The Legendary Big Band

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  I Got a Date With Rhythm
  2:57
• 2
  I Stay in the Mood for You
  2:53
• 3
  Good Jelly Blues
  2:55
• 4
  If That’s the Way You Feel
  2:40
• 5
  I Want to Talk About You
  2:36
• 6
  Blowing the Blues Away (single)
  3:11
• 7
  Blowing the Blues Away (album)
  3:05
• 8
  Opus X
  2:36
• 9
  I’ll Wait and Pray
  2:43
• 10
  The Real Thing Happened to Me
  2:43
• 11
  Lonesome Lover Blues
  2:46
• 12
  A Cottage for Sale
  2:47
• 13
  (I Love the) Rhythm in a Riff
  2:49
• 14
  Prisoner of Love
  2:53
• 15
  It Ain’t Like That
  2:52
• 16
  I’m in the Mood for Love
  2:55
• 17
  You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love)
  3:00
• 18
  Long, Long Journey
  3:07
• 19
  I Only Have Eyes for You
  2:33
• 20
  You’re My Everything
  2:46
• 21
  The Jitney Man
  2:54
• CD 2
• 1
  Second Balcony Jump
  2:56
• 2
  Tell Me, Pretty Baby
  2:55
• 3
  Love Is the Thing
  2:21
• 4
  Without a Song
  2:51
• 5
  Cool Breeze
  2:52
• 6
  Don’t Take Your Love From Me
  2:55
• 7
  Oop Bop Sh’Bam
  3:03
• 8
  Oop Bop Sh’Bam (alternate)
  2:59
• 9
  In the Still of the Night
  2:52
• 10
  Jelly, Jelly
  3:17
• 11
  Jelly, Jelly – Alternate
  2:58
• 12
  All of Me
  2:31
• 13
  Where Are You?
  2:41
• 14
  Prelude to a Kiss
  2:53
• 15
  (She’s Got the) Blues for Sale
  2:59
• 16
  (She’s Got the) Blues for Sale (alternate)
  3:20
• 17
  What’s New?
  2:55
• 18
  Serenade in Blue
  2:50
• 19
  In My Solitude
  2:51
• 20
  Sophisticated Lady
  2:52

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Release credits

• Art Blakey
  drums (drum set) [12]
• Billy Eckstine
  conductor [12], valve trombone [12], vocal [12]
• Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [12]
• Budd Johnson
  alto saxophone [12]
• Chippy Outcalt
  trombone [12]
• Connie Wainwright
  guitar [12]
• Dexter Gordon
  tenor saxophone [12]
• Fats Navarro
  trumpet [12]
• Gail Brockman
  trumpet [12]
• Gene Ammons
  tenor saxophone [12]
• Gerald Valentine
  trombone [12]
• Howard Scott
  trombone [12]
• John Malachi
  piano [12]
• Leo Parker
  baritone saxophone [12]
• Marion "Boonie" Hazel
  trumpet [12]
• Shorty McConnell
  trumpet [12]
• Sonny Stitt
  alto saxophone [12]
• Taswell Baird
  tenor saxophone [12], trombone [12]
• Tommy Potter
  double bass [12]
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Issues

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  The Legendary Big Band

  2x CD
  2002