Album lore

Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America’s Music assembles a sweeping anthology of jazz from its earliest Dixieland strains to bebop and cool jazz refinements. Released by Columbia/Legacy in May 2000, this 94-track compendium draws from a rich lineage of trumpet, saxophone, and swing traditions, presenting artifacts such as “Livery Stable Blues,” “Backwater Blues,” and “Cake Walking Babies (From Home)” in their original 78rpm renditions. The featured “Dear Old Southland” resonates with a wistful trumpet line emblematic of the genre’s Southern roots.Curated to accompany Burns’s documentary series, the set serves as an audio archive for those who treasure the genre’s layered histories rather than its surface gloss. The recordings, drawn from early jazz pioneers through mid-century innovators, offer a textured survey of jazz’s evolving forms. This collection remains a signal resource for crate-diggers and jazz connoisseurs seeking a tangible link to the music’s foundational moments.

Album lore

Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America’s Music assembles a sweeping anthology of jazz from its earliest Dixieland strains to bebop and cool jazz refinements. Released by Columbia/Legacy in May 2000, this 94-track compendium draws from a rich lineage of trumpet, saxophone, and swing traditions, presenting artifacts such as “Livery Stable Blues,” “Backwater Blues,” and “Cake Walking Babies (From Home)” in their original 78rpm renditions. The featured “Dear Old Southland” resonates with a wistful trumpet line emblematic of the genre’s Southern roots.Curated to accompany Burns’s documentary series, the set serves as an audio archive for those who treasure the genre’s layered histories rather than its surface gloss. The recordings, drawn from early jazz pioneers through mid-century innovators, offer a textured survey of jazz’s evolving forms. This collection remains a signal resource for crate-diggers and jazz connoisseurs seeking a tangible link to the music’s foundational moments.