| Count Basie | Composer |
| Dizzy Gillespie | Composer |
| Jelly Roll Morton | Arranger, Composer |
| Horace Silver | Composer |
| Horace Henderson | Arranger |
| Marty Bloom | Sound Effects |
| Con Conrad | Composer |
| Henry Creamer | Composer |
| Fletcher Henderson | Arranger |
| Jerry Gray | Arranger |
| Jon Hendricks | Composer |
| Turner Layton | Composer |
| Fud Livingston | Arranger |
| Mark Wilder | Mastering |
| Sam M. Lewis | Composer |
| Howard Fritzson | Art Direction |
| Ron Goldstein | Executive Producer |
| David Berger | Director |
| Joe Young | Composer |
| J. Russel Robinson | Composer |
| Seth Foster | Mastering |
| John Christiana | Packaging Manager |
| Lauren Atlas | Packaging Manager |
| Clare Walker | Packaging Manager |
| Jeff Jones | Executive Producer |
| Anita Gonzales | Composer |
Editorial Reviews
All Music Guide - Richie Unterberger
In conjunction with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' ten-part 2000 PBS special, Columbia/Legacy and Verve teamed up to issue a special series of reissues covering much of the history of 20th century jazz. The central release of this program was the five-CD box set Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music, which was augmented by no less than 22 single-artist anthologies. The Best of Ken Burns Jazz is the commercially available single-CD sampler, all of its 20 tracks taken from the five-CD box set. In this context, this could be taken as the equivalent of sitting down to a full Indian dinner, and not getting any further than the samosa appetizer. Still, it does fit...