The Complete 1946–1954 Paris Recordings

Compilation by Don Byas Quartet

Released 2011

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
Gloria
3:07
2
I’m Beginning to See the Light
2:24
3
Rosetta
2:48
4
Ain’t Misbehavin’
2:45
5
Body and Soul
2:57
6
Blue and Sentimental
2:43
7
All the Things You Are (fast version)
2:41
8
All the Things You Are (slow version)
2:47
9
Yesterdays
2:30
10
Tenderly
3:28
11
C’est vous chérie
2:56
12
Trop jeune
3:30
13
Vanity
2:52
14
Because of You
3:32
15
Chloe
2:56
16
And So to Sleep Again
3:27
17
Infidèle (Cry)
3:27
18
Slow Coach (Slow Poke)
2:41
19
Un amour pleurait
3:02
20
This Is Always
2:49
21
A Cottage for Sale
2:49
22
En ce temps‐là
2:32
23
Là‐bas
2:40
24
Somebody Loves Me
2:52
25
I Cover the Waterfront
4:04
26
Don’t Blame Me
3:41
CD 2
1
Old Folks at Home
3:17
2
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
2:56
3
Riviera Blues (Blues à la don)
3:02
4
You Can Depend on Me
2:28
5
That Old Feeling
2:26
6
Laura
4:15
7
Wheel of Fortune
2:53
8
Please Monsieur Soleil
3:25
9
Roses of Picardie
2:58
10
L’Enfant et la Rose
2:41
11
I Heard a Rhapsody
3:48
12
Pleurs
3:02
13
Remember My Forgotten Man
3:17
14
If I Had You
3:36
15
Lover Man
3:58
16
I Can’t Give You Anything but Love
2:47
17
O.W.
5:09
18
Mary’s Waltz
2:56
19
Lullaby of the Leaves
4:10
20
Moonglow
3:53
21
Why
4:19
22
New Musical Express
3:24
23
G.D.B.
3:55
CD 3
1
Time on My Hands
2:27
2
Blues for Don Carlos
3:51
3
Sweet Lorraine
2:35
4
April in Paris
2:52
5
Don’t Blame Me
3:03
6
[unknown original]
2:53
7
Makin’ Whoopee
5:00
8
I Should Care
4:39
9
Beryl Booker’s Byased Blues
4:51
10
These Foolish Things
3:05
11
Humoresque
2:52
12
Stormy Weather
3:11
13
Riffin’ and Jivin’
2:49
14
I Can’t Explain
2:29
15
Blues for Panassié
2:52
16
Summertime
2:48
17
It’s the Talk of the Town
3:26
18
Stardust
3:16
19
A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody
2:56
20
Ol’ Man River
2:46
21
Flamingo
2:54
22
The Man I Love
2:43
23
Georgia on My Mind
2:49
24
Over the Rainbow
2:46
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Vot's Dot / September in the Rain

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Slamboree / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Slamboree / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 1946

Release credits

Alvin "Buddy" Banks
double bass [17-22]
Armand Molinetti
drums (drum set) [10-15]
Art Simmons
piano [1.16-26, 3.16-21, 2.1-6]
Benny Bennet
drums (drum set) [2.7-16, 1.10-15, 3.22-24]
Bernard Peiffer
piano [7-9]
Beryl Booker
piano [7-9], vocal [9]
Bill Clark
drums (drum set) [2.1-6, 1.20-26]
Billy Taylor
piano [1-6]
Bonnie Wetzel
double bass [7-9]
Buford Oliver
drums (drum set) [1, 5]
Claude Marty
drums (drum set) [16-21]
Don Byas
tenor saxophone
Elaine Leighton
drums (drum set) [7-9]
Gérard "Dave" Pochonet
drums (drum set) [17-22]
Jack Diéval
piano [10-15]
Jacques "Popof" Medvedko
double bass [22-24]
Jean Bouchéty
double bass [2-5, 5-9]
Jean-Jacques Tilché
guitar [10-21]
Jean-Pierre Sasson
guitar [22-24]
Joe Benjamin
double bass [1.20-26, 2.1-6]
Lucien Simoens
double bass [10-15]
Marcel Bianchi
guitar [7-12]
Martial Solal
piano [2.13-16, 2.23, 3.1-6]
Mary Lou Williams
piano [17-22]
Maurice Vander
piano [1.10-15, 3.22-24]
Pierre Lemarchand
drums (drum set) [2.23, 3.1-6, 1.16-19]
Pierre Michelot
double bass [1.10-19, 3.1-6, 2.7-16, 2.23]
Roger Grasset
double bass [16-21]
Roger Paraboschi
drums (drum set) [2-9]
Ted Sturgis
double bass [1]

Issues

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The Complete 1946–1954 Paris Recordings
3x CD
2011