The History of Jazz

So I have a nephew who is 13 and a big jazz fan.  I started to put together a playlist for him of jazz music and it turned into this History of Jazz playlist instead.  You can check out the two parts on Rhapsody:  Part1, Part 2.

I got the heart of this list and most of the headers from Wikipedia. Hopefully whoever wrote those articles knows what they are talking about. 

Pre Jazz
Blues
Black Eye Blues - Ma Rainey
After You've Gone - Bessie Smith

Ragtime
Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin
She's A Mean Job Blues - W.C. Handy

New Orleans Music
Original Jelly Roll Blues - Jelly Roll Morton
The Darktown Strutters' Ball - James Reese Europe

1920s and 1930s
The Jazz Age
Keep Off The Grass - James P. Johnson
Livery Stable Blues - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Who Loves You? - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Get Out Of Here - Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band
Downhearted Blues - Bessie Smith
Mabels Dream - King Oliver
Some Day My Heart Will Awake - Bill Johnson
In A Mist - Bix Beiderbecke
Off To Buffalo - Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra
Jazz Lips - Louis Armstrong
Heebie Jeebies - Louis Armstrong
Since We Fell Out Of Love - New Orleans Rhythm Kings
My Pretty Girl - Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra
Rhapsody In Blue - Paul Whiteman Orchestra
The Way You Look Tonight - Billie Holiday

Swing
Got Everything But You - Duke Ellington
St. Louis Blues - Earl Hines Quintet
Best Black - Eddie Lang
Li'l Darlin' - Count Basie
I Learned About Love From Her - Cab Calloway
Forty Second Street - The Dorsey Brothers
I've Got the World On a String - Duke Ellington
Love Never Went To College - Benny Goodman
You Go to My Head - Fletcher Henderson
Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller
Someday Sweet Heart - Artie Shaw
On The Sunny Side Of The Street - Lester Young
Stardust - Frank Sinatra
If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) - Count Basie
I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart - Mildred Bailey
The White Cliffs Of Dover - Kate Smith
Georgia On My Mind - Clarissa
I Got Rhythm - Ethel Merman
My Melancholy Baby - Ella Fitzgerald
Moonlight Cocktail - Glenn Miller
You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me - Bing Crosby
The Loveliest Night Of The Year - Mario Lanza

Early European Jazz
Out Of Nowhere - Django Reinhardt

1940s and 1950s 
Dixieland Revival
Stumblin´ - Bob Crosby's Bobcats
Rose Room - Max Kaminsky
Nobody's Sweetheart - Eddie Condon
If I Had You - Wild Bill Davison
Temptation Rag - Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band
On the Sunny Side of the Street - Louis Armstrong

Bebop
All The Things You Are - Charlie Parker
Embraceable You - Bud Powell
Evonce - Thelonious Monk
A Night In Tunisia - Dizzy Gillespie
Minor Mood - Clifford Brown
I'm A Fool To Want You - Max Roach
In a Sentimental Mood - Oscar Peterson

Cool Jazz
Move - Miles Davis
Minority - DJ Swamp
But Not For Me - Chet Baker
Kathy's Waltz - Dave Brubeck
Jambangle - Joanna de Seyne
Cherokee - Shelly Manne
Versailles (Porte de Versailles) - The Modern Jazz Quartet
All The Things You Are - Lars Gullin
April Fool - Lennie Tristano

Hard Bop
Walkin' - Miles Davis
Along Came Betty - Art Blakey

Modal Jazz
Blue In Green - Miles Davis
Manhattan - George Russell
Autumn Leaves - DJ Swamp
Naima - John Coltrane
Watermelon Man - Herbie Hancock

Vocal Jazz Goes Solo 
I've Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra
Blue Skies - Ella Fitzgerald
I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry - Sarah Vaughan
That Old Feeling - Mel Torme
One O'Clock Jump - Lambert, Hendricks and Ross
Stella By Starlight - Billy Eckstine
Every Day I Have The Blues - Joe Williams
What A Difference A Day Made - Dinah Washington
Once Upon A Time - Tony Bennett
Tenderly - Anita O'Day
The Night We Called It A Day (LP Version) - Chris Connor
That's All - June Christy
I'm A Fool To Want You (Edited Master) - Billie Holiday
Until The Real Thing Comes Along - Carmen McRae
Summertime - Nina Simone
Let Me Off Uptown - Dakota Staton

Free Jazz
Better Git It In Your Soul - Charles Mingus
Lonely Woman - Ornette Coleman
Wallering - The Cecil Taylor Quartet
Acknowledgement Part 1 - John Coltrane
Cousin Mary - Archie Shepp
Where Is Tomorrow - Sun Ra
Spirits - Albert Ayler
Colors - Pharoah Sanders
Air - Steve Lacy
Out There - Eric Dolphy
Smatter - Kenny Wheeler
Life Between The Exit Signs - Keith Jarrett

1960s and 1970s
Latin Jazz
Cuba Libre (Guracha) - Xavier Cugat
Oye mi guaguanco - Tito Puente
The Girl From Ipanema - Joao Gilberto
Batidinha - Antonio Carlos Jobim
Chega de Saudade - Elizete Cardoso
Aguas De Marco - Elis Regina

Post Bop
Infant Eyes - Wayne Shorter
Contemplation - Mccoy Tyner
The Eye Of The Hurricane - Herbie Hancock
The Joker - Lee Morgan
Channel 1 Suite - Buddy Rich

Soul Jazz
Song For My Father - Horace Silver
Keep Loose - Jimmy McGriff
Minor Chant - Jimmy Smith
That Good Feelin' - Johnny "Hammond" Smith
Epistrophy - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Let It Go - Stanley Turrentine

Jazz Fusion
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
You Know You Know - The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Orange Lady - Weather Report
Sorceress - Return to Forever
Straight From The Gate - The Headhunters
We Got By - Al Jarreau
Boy From New York City - The Manhattan Transfer

1980s - Today
Traditionalists
Chambers Of Tain - Wynton Marsalis
Amsterdam - Brad Mehldau
Snake Stance - Jason Moran
Song for Midwood - Vijay Iyer
The Next Step - Kurt Rosenwinkel
Message to Mankind - Stefon Harris
I'm Not So Sure - Roy Hargrove
Simplemente Simon - Terence Blanchard
Blues In Concentric Circles - Chris Potter
Turnaround - Joshua Redman
Theme for Kareem - Christian McBride
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever - Maxine Sullivan
Dindi - Flora Purim
Isn't This A Lovely Day - Carol Sloane
Smack Dab in the Middle - New York Voices
You Taught My Heart To Sing - Dianne Reeves
Prelude To A Kiss - Diane Schuur
I Can't Stand The Rain - Cassandra Wilson
Resolution - Kurt Elling
Dance With Me To The End OF Love - Madeleine Peyroux

Experimentalists
Underwater And Trying To Find The Stars - Rob Mazurek
Up North - Ken Vandermark
McNeil Island / Pumpkin - Nels Cline
Cloud of Dust - Todd Sickafoose
Ritual - Craig Taborn
Eternal Interlude - John Hollenbeck
Time And Tide - John Scofield
Church Of Logic - Medeski Martin & Wood
Big Eater - The Bad Plus
The Chapel - E.S.T.
Something Beautiful - Acoustic Ladyland
Spring - Led Bib
Happy For You - Polar Bear
Blackbird - Bobby McFerrin
You Got Ti My Head - Jeanne Lee & Mal Waldron
You Thrill Me - Patty Waters

Smooth Jazz
7th Ave. - David Sanborn
Is It A Crime - Sade

Acid Jazz
Sure Thing - St. Germain

Jazz Rap
Conspiracy - Gag Starr
Excursions - A Tribe Called Quest

Punk Jazz & Jazzcore
Sharks - The Lounge Lizards
Chronology - John Zorn
Without Water - Candiria

Modern Creative
The Shell Game - Tim Berne
Home - Olu Dara
Into The Clearing - Jenny Scheinman
There It Is - Don Byron

Vocal Pop Jazz
Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Harry Connick, Jr.
Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
Singin' In The Rain - Jamie Cullum
Hit That Jive Jack - Diana Krall
Spread Love - Take 6
I've Found A New Baby - The Real Group

Let's Run

My latest run mix.

1. Rocket - Goldfrapp
2. MCs Can Kiss - Uffie
3. Bucky Done Gun - M.I.A.
4. Dy-Na-Mi-Tee (Album Version) - Ms. Dynamite
5. The World Should Revolve Around Me (Explicit) - Little Jackie
6. Two - The Antlers
7. Get The Party Started - Pink
8. Let Me Be - Britney Spears
9. With You - Jessica Simpson
10. Stupid In Love - Rihanna
11. Hurt - Christina Aguilera
12. Me, Myself And I - Beyonce
13. Hush Hush; Hush Hush (Main) - Pussycat Dolls
14. Moving In Stereo - The Cars
15. Friends Of P. - The Rentals
16. Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson
17. Hot - Avril Lavigne
18. How I Could Just Kill A Man - Charlotte Sometimes
19. We Will Not Grow Old - Lenka
20. Maybe - Ingrid Michaelson