Boxset / Compilation · 1956
Tracklist
A1 Tootie 2:46
A2 How Long Blues 2:58
A3 Way Back Blues 3:28
A4 Blues (I Still Think Of Her) 2:48
A5 Harvard Blues 3:20
A6 Bugle Blues (Interpolation From "Ole Miss" By W.C. Handy) 2:22
B1 Take Me Back, Baby 3:02
B2 The Golden Bullet 2:27
B3 Nobody Knows 2:46
B4 Royal Garden Blues 3:07
B5 I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town 3:03
B6 Bluebeard Blues 3:05
Total Time: 36:12
Line-up/Musicians
Alto Saxophone – Earle Warren (tracks: A2, A4, A5, B1, B3, B5), Jack Washington (tracks: A2, A4, B3), Tab Smith (tracks: A5, B1, B5)
Baritone Saxophone – Jack Washington (tracks: A2, A4, A5, B1, B3, B5), Serge Chaloff (tracks: A1, B2, B6)
Bass – Jimmy Lewis (tracks: A1, B2, B6), Walter Page (tracks: A2 to B1, B3 to B5)
Clarinet – Buddy DeFranco (tracks: A1, B2, B6)
Drums – Buddy Rich (tracks: B2, B6), Gus Johnson (tracks: A1), Jo Jones (tracks: A2 to B1, B3 to B5)
Featuring – Buck Clayton, Buddy De Franco , Buddy Rich, Buddy Tate, Charlie Rouse, Clark Terry, Don Byas, Freddie Green, Harry Edison, Jo Jones, Serge Chaloff, Walter Page, Wardell Gray
Guitar – Freddie Green
Organ – Count Basie (tracks: B3)
Piano – Count Basie (tracks: A1 to B2, B4 to B6)
Tenor Saxophone – Buddy Tate (tracks: A2, A4, A5, B1, B3, B5), Charlie Rouse (tracks: B2, B6), Don Byas (tracks: A5 to B1, B4, B5), Lester Young (tracks: A2, A4, B3), Wardell Gray (tracks: A1)
Trombone – Benny Morton (tracks: A2, B3), Dan Minor (tracks: A2, A4, A5, B1, B3, B5), Dicky Wells (tracks: A2, A4, A5, B1, B3, B5), Eli Robinson (tracks: A5, B1, B5), Bob Scott (tracks: A5, B1, B5), Vic Dickenson (tracks: A4)
Trumpet – Al Killian (tracks: A4, A5, B1, B5), Buck Clayton (tracks: A2, A4 to B1, B3 to B5), Clark Terry (tracks: A1, B2, B6), Ed Lewis (tracks: A2, A4, B3), Harry Edison (tracks: A2, A4, A5, B1, B3, B5), Shad Collins (tracks: A2, B3)
About this release
Columbia – CL 901 (US)
Track A1 recorded November 3, 1950.
Track A2 recorded June 24, 1939.
Tracks A3, A6, B4 recorded July 24, 1942.
Track A4 recorded March 19, 1940.
Track A5 recorded November 17, 1941.
Track B1 recorded September 24, 1941.
Tracks B2, B6 recorded May 16, 1950.
Track B3 recorded May 19, 1939.
Track B5 recorded April 3, 1942.
Thanks to snobb for the updates