The AMERICA collection provides a glimpse into 20th century American music. With Gospel, Blues and Jazz, black people gave the world the foundations on which most types of Western music - Rhythm & Blues, Soul Music, Rock 'n' Roll, Funk, Rap - were to be built.

Each of our (2 CD) anthologies gets to the very heart of these genres and explains their origins, their rationale and their evolution.

Contents:
CD 1
Scott Joplin
1. The Cascades

Benjamin Harney
2. Cake-walk in the sky

Scott Joplin
3. Mapple leaf rag

Eubie Blake
4. Charleston rag

Dominique James La Rocca
5. Tiger rag

James P Johnson
6. Harlem strut

William Christopher Handy
7. Memphis blues

William Henry Tyers
8. Panama

Oliver Joseph
9. Canal street blues

Melrose Walter
10. Copenhagen

Bix Beiderbecke
11. Davenport blues

Lil Hardin
12. My heart

Melrose Walter
13. Dr Jazz

Rudy Jackson
14. Creole love call

Walter Michels
15. San

Byron Gay
16. Four or fives times

Thaman Hayes
17. South

Irving Mills
18. The Mooche

Roger Quincy Dickerson
19. Ozark Mountain blues

Bud Freeman
20. The Eel

Henry Brunies
21. Angry

Benny Goodman
22. Music hall rag

Roger Moore
23. Jangled nerves

Eddie Durham
24. Harlem shout
25. Topsy

Andy Razaf
26. In the mood

CD 2
Perry Bradford
1. Crazy blues

Williams Clarence
2. West Indies blues

Charles Davis
3. Sobbin' hearted blues

Ira Gershwin
4. Fascinating rhythm

James Bubbler Miley
5. The Blues I love to sing

Lil Hardin
6. Hotter than that

Dorothy Fields
7. Diga diga doo

Turner Layton
8. After you've gone

Charles Warfield
9. Baby won't you please come home

Ira Gershwin
10. I got rhythm

Boyd Atkins
11. Heebie jeebies

Abel Baer
12. It's the girl

Sidney Arodin
13. Lazy river

Hoagy Carmichael
14. Georgia on my mind

Edward Kennedy Ellington
15. It don't mean a thing

Joe Young
16. I wanna count sheep

Shelton Brooks
17. Some of these days

Harry Alexander White
18. Zah zuh zah

Williams Clarence
19. I can't dance

Ted Koehler
20. Truckin'

Sam Howard Stept
21. All my life

Ira Gershwin
22. Nice work if you can get it

Channing Pollock
23. My man

James Andrew Rushing
24. Sent for you yesterday

Mary Lou Williams
25. You set me on fire