| CD1 - The Twenties |
| 1. Original Dixieland Jazzband - At The Jazz Band Ball | not rated | 2:01 |
| 2. Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra - Way Down Yonder In New Orleans | not rated | 1:44 |
| 3. The Georgians - Snakes Hips | not rated | 2:01 |
| 4. Original Capitol Orchestra - Tiger Rag | not rated | 1:37 |
| 5. Savoy Orpheans - Eccentric | not rated | 1:57 |
| 6. Mound City Blue Blowers - Morning After Blues | not rated | 1:44 |
| 7. Jack Hylton's Kit-Kat Band - Riverboat Shuffle | not rated | 2:04 |
| 8. Plantation Orchestra - Arabella's Wedding Day | not rated | 1:54 |
| 9. Devonshire Restaurant Dance Band - Sugar Foot Stomp | not rated | 2:02 |
| 10. Fred Elizalde And His Cambridge Undergraduates - Stomp Your Feet | not rated | 1:50 |
| 11. Bert Firman's Rhythmic Eight - You Don't Like It, Not Much | not rated | 1:44 |
| 12. Bert Firman's Rhythmic Eight - Miss Annabelle Lee | not rated | 1:53 |
| 13. Jack Hylton's Rhythmagicians - Grieving For You | not rated | 2:01 |
| 14. Fred Elizalde' Savoy Hotel Band - Dixie | not rated | 1:37 |
| 15. Jay Whidden And His New Midnight Follies Band - A Dicky Bird Told Me | not rated | 2:12 |
| 16. Eddie South And His Alabamians - Two Guitars | not rated | 1:59 |
| 17. Fred Elizalde And His Music - Nobody's Sweetheart | not rated | 2:04 |
| 18. Noble Sissle And His Orchestra - Miranda | not rated | 2:13 |
| 19. Allan Selby And His Band - Love Me Or Leave Me | not rated | 2:04 |
| 20. Philip Lewis And His Orchestra - That's A Plenty | not rated | 1:55 |
| 21. Jack Hart And His Dance Band - Song Of The Dawn | not rated | 1:54 |
| 22. Ted Lewis And His Band - Sobbin' Blues | not rated | 2:05 |
| 23. Jimmy Dorsey With Spike Hughes And His Three Blind Mice - St. Louis B | not rated | 1:50 |
| 24. Spike Hughes And His Orchestra - Funny, Dear, What Love Can Do | not rated | 2:00 |
| 25. Night Club Kings - Allah's Holiday | not rated | 2:04 |
| 26. Billy Cotton And His Band - Bessie Couldn't Help It | not rated | 1:46 |
| 50:15 |
| CD2 - Louis And Duke Arrive |
| 1. Spike Hughes And His Orchestra - Buddy's Wednesday Outing | not rated | 1:48 |
| 2. Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra - Sunny Side Of The Street, Pt.2 | not rated | 2:13 |
| 3. Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - Ain't Misbehavin | not rated | 1:36 |
| 4. Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington Talking To Percy Mathison Brooks | not rated | 1:15 |
| 5. Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - Hyde Park | not rated | 1:42 |
| 6. Madame Tussaud's Dance Orchestra - Jazz Cocktail | not rated | 1:34 |
| 7. Ray Noble And His Orchestra - Japanese Sandman | not rated | 2:14 |
| 8. Jack Hylton And His Orchestra - Ellingtonia, Introducing Black & Tan, | not rated | 1:54 |
| 9. Cab Calloway And His Orchestra - Jitter Bug | not rated | 2:14 |
| 10. Joe Venuti And His Blue Four - Romantic Joe | not rated | 1:43 |
| 11. Lew Stone And His Band - I Ain't Got Nobody | not rated | 2:13 |
| 12. Valaida Snow Acc By Billy Mason And His Orchestra - I Wish I Were Twi | not rated | 1:45 |
| 13. Nat Gonella's Georgians - Fascinating Rhythm | not rated | 1:47 |
| 14. Gerry Moore - Stars Fell On Alabama | not rated | 1:45 |
| 15. Washboard Serenaders - The Sheik Of Araby | not rated | 2:01 |
| 16. Mario ''Harp'' Lorenzi And His Rhythmics - Some Of These Days | not rated | 2:15 |
| 17. Duncan Whyte - Hummin' To Myself | not rated | 2:15 |
| 18. Nat Gonella's Georgians - Singin' The Blues | not rated | 2:05 |
| 19. Benny Carter And His Orchestra - Nightfall | not rated | 2:09 |
| 20. The Swing Rhythm Boys - Is It True What They Say About Dixie | not rated | 2:08 |
| 21. Garland Wilson - Just A Mood | not rated | 1:53 |
| 22. Buck And Bubbles - Lady, Be Good | not rated | 1:55 |
| 23. Benny Carter And His Orchestra - Gin And Jive | not rated | 2:00 |
| 24. Teddy Hill And His NBC Orchestra - King Porter Stomp | not rated | 2:14 |
| 25. Ambrose And His Orchestra - Cotton Pickers Congregation | not rated | 2:15 |
| 26. Sid Phillips And His Orchestra - Amoresque | not rated | 1:46 |
| 27. Danny Polo And His Swing Stars - Blue Murder | not rated | 1:50 |
| 52:29 |
| CD3 - Jazz Takes Hold In The UK |
| 1. Art Tatum - The Sheik Of Araby | not rated | 1:35 |
| 2. Danny Polo And His Swing Stars - If You Were The Only Girl In The Worl | not rated | 1:31 |
| 3. Freddy Gardner And His Swing Orchestra - Have You Got Any Castles, Bab | not rated | 1:57 |
| 4. Una Mae Carlisle And Her Jam Band - I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby | not rated | 1:38 |
| 5. Fats Waller And His Continental Rhythm - Ain't Misbehavin' | not rated | 1:50 |
| 6. Quintette Of The Hot Club Of France - Lambeth Walk | not rated | 1:57 |
| 7. Ken ''Snakehips'' Johnson And His West Indian Dance Band - Snakehips S | not rated | 1:38 |
| 8. Freddy Gardner And His Swing Orchestra - 10 A.M. Blues | not rated | 1:50 |
| 9. Jack Hylton And His Orchestra With Coleman Hawkins - My Melancholy Bab | not rated | 2:03 |
| 10. Harry Roy And His Orchestra - Darktown Strutters Ball | not rated | 2:12 |
| 11. The Blue Mariners - Stardust | not rated | 1:13 |
| 12. Johnny Claes And His Clay Pigeons - I Heard | not rated | 2:32 |
| 13. Harry Parry And His Radio Rhythm Club Sextet - The Java Joint | not rated | 2:05 |
| 14. First English Public Jam Session - Tea For Two | not rated | 4:08 |
| 15. Cyril Blake And His Jig's Club Band - Blue Skies | not rated | 2:18 |
| 16. ''Melody Maker'' Competition Band - Red Duster Rag | not rated | 2:36 |
| 17. Phil Green And His Basin Street Band - Bugle Call Rag | not rated | 2:02 |
| 18. Buddy Featherstonhaugh And The Radio Rhythm Club Sextet - Buddy's Blu | not rated | 1:50 |
| 19. Josephine Bradley And Her Jive Orchestra - Rockin' The Blues | not rated | 2:20 |
| 20. Vic Lewis And Jack Parnell's Jazzmen - I'm Coming Virginia | not rated | 1:45 |
| 21. George Shearing Sextet - Five Flat Flurry | not rated | 2:13 |
| 22. Leslie ''Jiver'' Hutchinson And His Coloured Orchestra - Swing Low, S | not rated | 2:04 |
| 23. Vic Lews And Jack Parnell's Jazzmen - Dick's Boogie | not rated | 1:42 |
| 24. Miff Ferrie And His Ferrymen - In A Little Spanish Town | not rated | 2:06 |
| 25. Tony Short Trio - 165 Blues | not rated | 1:49 |
| 26. Ted Heath And His Music - Bakerloo Non-Stop | not rated | 2:11 |
| 27. The Squadronaires - Hey Ba-Ba-Rebop | not rated | 1:42 |
| 54:47 |
| CD4 - Stylistic Turmoil |
| 1. Harry Hayes And His Band - Blue Charm | not rated | 1:57 |
| 2. Harry Hayes And His Band - Rockin' In Rhythm | not rated | 2:14 |
| 3. George Webb's Dixielanders - When The Saints Go Marching In | not rated | 2:43 |
| 4. Melody Maker Coulmbia Jazz Rally - Blue Moon | not rated | 3:38 |
| 5. Melody Maker Columbis Jazz Rally - Thriving On A Riff | not rated | 0:44 |
| 6. Ray Ellington Quartet - Five Guys Named Moe | not rated | 1:51 |
| 7. Victor Feldman Quartet - Mop Mop | not rated | 1:55 |
| 8. All Star Sextet - I Can't Get Started | not rated | 2:03 |
| 9. Graeme Bell And His Australian Jazz Band - Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble | not rated | 2:19 |
| 10. Freddy Randall And His Band - Wolverine Blues | not rated | 2:03 |
| 11. Mark White Presents Jazz Club - Jazz Club Stomp | not rated | 1:57 |
| 12. Ronnie Scott's Club 11 Boptet - Wee Dot | not rated | 1:50 |
| 13. Johnny Dankworth Quartet - Lover Man | not rated | 2:18 |
| 14. Alan Dean And His Be-Boppers - Gone With The Windmill | not rated | 2:15 |
| 15. Carlo Krahmer's Chicagoans - Blues In Thirds | not rated | 2:29 |
| 16. Benny Goodman - BBC Broadcast ''Hi, Gang!''... Put Your Shoes On, Luc | not rated | 6:52 |
| 17. Ted Heath And His Music - Lyonia | not rated | 2:14 |
| 18. Yorkshire Jazz Band - Alexander's Ragtime Band | not rated | 2:46 |
| 19. Sidney Bechet With Humphrey Lyttelton - Some Of These Days | not rated | 2:12 |
| 20. Coleman Hawkins And His Orchestra - It's Only A Paper Moon | not rated | 2:00 |
| 21. Humphrey Lyttleton And His Band - Maple Leaf Rag | not rated | 2:41 |
| 51:01 |
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