An 8-track jazz mix that will take you way back to the 1920s and the origins of swing and then way forward to the great big band jam sessions of the 1950s. It includes music by Jelly Roll Morton, Fletcher Henderson, and Count Basie.

Image: The Percival Mackey Dance Band rehearsing with Monte Ryan on the roof of the Savoy Hotel in London. © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS, 1927 [stock photo id: HU026625]

8 tracks