| # | Title | Artist | Length |
|---|
| 1 | Maple Leaf Rag | Scott Joplin | 3:18 |
| 2 | Crazy Blues | Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds | 3:20 |
| 3 | Dippermouth Blues | King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band | 2:16 |
| 4 | Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground | Blind Willie Johnson | 3:20 |
| 5 | Statesboro Blues | Blind Willie McTell | 2:34 |
| 6 | How Long, How Long Blues | Leroy Carr | 3:01 |
| 7 | Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie | Pinetop Smith | 3:23 |
| 8 | St Louis Blues | Louis Armstrong | 3:03 |
| 9 | Ol’ Man River | Paul Robeson | 2:37 |
| 10 | Gimme a Pigfoot | Bessie Smith with Buck and His Band | 3:30 |
| 11 | Minnie the Moocher (The Ho de Ho Song) | Cab Calloway | 3:11 |
| 12 | Stormy Weather | Ethel Waters | 3:12 |
| 13 | Honeysuckle Rose | Fats Waller | 2:40 |
| 14 | Hellhound on My Trail | Robert Johnson | 2:37 |
| 15 | Good Morning, Schoolgirl | Sonny Boy Williamson | 3:03 |
| 16 | Jumpin’ at the Woodside | Count Basie | 3:07 |
| 17 | We Three (My Echo, My Shadow & Me) | The Ink Spots | 3:21 |
| 18 | Strange Fruit | Billie Holiday | 2:55 |
| 19 | Summertime- double bass:
- Johnny Williams (on 1939-06-08)
- drums (drum set):
- Sid Catlett (on 1939-06-08)
- guitar:
- Teddy Bunn (on 1939-06-08)
- piano:
- Meade Lux Lewis (on 1939-06-08)
- soprano saxophone:
- Sidney Bechet (on 1939-06-08)
- part of:
- Blue Note (number: GM-533-14)
- instrumental recording of:
- Summertime (on 1939-06-08)
- lyricist:
- Ira Gershwin (in 1934), Dorothy Heyward (in 1934) and DuBose Heyward (in 1934)
- composer:
- George Gershwin (in 1934)
- publisher:
- Chappell & Co., Chappell & Co., Inc., Chappell Music Ltd., Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund Publishing, George Gershwin Music, New Dawn Music, Warner Chappell Music Ltd., Warner/Chappell, Warner/Chappell Music Holland BV, Warner/Chappell North America Limited, Ira Gershwin Music (in 1935), WB Music Corp. (from 1935 until 2019-05-28) and WC Music Corp. (from 2019-05-28 to present)
- version of:
- Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. “Summertime” (Clara)
| Sidney Bechet | 4:10 |
| 20 | T-Bone Blues | T‐Bone Walker with Les Hite & His Orchestra | 3:16 |
| 21 | God Bless the Child | Billie Holiday | 2:45 |
| 22 | After You’ve Gone | Roy Eldridge with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra | 2:38 |
| 23 | I Wonder | Pvt Cecil Gant | 2:44 |
| 24 | Ko-Ko | Charlie Parker | 2:57 |
| 25 | Things Ain’t What They Used to Be | Duke Ellington & His Orchestra | 3:09 |
| 26 | Straighten Up and Fly Right | Nat King Cole | 2:29 |
