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Release Date

April 6, 2004

Duration

01:42:23

Genre

Jazz

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Modern Big Band

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BBC Big Band

Best of Big Band

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Track Listing - Disc 1

	Sample		Title/Composer	Performer	Time
		1	Chattanooga Choo Choo Mack Gordon / Harry Warren	BBC Big Band	4:54
		2	Sing, Sing, Sing Louis Prima	BBC Big Band	7:41
		3	In the Mood Joe Garland / Glenn Miller	BBC Big Band	3:30
		4	'S Wonderful George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin	BBC Big Band	3:00
		5	I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) Duke Ellington	BBC Big Band	2:39
		6	Sweet Georgia Brown Ben Bernie / Kenneth Casey / Maceo Pinkard	BBC Big Band	2:54
		7	I'm Getting Sentimental Over You George Bassman / Ned Washington	BBC Big Band	3:34
		8	Begin the Beguine Cole Porter	BBC Big Band	3:11
		9	I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo M. Gordon / Harry Warren	BBC Big Band	4:47
		10	South Rampart Street Parade Ray Bauduc / Bob Haggart	BBC Big Band	2:12
		11	Opus in Pastels Stan Kenton	BBC Big Band	2:49
		12	I'll Never Smile Again Ruth Lowe	BBC Big Band	3:00
		13	Anvil Chorus Jerry Gray / Giuseppe Verdi	BBC Big Band	4:54
		14	Let's Dance Fannie Baldridge / Joseph Bonine	BBC Big Band	2:18
		15	Artistry in Rhythm Stan Kenton	BBC Big Band	4:00

Track Listing - Disc 2

	Sample		Title/Composer	Performer	Time
		1	One O'Clock Jump Count Basie	BBC Big Band	3:02
		2	Song of India Red Bone / Tommy Dorsey / Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	BBC Big Band	3:06
		3	Little Brown Jug Bill Finegan	BBC Big Band	3:28
		4	Jersey Bounce Tiny Bradshaw / E. Johnson / Bobby Plater / Robert Wright	BBC Big Band	2:51
		5	American Patrol Jerry Gray	BBC Big Band	3:26
		6	Cherokee Ray Noble	BBC Big Band	3:01
		7	I Get a Kick Out of You Cole Porter	BBC Big Band	3:00
		8	Boogie Woogie Maxine B.J. Crosby / Sammy Gallop / Gil Rodin	BBC Big Band	2:35
		9	On the Sunny Side of the Street Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh	BBC Big Band	3:08
		10	Tuxedo Junction Julian Dash / Buddy Feyne / Erskine Hawkins / William Johnson	BBC Big Band	3:29
		11	Big John's Special Horace Henderson	BBC Big Band	3:13
		12	Hamp's Boogie Woogie Milt Buckner / Lionel Hampton	BBC Big Band	3:28
		13	Pinetops Boogie Pinetop Smith	BBC Big Band	3:18
		14	Harlem Nocturne Earle H. Hagen	BBC Big Band	2:47
		15	Don't Be That Way Benny Goodman / Mitchell Parish / Edgar Sampson	BBC Big Band	3:08

Track Listing - Disc 3

	Sample		Title/Composer	Performer	Time
		1	Episode 1, War Comes to America	BBC Big Band
		2	Episode 2, D-Day the Normandy Invasion	BBC Big Band

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