Album · 1954
Tracklist
A1 I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
A2 Basin Street Blues
A3 St. Louis Blues
A4 The Blues Are Brewin'
A5 Rockin' Chair
A6 Where The Blues Were In New Orleans
B1 Blues For Yesterday
B2 Jack-Armstrong Blues
B3 Blues In The South
B4 Back O' Town Blues
B5 Fifty-Fifty Blues
B6 Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
Line-up/Musicians
Alto Saxophone – George Oldham (tracks: A1 to A3), Scoville Brown (tracks: A1 to A3)
Banjo – Mike McKendrick (tracks: A1 to A3)
Baritone Saxophone, Clarinet – Ernie Caceres (tracks: A5, B2, B5)
Bass – Al Hall (tracks: A5, B2, B5), Arvell Shaw (tracks: A4, B4), Bill Oldham (tracks: A1, A2), Red Callender (tracks: A6, B1, B3. B6)
Clarinet – Barney Bigard (tracks: A6, B1, B3, B6)
Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone – Peanuts Hucko (tracks: A5, B2, B5)
Drums – George Ballard (tracks: B4), Cozy Cole (tracks: A5, B2, B5), Edmund McConney (tracks: A4), Minor Hall (tracks: A6, B6), Yank Porter (tracks: A1 to A3), Zutty Singleton (tracks: B1, B3)
Guitar – Al Casey (tracks: A5, B2, B5), Allan Reuss (tracks: B1, B3), Elmer Warner (tracks: A4. B4)
Piano – Charlie Beal (tracks: A3, A6, B6), Earl Mason (tracks: A4), Ed Swanston (tracks: B4), Johnny Guarnieri (tracks: A5, B2, B5), Leonard Feather (tracks: B1, B3), Teddy Wilson (tracks: A1, A2)
Saxophone – Amos Gordon (tracks: A4, B4), Don Hill (tracks: A4, B4), Ernest Thompson (tracks: A4, B4), Joe Garland (tracks: A4, B4), John Sparrow (tracks: A4, B4)
Tenor Saxophone – Bud Johnson (tracks: A1 to A3)
Trombone – Russell Moore (tracks: A4, B4), Adam Martin (tracks: B4), Al Cobbs (tracks: B4), James Whitney (tracks: A4), Keg Johnson (tracks: A1 to A3), Kid Ory (tracks: A6, B6), Nathaniel Allen (tracks: A4), Norman Powe (tracks: B4), Vic Dickenson (tracks: B1, B3), Waddet Williams (tracks: A4)
Trombone, Vocals – Jack Teagarden (tracks: A5, B2, B5)
Trumpet – Andrew Ford (tracks: A4, B4), Bobby Hackett (tracks: A5, B2, B5), Ed Mullens (tracks: A4, B4), Elmer Whitlock (tracks: A1 to A3), Louis Gray (tracks: A4), Ludwig Jordan (tracks: B4), Robert Butler (tracks: A4), Bill Scott (tracks: A6, B4, B6), Zilmer Randolph (tracks: A1 to A3)
Trumpet, Vocals – Louis Armstrong
Tuba – Bob Ysaguire (tracks: A3)
About this release
RCA – L20104 (US)
A1 recorded January 26, 1933
A2 recorded January 27, 1933
A3 recorded April 26, 1933
A4, A6, and B6 recorded October 17, 1946
A5, B2, and B5 recorded June 10, 1947
B1, B3 recorded September 6, 1946
B4 recorded April 17, 1946
Thanks to snobb for the addition