Boxset / Compilation · 1988
Tracklist
A1 Work Song (From "Black, Brown & Beige")
A2 Come Sunday (From "Black, Brown & Beige")
A3 The Blues (From "Black, Brown & Beige")
A4 Three Dances (From "Black, Brown & Beige")
A4a West Indian Dance
A4b Emancipation Celebration
A4c Sugar Hill Penthouse (Beige)
A5 I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues
A6 I'm Beginning To See The Light
B1 Don't You Know I Care (Or Don't You Care To Know)
B2 I Didn't Know About You
B3 Carnegie Blues
B4 Blue Cellophane
B5 Mood To Be Woo'd
B6 (All Of A Sudden) My Heart Sings
B7 Kissing Bug
C1 Everything But You
C2 (Otto Make That) Riff Staccato
C3 Prelude To A Kiss
C4 Caravan
C5 Black And Tan Fantasy
C6 Mood Indigo
C7 In A Sentimental Mood
D1 It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
D2 Sophisticated Lady
D3 Tonight I Shall Sleep (With A Smile On My Face)
D4 I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
D5 Solitude
D6 Black Beauty
D7 Every Hour On The Hour (I Fall In Love With You)
E1 Balcony Serenade (From "The Perfume Suite")
E2 Strange Feeling (From "The Perfume Suite")
E3 Dancers In Love ("Stomp For Beginners" - From "The Perfume Suite")
E4 Coloratura (From "The Perfume Suite") [Remake]
E5 Things Ain't What They Used To Be
E6 Tell Ya What I'm Gonna Do
E7 Come To Baby, Do!
F1 I'm Just A Lucky So-And-So
F2 Long, Strong And Consecutive
F3 The Wonder Of You
F4 Rockabye River (Hop, Skip, Jump)
F5 Suddenly It Jumped
F6 Transblucency (A Blue Fog That You Can Almost See Trough)
F7 Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)
F8 A Gathering In A Clearing
G1 You Don't Love Me No More
G2 Pretty Woman
G3 Hey Baby
G4 Back Home Again In Indiana
G5 Blue Is The Night
G6 Lover Man
G7 Just You, Just Me
G8 Beale Street Blues
H1 My Honey's Lovin' Arms
H2 Memphis Blues
H3 I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You
H4 St. Louis Blues
H5 Swamp Fire
H6 Royal Garden Blues
H7 Esquire Swank
H8 Midriff
Line-up/Musicians
Bass – Al Lucas, Bob Haggart, Alvin Raglin , Oscar Pettiford, Sid Weiss
Drums – Sidney Catlett, Sonny Greer
Guitar – Fred Guy
Piano, Arranged By – Billy Strayhorn
Saxophone, Clarinet – Al Sears, Harry Carney, Jimmy Hamilton, Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwick, Russell Procope
Trombone – Claude Jones, Joseph "Tricky Sam" Nanton , Lawrence Brown, Tommy Dorsey, Wilbur DeParis
Trumpet – Cat Anderson, Francis Williams, Harold "Shorty" Baker , Ray Nance, Rex Stewart, Shelton Hemphill, Taft Jordan
Vocals – Al Hibbler, Joya Sherrill, Kay Davis, Marie Ellington, Marian Cox , Ray Nance
About this release
Bluebird – 6641-1-RB (US)
Recorded between December 1, 1944 and August 26, 1946 on various locations (RCA Studios, New York City, and Hollywood)
Thanks to snobb for the addition