-02) (3:12)
08. Maxine Sullivan - The Hour Of Parting (1940-05-01) (2:50)
09. T-Bone Walker - T-Bone Blues (1940-06) (3:18)
10. Alberta Hunter - My Castle's Rockin' (1940-06-03) (2:34)
11. Josh White - Trouble (1940) (3:21)
12. Billie Holiday - Laughing At Life (1940-06-07) (2:58)
13. Valaida Snow - You're Driving Me Crazy (1940-07-26) (2:22)
14. Jimmy Rushing - I Want A Little Girl (1940-08-08) (2:40)
15. Sammy Price - The Dirty Dozens (1940-09-26) (2:36)
16. Big Joe Turner - Piney Brown Blues (1940-11-11) (2:57)
17. Frank Sinatra - Stardust (1940-11-11) (3:15)
18. Sonny Boy Williamson 1 - War Time Blues (1940) (2:58)
19. Helen Forrest - The Man I Love (1940-11-13) (3:52)
20. Jazz Gillum - Key To The Highway (1940) (2:42)
21. Nat King Cole - Sweet Lorraine (1940-12-06) (2:57)
22. Helen Ward - Embraceable You (1940-12-09) (3:18)
23. Golden Gate Quartet - Blind Barnabus (1941) (2:10)
24. Son House - Delta Blues (1941) (2:27)
25. Memphis Minnie - Me And My Chauffeur (1941) (2:48)
26. Golden Gate Quartet - Jezebel (1941) (2:47)

Total time: 01:15:47



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