Plays the Blues

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  St. Louis Blues [1935]
  3:30
• 2
  Limehouse Blues [1935]
  3:11
• 3
  Limehouse Blues [1936]
  2:46
• 4
  P.B. Flat Blues
  2:55
• 5
  St. Louis Blues [1937]
  2:42
• 6
  Eddie's Blues
  3:07
• 7
  Big Boy Blues
  3:26
• 8
  Bill Coleman Blues
  2:47
• 9
  Fiddle Blues
  2:46
• 10
  Minor Swing [1937]
  3:15
• 11
  Stephen's Blues
  3:16
• 12
  Blues
  3:02
• 13
  Blue Light Blues
  3:06
• 14
  Farewell Blues
  3:16
• 15
  Solid Old Man
  3:05
• 16
  Low Cotton
  3:02
• 17
  Blues of Yesterday
  2:35
• 18
  Boogie Woogie, Pts. 1 & 2 [1940]
  5:26
• 19
  Limehouse Blues [1940]
  2:28
• 20
  Blues [Blues en Mineur]
  3:10
• 21
  Noël Blues
  2:58
• 22
  Swinging the Blues
  2:11
• 23
  Blues en Mineur
  2:51
• 24
  Blues Clair
  3:03
• 25
  Zuiderzee Blues
  2:39
• 26
  Blues D'autrefois
  2:33
• CD 2
• 1
  Uptown Blues
  4:08
• 2
  Uptown Blues
  3:17
• 3
  A Blues Riff
  3:48
• 4
  Blues
  2:37
• 5
  Minor Blues [1947]
  2:46
• 6
  Blues for Barclay [Take 2 Master]
  2:51
• 7
  Blues for Barclay [Take 1 Alternate]
  2:59
• 8
  Django's Blues
  3:04
• 9
  Blues Clair [1947]
  2:41
• 10
  Minor Swing [1947]
  2:49
• 11
  Blues Primitif
  2:41
• 12
  Blues en Mineur
  3:27
• 13
  St. Louis Blues [1947]
  4:07
• 14
  Minor Blues [1949]
  2:43
• 15
  Minor Swing [1949]
  2:37
• 16
  C Jam Blues [1949]
  2:36
• 17
  Minor Swing [1950]
  2:25
• 18
  Royal Garden Blues
  2:39
• 19
  St. Louis Blues [1950]
  4:05
• 20
  C Jam Blues [1950]
  3:34
• 21
  Boogie Woogie
  3:26
• 22
  Blues [Jam Session]
  4:01
• 23
  Blues
  2:52
• 24
  Blues for Ike
  3:21
• 25
  D.R. Blues
  3:09

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Release credits

• Al Sears
  tenor saxophone [3]
• André Ekyan
  alto saxophone [16], clarinet [16]
• Claude Jones
  trombone [3]
• Django Reinhardt
  electric guitar [3, 16, 25], guest [3]
• Django Reinhardt et son quintette
  performer [25]
• Duke Ellington
  piano [3]
• François Vermeille
  piano [16]
• Fred Guy
  guitar [3]
• Gaston Léonard
  drums (drum set) [16]
• Harold “Shorty” Baker
  trumpet [3]
• Harry Carney
  reeds [3]
• Jean Bouchéty
  double bass [16]
• Jimmy Hamilton
  reeds [3]
• Johnny Hodges
  alto saxophone [3]
• Lawrence Brown
  trombone [3]
• Maurice Vander
  piano [25]
• Oscar Pettiford
  double bass [3]
• Pierre Lemarchand
  drums (drum set) [25]
• Pierre Michelot
  double bass [25]
• Ray Nance
  trumpet [3]
• Russell Procope
  reeds [3]
• Shelton "Scad" Hemphill
  trumpet [3]
• Sonny Greer
  drums (drum set) [3]
• Taft Jordan
  trumpet [3]
• Wilbur de Paris
  trombone [3]
• William “Cat” Anderson
  trumpet [3]
• Show all credits (26)

Issues

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  Plays the Blues

  2x CD
  15 June 2010