Jazz, Vol. 4: Jazz Singers

Here is a sampling of some of the most active jazz vocalists of the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s: Louis Armstrong, Ivy Anderson, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Bessie Smith, Sonny Terry and Ma Rainey. They are backed by equally big-time instrumentalists: Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Dorsey, Count Basie and Bix Beiderbecke who, according to legend, threw a week’s pay on the floor the first night he heard Bessie Smith, hoping her singing would never end.

Track Listing

101	All of Me / The Mooche / Margie / Louisiana / Baby Won’t You Please Come Home? / It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing / Doctor Jazz	Louis Armstrong, Baby Cox, Cab Calloway, Bing Crosby, George Thomas, Ivy Anderson, Jelly Roll Morton	08:49
102	Organ Grinder's Swing	Ella Fitzgerald	02:55
103	Don't You Miss Your Baby?	Jimmy Rushing	03:14
104	Keep a Knockin' / Jingle Bells / Oopapada / Sugar	Hellen O'Connell, Leo Watson, Dizzy Gillespie, Ken Hagood, Billie Holiday	03:32
105	I Can’t Give You Anything but Love	Fats Waller, Una Mae Carlisle	02:57
201	A Good Man Is Hard to Find	Bessie Smith	03:05
202	You Gotta Have That Thing	Dallas Jug Band	02:49
203	Traveling Blues	Ma Rainey	02:59
204	Strut That Thing	Cripple Clarence Lofton	02:59
205	Trouble in Mind	Bertha Chippie Hill	02:53
206	Jitterbug	Champion Jack Dupree	02:17
207	Fox Chase	Sonny Terry	02:18