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Boxset / Compilation · 1994

Filed under Swing
By JOHN KIRBY

Tracklist

01. Rehearsin' for a Nervous Breakdown (Shavers) 2'40
02. From A flat to C (Kyle) 2'36
03. Pastel Blue (Shavers, Artie Shaw) 3'11
04. Undecided (Shavers) 3'02
05. By the Waters of Minnetonka (Thurlow Lieurance) 3'10
06. It Feels So Good (Shavers) 2'45
07. Effervescent Blues (Shavers) 2'50
08. The Turf (Kirby) 2'53
09. Dawn on the Desert (Shavers) 2'55
10. Anitra's Dance (from "Peer Gynt" by Edvard Grieg; arr. Shavers) 2'47
11. Sweet Georgia Brown (Bernie, Casey, Pinkard) 2'51
12. Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes (arr. Shavers) 3'00
13. Minute Waltz (Frédéric Chopin; arr. Young) 2'33
14. Front and Center (Shavers, Kirby) 2'57
15. Royal Garden Blues (Clarence Williams, Spencer Williams) 2'32
16. Opus 5 (Shavers) 2'49
17. Fantasy Impromptu ("Fantaisie-Impromptu" by Frédéric Chopin; arr. Young) 2'39
18. Blue Skies (Irving Berlin) 2'40
19. Rose Room (In Sunny Roseland) (Art Hickman) 2'38
20. I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful) (Henry Sullivan) 3'02
21. The Little Brown Jug (Joseph Eastburn Winner; arr. Shavers) 2'45
22. Nocturne (from "Two American Scetches" by Thomas Griselle) 2'44

total time: 62'04

Line-up/Musicians

About this release

Classics 750 (France)

1-5 recorded in New York, NY, USA, on October 28, 1938;
6-9 recorded in New York, on January 9, 1939;
10-13 recorded in New York, on May 19, 1939;
14-16 recorded in New York, on July 28, 1939;
17-20 recorded in New York, on August 10, 1939;
21+22 recorded in Chicago, IL, USA, on October 12, 1939