First Issue: The Great American Songbook

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Blue Moon
  3:32
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Nice Work If You Can Get It
  3:50
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Yesterdays
  2:52
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Easy to Love
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Prelude to a Kiss
  5:34
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Day in, Day Out
  6:50
• 7
  I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
  3:59
• 8
  Embraceable You
  6:50
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Love Is Here to Stay
  3:44
  5.0 ★
• 10
  Too Marvelous for Words
  2:14
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Cheek to Cheek
  3:38
• 12
  Come Rain or Shine
  4:25
• 13
  Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
  3:26
• 14
  I Thought About You
  2:48
  5.0 ★
• 15
  A Fine Romance
  3:36
• 16
  P.S. I Love You
  3:38
• 17
  Always
  3:57
  4.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
  5:03
• 2
  I Get a Kick Out of You
  5:43
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Say It Isn’t So
  3:19
  4.0 ★
• 4
  How Deep Is the Ocean?
  3:00
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Trav’lin’ Light
  3:10
• 6
  Remember
  2:37
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Stormy Weather
  3:45
  5.0 ★
• 8
  One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
  5:42
  4.0 ★
• 9
  But Not for Me
  3:51
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Solitude
  3:32
  5.0 ★
• 11
  I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
  5:54
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Just One of Those Things
  5:34
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Love for Sale
  3:00
  4.0 ★
• 14
  A Foggy Day
  4:43
  3.5 ★
• 15
  All of You
  2:34
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Sophisticated Lady
  4:51
  4.0 ★
• 17
  They Can’t Take That Away From Me
  4:09
  3.5 ★

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Release credits

• Al Cohn
  tenor saxophone [15]
• Alvin Stoller
  drums (drum set) [2.3, 2.8-10, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16, 1.1, 1.4, 1.9, 1.11]
• Barney Kessel
  electric guitar [14, 17], guitar [1.1, 1.4, 1.8-11, 1.14, 2.3, 2.8-10, 2.12, 2.16-17]
• Barry Galbraith
  guitar [15]
• Ben Webster
  tenor saxophone [1.8-9, 1.11, 2.3, 2.8-9, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16-17]
• Billie Holiday
  vocal [2.1-17, 2.17, 1.1-17]
• Billy Bauer
  electric guitar [17]
• Billy Byers
  trombone [15]
• Billy Taylor
  piano [17]
• Bobby Tucker
  piano [10, 14]
• Budd Johnson
  tenor saxophone [17]
• Charlie Shavers
  trumpet [2.10, 1.1, 1.4, 1.17]
• Chico Hamilton
  drums (drum set) [10, 14]
• Cozy Cole
  drums (drum set) [17]
• Danny Bank
  baritone saxophone [15]
• Flip Phillips
  tenor saxophone [1.1, 1.4, 2.10]
• Freddie Green
  guitar [7]
• Gus Johnson
  drums (drum set) [7]
• Hank Jones
  piano [15]
• Harry “Sweets” Edison
  trumpet [1.8-11, 1.14, 2.3, 2.8-9, 2.12, 2.14-17]
• Jimmy Rowles
  piano [2.3, 2.8-9, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16-17, 1.8-9, 1.11]
• Joe Mondragon
  double bass [1.11, 2.3, 2.8, 2.17]
• Joe Newman
  trumpet [7]
• Joe Wilder
  trumpet [15]
• Larry Bunker
  drums (drum set) [1.8, 2.8, 2.17]
• Leonard Gaskin
  double bass [17]
• Milt Hinton
  double bass [15]
• Norman Granz
  producer [2.3, 2.8-9, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16-17, 1.8-9]
• Oscar Peterson
  piano [1.1, 1.4, 2.7, 2.10]
• Osie Johnson
  drums (drum set) [15]
• Paul Quinichette
  tenor saxophone [7]
• Ray Brown
  double bass [1.1, 1.4, 2.7, 2.10]
• Ray Ellis
  vocal [15]
• Red Callender
  double bass [10, 14]
• Red Mitchell
  double bass [2.9, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16-17, 1.8-9]
• Tony Scott
  clarinet [17]
• Val Valentin
  engineer [2.9, 1.8]
• Willie Smith
  alto saxophone [10, 14]
• Show all credits (38)

Issues

• 

  F
  First Issue: The Great American Song Book

  2x CD
  21 June 1994
• F
  First Issue: The Great American Songbook

  2x CD
  1994
• 

  F
  First Issue: The Great American Songbook

  2x CD
  1995