Jazz, Vol. 4: Jazz Singers
Various Artists

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
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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 (medley) | Ivy Anderson | 8:49 | |
102
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Organ Grinder's Swing | Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight | 2:55 | |
103
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Don't You Miss Your Baby? | Jimmy Rushing with the Count Basie Orchestra | 3:14 | |
104
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Keep a Knockin' / Jingle Bells / Oopapada / Sugar (medley) | Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra | 3:32 | |
105
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I Can't Give You Anything But Love | Fats Waller and Una Mae Carlisle | 2:57 | |
201
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A Good Man is Hard to Find | Bessie Smith | 3:05 | |
202
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You Gotta Have That Thing | Dallas Jug Band | 2:49 | |
203
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Traveling Blues | Ma Rainey | 2:59 | |
204
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Strut That Thing | Cripple Clarence Lofton | 2:59 | |
205
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Trouble in Mind | Bertha Chippie Hill | 2:53 | |
206
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Jitterbug | Champion Jack Dupree | 2:17 | |
207
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Fox Chase | Sonny Terry | 2:18 |