Various Artists: The Jazz Age - New York in the Twenties

 

Genre: Jazz

Dates: 1920's

A wonderful soundtrack for any English teacher tackling The Great Gatsby. Essentially, you have small pre-swing bands of hungry white musicians acting out a process Elvis Presley would make more famous in the '50s—expressing their love for African-American rhythm and improvisation by straining to match it. They didn't quite succeed, but the results are glorious to listen to.

Playlist:
1. Davenport Blues
2. Delirium
3.
Slippin' Around
4.
Feelin' No Pain
5.
Harlem Twist
6.
Five Pennies
7.
Waitin' For Katie
8.
Memphis Blues
9.
Singapore Sorrows
10.
Buy Buy For Baby
11. Wang Wang Blues
12.
My Kinda Love
13.
Mean To Me
14. My Kinda Love
15.
Getting Hot
16.
Anything
17.
You Can't Cheat A Cheater
18. Doing Things
19.
Wild Cats
20.
Wild Dog, The
21. Really Blue