CoronaVinyl Day 164 (Larger Than Triple Album): The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz by Various Artist

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Today's CoronaVinyl category is "larger than triple album," and I have The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz, a sprawling 6-LP collection released in 1973 by the Smithsonian Institution.  As you may be able to see from the price tag that I never took off the album, I got this for a measly $4.99.  That's less than 42 cents per side!

It features songs from early blues, jazz, and ragtime, up through bebop, post-bop, and free jazz, from artists including, but not limited to, Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Krupa, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane.

I'm not even going to try to give you my favorite songs from all 12 sides of the collection, but someone has dutifully recreated the collection on a Spotify playlist (as best he could), so if you want to listen to how jazz evolved from the '20s to the '60s, and you have nearly six hours to spare, here you go.