The Kennedy Center ArtsEdge interactive presentation JAZZ IN TIME provides an excellent introduction to the eras and styles of jazz. Listening samples include:
“Black Bottom Stomp” by Jelly Roll Morton
“St. Louis Blues” by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong
“Ballin’ The Jack” by James Reese Europe
“Canal Street Blues” by King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
“Wild Man Blues” by Johnny Dodds and his Chicago Boys
“You’ve Got to Be Modernistic” by James P. Johnson
“Heebie Jeebies” by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Fives
“Lester Leaps In” by Lester Young
“It Don’t mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” by Duke Ellington
“Bebop” by Dizzy Gillespie
“Moanin’” by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
“Boplicity” by Miles Davis
“Eventually” by Ornette Coleman
“A Love Supreme” by John Coltrane
“I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel To Be Free” by Billy Taylor
“Sly” by Herbie Hancock
“Cantaloupe (Flip Fantasia)” by Us3
