Various Artists - Saga Jazz: Boogie Woogie (Rockin' Roots Tracks and Big Bands Boogie) Vol. 1-2 (2003)

It was early in the Thirties: after emerging from the piano-bars and honky-tonks of Texas, boogie-woogie moved into “rent parties” in Harlem. The fashion had started. Passing jazzmen, converted bluesmen or authentic diehards, the aces of the keyboard here show all the richness of this powerful, obsessional genre that was the most African of piano jazz styles, an essential component of what became rock’n’roll.

Tracklist:
1-1. Albert Ammons - Boogie Woogie Stomp (03:39)
1-2. Cow Cow Davenport - Cow Cow Blues (03:11)
1-3. Pinetop Smith - Jump Steady Blues (03:21)
1-4. Jimmy Yancey - Yancey Limited (03:10)
1-5. Jimmy Yancey - Five O'Clock Blues (02:45)
1-6. Meade Lux Lewis - Honky Tonk Train Blues (02:52)
1-7. Albert Ammons - Suitcase Blues (03:52)
1-8. Clarence "Cripple" Lofton - The Fives (03:10)
1-9. Arthur "Montana" Taylor - Indiana Avenue Stomp (03:29)
1-10. Red Speckled - St Louis Stomp (03:18)
1-11. Little Brother Montgomery - Farish Street Jive (02:36)
1-12. Cleo Brown - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie (02:26)
1-13. Pete Johnson - Basement Boogie (02:56)
1-14. Pete Johnson - Death Ray Boogie (03:01)
1-15. Pete Johnson - Boogie Woogie Man (02:45)
1-16. Hazel Scott - A Rainy Night In G (03:05)
1-17. Big Maceo - Chicago Breakdown (02:56)
1-18. Memphis Slim - Pacemaker Boogie (02:48)
1-19. Piano Red - Red's Boogie (02:26)
1-20. Amos Milburn - Amos Boogie (02:24)
1-21. Cecil Gant - Screwy Boogie (02:40)
1-22. Camille Howard - Fire-Ball Boogie (02:27)
1-23. Sammy Price - Eiffel Tower (02:55)
1-24. Albert Ammons - Swanee River Boogie (02:30)

A piano genre from the entrails of the Black tradition, Boogie Woogie, an irresistible swing machine, here swells to the big band dimension; in the 30s and 40s it became the most popular music in America, and drew the country’s entire youth into the torrid rhythms of Rhythm ‘n Blues and later Rock ‘n’ Roll. The finest war-horses of the greatest orchestras break into a headlong gallop on this compact-disc.

Tracklist:
1-1. Count Basie - Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong) (02:52)
1-2. Tommy Dorsey - (Pinetop's) Boogie Woogie (03:18)
1-3. Benny Goodman - Roll' Em (03:17)
1-4. Andy Kirk - 47th Jive (03:16)
1-5. Erskine Hawkins - Gabriel Meets the Duke (03:08)
1-6. Earl Hines - Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues (02:48)
1-7. Benny Carter - Back Bay Boogie (03:00)
1-8. Bob Crosby - Honky Tonk Train Blues (03:13)
1-9. Bob Crosby - Yancey Special (03:19)
1-10. Bob Zurke - Cuban Boogie Woogie (02:41)
1-11. Count Basie - Basie Boogie (02:27)
1-12. Andy Kirk - Boogie Woogie Cocktail (02:58)
1-13. Lucky Millinder - Little John Special (03:04)
1-14. Will Bradley - Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar - Parts 1 & 2 (05:15)
1-15. Gene Krupa - Drum Boogie (03:09)
1-16. Lionel Hampton - Hamp's Boogie Woogie (03:18)
1-17. Lionel Hampton - Tempo's Boogie (03:10)
1-18. Cab Calloway - The Calloway Boogie (03:07)
1-19. Johnny Otis - Alimony Boogie (03:14)
1-20. Pete Johnson - 1280 Stomp (03:01)
1-21. Lionel Hampton - Hamp's Boogie Woogie No. 2 (03:04)
1-22. Milt Buckner - Milt's Boogie (03:10)
1-23. Wynonie Harris - Rock Mr. Blues (02:43)
1-24. Fats Domino - She's My Baby (02:43)