Episode 1 | Episode 2 | Episode 3 | Episode 4 | Episode 5 Episode 6 | Episode 7 | Episode 8 | Episode 9 | Episode 10 Episode 5 - By Artist Louis Armstrong Song Title: Public Melody Number 1 Written By: Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler Year Recorded: 1937 Archival film: From the feature film Artists and Models Song Title: Blue Again Written By: Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh Year Recorded: 1931 Label: Columbia/Legacy Song Title: I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Little Rascal, You Written By: Sam Theard Year Recorded: 1932 Song Title: Shine Written By: Lou Brown, Cecil Mack, Ford Dabney Year Recorded: 1932 Archival film: Excerpt taken from the film short Rhapsody in Black and Blue Song Title: Sobbin' Hearted Blues Written By: Bradford, Layer, Davis Year Recorded: 1925 Label: Columbia/Legacy Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra Song Title: Cherokee Written By: Ray Noble Year Recorded: 1939 Label: Smithsonian (The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment) Count Basie and His Orchestra Song Title: Jumpin' at the Woodside Written By: William Count Basie Year Recorded: 1938 Label: Decca Records (The Verve Music Group) Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, featuring Chu Berry Song Title: Queen Isabella Written By: Joseph M. Davis, Paul Denniker Year Recorded: 1937 Label: Columbia/Legacy Larry Clinton and His Orchestra Song Title: Smiles Written By: J. Will Callahan, Lee G. Roberts Year Recorded: 1943 Archival film: From the "soundie" Larry Clinton and His Orchestra Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra Song Title: Song of India Written By: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff arranged by Tommy Dorsey, Red Bone Year Recorded: 1941 Archival film: From the feature film Las Vegas Nights Song Title: Well, Git It! Written By: Sy Oliver Year Recorded: 1942 Label: The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment Duke Ellington Song Title: Creole Rhapsody Written By: Duke Ellington Year Recorded: 1935 Archival film: From the short film Paramount Pictorial Song Title: Saddest Tale (Lost My Man Blues) Written By: Edward Kennedy Ellington Year Recorded: 1935 Archival film: From the musical short Symphony in Black Song Title: Single Petal of a Rose Written By: Edward Kennedy Ellington Year Recorded: 1959 Label: The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment Song Title: Stepping into Swing Society Written By: Edward Kennedy Ellington, Irving Mills, Henry Nemo Year Recorded: 1938 Label: Classics Records (Columbia/Legacy) Song Title: Symphony in Black Written By: Edward Kennedy Ellington Year Recorded: 1935 Archival film: From the musical short Symphony in Black Song Title: Unidentified piece "Dreaming" Written By: Edward Kennedy Ellington Year Recorded: 1965 Archival film: From a CBC interview with Duke Ellington Song Title: Truckin' Written By: Ted Koehler, Rube Bloom Year Recorded: 1935 Label: Classics Records (Columbia/Legacy) Song Title: Tough Truckin' Written By: Edward Kennedy Ellington, Irving Mills Year Recorded: 1935 Label: Classics Records (Columbia/Legacy) Song Title: Jeep's Blues Written By: Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges Year Recorded: 1938 Label: Columbia/Legacy Teese Gohl Song Title: Humoresque Written By: Antonin Dvorak Label: Recorded for the Jazz Film Project, Inc. Benny Goodman Song Title: Avalon Written By: Richard Rose, Al Jolson, B.G. De Sylva Year Recorded: 1937 Archival film: From the short film For Auld Lang Syne Song Title: Blue Skies Written By: Irving Berlin Year Recorded: 1935 Label: The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment Song Title: Don't Be That Way Written By: Edgar Sampson, Benny Goodman Year Recorded: 1938 Label: Columbia/Legacy Song Title: Ridin' High Written By: Cole Porter Year Recorded: 1937 Label: Smithsonian (The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment) Song Title: (You Got Me In Between) The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Written By: Ted Kohler, Harold Arlen Year Recorded: 1935 Label: Classics Records (The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment) Song Title: Clouds Written By: Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson Year Recorded: 1935 Label: Columbia/Legacy Song Title: Sing Sing Sing (with a Swing) Written By: Louis Prima Year Recorded: 1937 Label: Smithsonian (The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment) Song Title: Sing, Sing, Sing Written By: Louis Prima Year Recorded: 1937 Archival film: From the feature film Hollywood Hotel Song Title: Sing, Sing, Sing Written By: Louis Prima Year Recorded: 1937 Label: Smithsonian (The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment) Song Title: Stompin' at the Savoy Written By: Edgar Sampson, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, Andy Razaf Year Recorded: 1936 Label: The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment Song Title: Bugle Call Rag Written By: Jack Pettis, Billy Meyers, Elmer Schoebel Year Recorded: 1936 Label: The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment Song Title: I've Got a Heartful of Music Written By: Richard Whiting, Johnny Mercer Year Recorded: 1937 Archival film: From the feature film Hollywood Hotel Song Title: On The Alamo Written By: Isham Jones, Gus Kahn Year Recorded: 1941 Label: Columbia/Legacy Song Title: Body and Soul Written By: Edward Heyman, John W. Green, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton Year Recorded: 1935 Label: Smithsonian (The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment) Song Title: Sweet Leilani (Takin' Leilani Uptown) Written By: Harry Owens Year Recorded: 1937 Label: Columbia/Legacy Song Title: Time On My Hands Written By: Mack Gordon, Vincent Youmans, Harold Adamson Year Recorded: 1937 Label: Columbia/Legacy Song Title: Who Written By: Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern Year Recorded: 1935 Label: The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment Earl Hines and His Orchestra Song Title: Grand Terrace Shuffle Written By: Earl Hines Year Recorded: 1939 Label: Smithsonian (The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment) Johnny Hodges Song Title: Jeep's Blues Written By: Edward Kennedy Ellington, Johnny Hodges Year Recorded: 1938 Label: Columbia/Legacy Song Title: Jeep's Blues Written By: Edward Kennedy Ellington, Johnny Hodges Year Recorded: 1965 Label: Impulse The Verve Music Group Billie Holiday Song Title: Saddest Tale (Lost My Man Blues) Written By: Edward Kennedy Ellington Year Recorded: 1935 Archival film: From the musical short Symphony in Black Song Title: A Fine Romance Written By: Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern Year Recorded: 1936 Label: Columbia/Legacy Song Title: Pennies from Heaven Written By: Johnny Burke, Arthur Johnston Year Recorded: 1936 Label: Columbia/Legacy Jimmy Lunceford and His Orchestra Song Title: Nagasaki Written By: Mort Dixon, Harry Warren Year Recorded: 1936 Archival film: From the musical short Jimmy Lunceford and His Dance Orchestra Glenn Miller and His Orchestra Song Title: I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo Written By: Mack Gordon, Harry Warren Year Recorded: 1942 Archival film: From the feature film Orchestra Wives Artie Shaw and His Orchestra Song Title: Begin the Beguine Written By: Cole Porter Year Recorded: 1938 Archival film: From the musical short Artie Shaw and His Orchestra Song Title: Summertime Written By: George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin Year Recorded: 1945 Label: The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment Bessie Smith Song Title: Sobbin' Hearted Blues Written By: Bradford, Layer, Davis Year Recorded: 1925 Label: Columbia/Legacy Chick Webb Song Title: Don't Be That Way Written By: Edgar Sampson, Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish Year Recorded: 1934 Label: Smithsonian (The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment) Song Title: Harlem Congo Written By: Harry A. White Year Recorded: 1937 Label: Smithsonian (The Verve Music Group) Song Title: Stompin' at the Savoy Written By: Edgar Sampson, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, Andy Razaf Year Recorded: 1934 Label: Smithsonian (The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment) Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra with Billie Holiday Song Title: Pennies from Heaven Written By: Johnny Burke, Arthur Johnston Year Recorded: 1936 Label: Columbia/Legacy Episode 1 | Episode 2 | Episode 3 | Episode 4 | Episode 5 Episode 6 | Episode 7 | Episode 8 | Episode 9 | Episode 10