Tracklist
| 1-1 | –Earl Fuller’s Rector Novelty Orchestra | Pork And Beans | 3:12 |
| 1-2 | –Bessie Smith | Back Water Blues | 3:19 |
| 1-3 | –Clarence Williams' Blue Five | Texas Moaner Blues | 3:15 |
| 1-4 | –Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers | The Chant (Take 3) | 3:14 |
| 1-5 | –King Oliver's Jazz Band | High Society | 2:56 |
| 1-6 | –Louis Armstrong And His Hot Seven* | S.O.L. Blues | 2:55 |
| 1-7 | –The Wolverines Featuring Bix Beiderbecke | The Jazz Me Blues | 2:47 |
| 1-8 | –James P. Johnson* | You've Got To Be Modernistic | 3:15 |
| 1-9 | –Duke Ellington And His Cotton Club Orchestra | The Mooche | 3:31 |
| 1-10 | –Fletcher Henderson | Down South Camp Meeting | 3:02 |
| 1-11 | –Andy Kirk And His Twelve Clouds Of Joy | Mary's Idea | 3:03 |
| 1-12 | –Lester Young And Count Basie | Jones-Smith Inc. | 3:00 |
| 1-13 | –Benny Goodman Quartet* | Avalon | 2:45 |
| 1-14 | –Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra* | Sepia Panorama | 3:24 |
| 1-15 | –Coleman Hawkins And His Orchestra | Ready For Love | 3:00 |
| 1-16 | –Billie Holiday And Eddie Heywood And His Orchestra | All Of Me | 2:59 |
| 1-17 | –Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie Quintet* | Salt Peanuts (Excerpt) | 4:27 |
| 1-18 | –Charlie Parker | Bloomdido | 3:26 |
| 1-19 | –Thelonious Monk Quartet* | Four In One | 3:30 |
| 1-20 | –Miles Davis | Jeru | 3:13 |
| 1-21 | –Art Blakey With Horace Silver | Moanin' | 9:35 |
| 1-22 | –Charles Mingus | Hora Decubitus | 4:41 |
| 2-1 | –Clifford Brown — Max Roach Quintet | Powell's Prances | 3:31 |
| 2-2 | –Albert Ayler ; Gary Peacock ; Sonny Murray* | Ghosts: First Variation | 5:15 |
| 2-3 | –Ornette Coleman | Street Woman | 4:51 |
| 2-4 | –John Coltrane Quartet* | A Love Supreme, Acknowledgement | 7:48 |
| 2-5 | –Miles Davis Quintet* | E.S.P. | 5:30 |
| 2-6 | –Bill Evans | Peri's Scope | 3:14 |
| 2-7 | –Herbie Hancock | Chameleon | 8:15 |
| 2-8 | –Return To Forever Featuring Chick Corea | Light As A Feather | 10:58 |
| 2-9 | –Weather Report | Birdland | 5:59 |
| 2-10 | –Wynton Marsalis | Express Crossing | 5:11 |
| 2-11 | –Grover Washington, Jr. | Summer Nights | 6:14 |
| 2-12 | –Steve Coleman And Five Elements | Salt Peanuts | 3:20 |
| 2-13 | –Tim Hagans | Far West | 6:00 |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
- Manufactured By – Sony Music Special Products
Notes
Issued by Schirmer / Thompson Learning and Sony Music Special Products to accompany the book Jazz: The First 100 Years by Henry Martin and Keith Waters.Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode: 9 780028 654669
- Matrix / Runout (Disc 1): DIDP-104719 3 A02
- Mastering SID Code (Disc 1): IFPI L327
- Mould SID Code (Disc 1): IFPI 5003
- Other (Code printed on Disc 1): A 52506
- Matrix / Runout (Disc 2): DIDP-104720 1 A02
- Mastering SID Code (Disc 2): IFPI L326
- Mould SID Code (Disc 2): IFPI 50EA
- Other (Code printed on Disc 2): A 52507

