America has exported many products to the world, and one of our finest gifts is music. We may think of rock and roll or rhythm and blues, but one of the earliest and most popular musical exports is jazz and swing. This week we'll hear classics from Django Reinhardt, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks, Russ Barenberg, and next week we'll continue with Part 2. “It Don't Mean a Thing” … this week on The Sing Out Radio Magazine. 

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli / “Minor Swing” / Djangologie Vol.6 / EMI Pathe

Joshua Rifkin / “Elite Syncopations” / Scott Joplin Piano Rags / Nonesuch

Benny Goodman / “Air Mail Special” / Best of the Big Bands / Columbia

Count Basie / “One O'clock Jump” / This is Jazz 11 / Columbia

Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald / “It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)” / At the Cote D' Azur / Verve

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross / “Twisted” / The Hottest New Group in Jazz / Columbia

Dan Hicks & his Hot Licks / “Canned Music” / Original Recordings / Epic

Bill Knopf / “Take the “A” Train” / Pacific Swing / First Inversion

Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli / “Swinging with Django” / Djangologie Vol.6 / EMI Pathe

Allen Tousaint / “Rocks in My Bed” / American Tunes / Nonesuch

Guy Van Duser & Billy Novick / “Exactly Like You” / Exactly Like Us / Rounder

Russ Barenberg / “Halloween Rehearsal” / Halloween Rehearsal / Rounder

The Phil Salazar Band / “Swing to Bop” / The Phil Salazar Band / Flying Fish

Merle Travis / “Walkin' the Strings” / The Merle Travis Guitar / Raven

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways