- The Reason – Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
- Contusion – Stevie Wonder
- African Blues – Larry Young
- Hilo – Antibalas
- Asheville To Abidjan – Toubab Krewe
- Ceddo End Title – Manu Dibango
- Respect – Rotary Connection
- Hit ‘Em Up Style – Carolina Chocolate Drops
- My Favorite Things – OutKast
- Arkestry – Flying Lotus
- Rocket Number Nine – Sun Ra
- Bloops, Bleeps, Bongos & Brass – The Coconut Monkeyrocket
- Franco – Stewart Copeland
- Message in a Bottle – Andy Milne
- Ugly Beauty – Andy Summers
- Roxanne – Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson
- Blue Yodel No. 9 – Louis Armstrong
- Sweet Georgia Brown – Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli
- I’ll Never Be Free – Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan
- Manhattan Minuet – Raymond Scott
- After the Ball – Uri Caine Ensemble
- Lobster Leaps In – The Microscopic Septet
- Lester Leaps In – Slide Hampton
- A Hard Day’s Night – Count Basie
- Prince of Wails – Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra
- Trumbology – Bix Beiderbecke & Frankie Trumbauer
A mix that I made for a friend’s surprise birthday party, the centerpiece of which was a super secret surprise command performance by the Microscopic Septet.
The mix can be downloaded here.
Also posted at Zen Running Order.
Darn you, Burns. You conspired to perpetrate a scam upon me.
A simply fabulous soundtrack for the day.