What is it about big bands which explains their enduring appeal American writer Gene Lees described their characteristic sound as one that will not go away. And Count Basie; Chick Webb; Louis Armstrong; Joe Venuti; Bob Crosby and so many more; will never go away.
1. Count Basie - Sent For You Yesterday
2. Jack Teagarden - Chicks Is Wonderful
3. Benny Carter - These Foolish Things
4. Chick Webb - When I Get Low I Get High
5. Benny Goodman - Christopher Columbus
6. Louis Armstrong - I Never Knew
7. Joe Venuti - Flop
8. Duke Ellington - Take The A Train
9. Harry James - Strictly Instrumental
10. Jimmy Dorsey - All Of Me
11. Bunny Berigan - The Prisoner's Song
12. Bob Crosby - Barrelhouse Bessie From Basin Street
13. Jimmie Lunceford - My Blue Heaven
14. Glenn Miller - A String Of Pearls
15. Cab Calloway - Run Little Rabbit
16. Woody Herman - Twin City Blues
17. Ted Weems - I Wonder Whos Kissing Her Now?
18. Tommy Dorsey - Stop, Look And Listen
19. Frankie Trumbauer - I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music
20. Casa Loma Orchestra - A Study In Brown
21. Artie Shaw - Deep Purple
22. Gene Krupa - Drummin Man
23. Lionel Hampton - Nola