Boxset / Compilation · 2010
Tracklist
Side 1
1. I Don't Want To Play In The Kitchen (v – Roebie Kirk)
2. Tab Steps Out
3. All Night Long (v- Trevor Bacon)
4. Roebie's Blues (v – Roebie Kirk)
5. Riffin' The Bass
6. Granny Dodging At The Savoy
7. You Lovely You (v- Trevor Bacon)
8. Rosa Lee (v- Trevor Bacon)
Side 2
1. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
2. Fat Mouth Blues (v- Betty Mays)
3. Darling, You're All I Need (v – Tab Smith)
4. Jumpin' At The Track
5. Morning Blues (v – Jack Galbreath)
6. Echo Blues
7. Feel Like I Wanna Die (v- Ray King)
8. Boogie Joogie
Line-up/Musicians
А3, A7 - Frank Humphries (tp), Tab Smith (as), Mike Hedley (ts), Raymond Tunia (p), Trevor Bacon (g, vo), Al McKibbon (b), Walter Johnson (dm).
NYC. May 10, 1944
А8 - same as previous session
NYC. Nov. 1944
A2 - Archie Johnson (tp), Tab Smith (as), Mike Hedley (ts), Red Richards (p), Trevor
Bacon (g, vo-1251,54), Al McKibbon (b), Walter Johnson (dm).
Chicago, Feb. 1945
A1, A4, A6 - Frank Galbraith (tp), Tab Smith (as??, ts), Johnny Hicks (ts), Larry Belton (bar), Red Richards (p), John Drummond (b), Walter Johnson (dm), Robie Kirk (vo).
LA. Aug. 1945
A5, B1-B3 - Frank Humphries (tp), Tab Smith (as, vo-402), Johnny Hicks (ts), Red Richards (p), Joe Brown (b), Walter Johnson (dm), Betty Mays (vo)
NYC. ca. Nov. 1945
B4, B5 - Frank Galbreath, Russell Royster (tp), Tab Smith (as, vo), Johnny Hicks (ts), Larry Belton (bar), Red Richards (p), Johnny Williams (b), Walter Johnson (dm), Frank Galbreath (vo)
NYC. Sept. 1945
B6 - Irving Woods or Frank Humphries (tp), Sandy Williams (tb), Tab Smith (as), Charlie Wright (ts), Teddy Brannon (p), Jimmy Styles (b), Walter Johnson (dm).
NYC. Feb. 15, 1949
B8 - Sonny Cohn (tp), Tab Smith (as-195,96, ts-197-200), Leon Washington (ts), Lavern Dillon or Teddy Brannon (p), Wilfred Middlebrooks (b), Walter Johnson (dm)
Chicago, Sept.1951
About this release
Saxophonograph
Thanks to snobb for the addition