Best of Big Bands

Tracklist

• 1
  Minnie the Moocher
  3:17
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Beale Street Mama
  3:10
• 3
  Angeline
  2:54
• 4
  Bye Bye Blues
  2:54
• 5
  Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day
  3:10
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Dinah
  3:10
• 7
  Wake Up and Live
  2:27
• 8
  Pickin' Up the Cabbage
  2:47
• 9
  You Gotta Ho-Di-Ho
  3:10
  5.0 ★
• 10
  Reefer Man
  3:00
  4.0 ★
• 11
  The Jumpin' Jive
  2:50
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Manhattan Jam
  2:36
• 13
  I Gotta Go Places and Do Things
  2:47
• 14
  Eadie Was a Lady
  2:56
  5.0 ★
• 15
  Take the "A" Train
  3:04
  5.0 ★
• 16
  F.D.R. Jones
  2:19

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Release credits

• Al Morgan
  double bass [2-3, 6, 9, 13-14]
• Andrew Brown
  reeds [5-8, 16], saxophone [1-3, 9, 13-14]
• Arville Harris
  reeds [2-3, 5-6, 9, 13-14]
• Ben Webster
  tenor saxophone [7]
• Benny Payne
  piano [1-3, 5-9, 13-14, 16]
• Cab Calloway
  conductor [8], lead vocals [8], vocal [1-3, 5, 7-9, 13-14, 16]
• Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [8]
• Chauncey Haughton
  reeds [16]
• Claude Jones
  trombone [7, 16]
• Cozy Cole
  drums (drum set) [1, 8]
• Danny Barker
  guitar [1, 8, 16]
• DePriest Wheeler
  trombone [2-3, 5-7, 9, 13-14, 16]
• Dizzy Gillespie
  trumpet [8]
• Doc Cheatham
  trumpet [2-3, 6, 9, 13-14]
• Eddie Barefield
  reeds [2-3, 6, 9, 13-14]
• Edwin Swayze
  trumpet [2-3, 5-6, 9, 13-14]
• Garvin Bushell
  reeds [7]
• Harry White
  trombone [2-3, 5-6, 9, 13-14]
• Hilton Jefferson
  alto saxophone [1], reeds [8]
• Irving Randolph
  trumpet [7, 16]
• Jerry Blake
  reeds [1, 8]
• Jimmy Smith
  double bass [5]
• Jonah Jones
  trumpet [1]
• Keg Johnson
  trombone [1, 7-8, 16]
• Lammar Wright
  trumpet [1-3, 5-9, 13-14, 16]
• Leon “Chu” Berry
  tenor saxophone [8, 16]
• Leroy Maxey
  drums (drum set) [2-3, 5-7, 9, 13-14, 16]
• Mario Bauzá
  trumpet [8]
• Milt Hinton
  double bass [1, 7-8, 16]
• Morris White
  banjo [5-6], guitar [2-3, 7, 9, 13-14]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [1, 8]
• Reuben Reeves
  trumpet [5]
• Russell Smith
  trumpet [1]
• Shad Collins
  trumpet [1, 7, 16]
• Teddy McRae
  tenor saxophone [1]
• Tony Sellari
  art direction
• Tyree Glenn
  trombone [8]
• Walter "Foots" Thomas
  tenor saxophone [1, 7-8, 16], woodwind [2-3, 5-6, 9, 13-14]
• Will Friedwald
  liner notes
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Issues

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  B
  (Combined release view)
• 

  B
  Best of Big Bands

  CD
  1990
• 

  B
  Best of Big Bands

  CD (mono)
  1990