Subtitle on container: The fabulous big band era, 1925-1955. Compilation produced by Aubrey Fell ; archival restoration and remastering by Larry Keyes, Sony Music Studios, New York. Program notes, photographs and discography in book. "All selections are mono recordings." Various orchestras.
Contents:
disc 1: Sweet Georgia Brown -- Sugar foot stomp -- Birmingham breakdown -- Crazy rhythm -- Let's do it (let's fall in love) -- Sugar is back in town -- Panama -- San Sue strut -- Happy feet -- Hot and anxious -- Royal garden blues -- Walkin' my baby back home -- I got rhythm -- It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) -- Dinah -- Everybody loves my baby -- I love you because I love you -- Under a blanket of blue -- Bugle call rag -- Three little words -- Stompin' at the Savoy -- Who walks in when I walk out? disc 2: Uptown rhapsody -- Deep blue melody -- Organ grinder's swing -- Mr. Ghost goes to town -- Jimtown blues -- St. Louis wiggle rhythm -- Cross patch -- Big John's special -- Emperor Jones -- Marie -- Blue Lou -- South Rampart Street parade -- Stealin' apples -- Remember -- Shuffle rhythm -- Nightmare -- Caravan -- I let a song go out of my heart -- Cherokee -- In the mood -- Stardust -- All or nothing at all. disc 3: Let's dance -- T'ain't what you do -- Sweet Lorraine -- Beale Street blues -- Celery stalks at midnight -- Slow freight -- Moten swing -- Green eyes -- Let me off uptown -- Take the "A" train -- Jersey bounce -- One o'clock jump -- Why don't you do right? -- I'm beginning to see the light -- Leap frog -- Caldonia -- Arab dance -- The peanut vendor -- Don't get around much anymore -- Elevation -- What a little moonlight can do -- Perdido.
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