The Complete RCA Victor Mid-Forties Recordings

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues
  2:41
• 2
  I'm Beginning to See the Light (take 1)
  3:12
• 3
  I'm Beginning to See the Light (take 2)
  3:11
• 4
  Don't You Know I Care (take 1)
  3:06
• 5
  Don't You Know I Care (take 2)
  2:58
• 6
  I Didn't Know About You
  2:44
• 7
  Work Song
  4:35
• 8
  Come Sunday
  4:30
• 9
  The Blues
  4:32
• 10
  Three Dances
  4:34
• 11
  Carnegie Blues
  2:47
• 12
  Blue Cellophane
  2:54
• 13
  Mood to Be Wooed
  2:58
• 14
  (All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings
  2:51
• 15
  Kissing Bug
  3:01
• 16
  Everything but You
  2:51
• 17
  (Otto Make That) Riff Staccato
  3:04
• 18
  Prelude to a Kiss
  3:00
• 19
  Caravan
  2:46
• 20
  Black and Tan Fantasy
  2:48
• 21
  Mood Indigo
  2:47
• 22
  In a Sentimental Mood
  3:01
• CD 2
• 1
  It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
  3:00
• 2
  Sophisticated Lady
  2:39
• 3
  Tonight I Shall Sleep (with a Smile on My Face)
  2:55
• 4
  The Minor Goes Muggin'
  3:02
• 5
  I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart (take 1)
  3:03
• 6
  I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart (take 2)
  3:02
• 7
  Solitude
  3:04
• 8
  Frankie and Johnny
  3:02
• 9
  Jumpin' Room Only
  2:56
• 10
  Black Beauty
  2:49
• 11
  Every Hour on the Hour
  3:04
• 12
  Balcony Serenade
  3:09
• 13
  Strange Feeling
  3:13
• 14
  Dancers in Love
  2:20
• 15
  Coloratura (take 2)
  2:57
• 16
  Coloratura (take 1)
  2:58
• 17
  Things Ain't What They Used to Be
  3:07
• 18
  Tell Ya What I'm Gonna Do
  2:47
• 19
  Come to Baby, Do!
  2:49
• 20
  I'm Just a Lucky So and So
  3:09
• 21
  Long, Strong and Consecutive
  2:54
• 22
  The Wonder of You
  2:45
• 23
  Tonk
  2:47
• 24
  Drawing Room Blues
  3:37
• CD 3
• 1
  Rockabye River
  3:02
• 2
  Suddenly It Jumped
  2:47
• 3
  Transblucency
  3:00
• 4
  Just Squeeze Me (but Don’t Tease Me)
  3:20
• 5
  A Gathering in a Clearing
  3:10
• 6
  You Don’t Love Me No More
  3:26
• 7
  Pretty Woman
  2:46
• 8
  Hey, Baby
  2:48
• 9
  (Back Home Again in) Indiana
  2:48
• 10
  Blue Is the Night
  3:06
• 11
  Lover Man (take 1)
  3:20
• 12
  Lover Man (take 2)
  3:19
• 13
  Just You, Just Me
  2:53
• 14
  Beale Street Blues
  2:53
• 15
  Memphis Blues
  3:04
• 16
  St. Louis Blues
  2:59
• 17
  My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms
  3:10
• 18
  (I Don’t Stand) A Ghost of a Chance (With You)
  3:03
• 19
  Swamp Fire
  2:51
• 20
  Royal Garden Blues
  3:08
• 21
  Esquire Swank
  3:28
• 22
  Midriff
  3:16

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Release credits

• Al Hibbler
  vocal [2.7, 2.11, 2.13, 2.20, 1.1, 1.4-5, 3.6-7]
• Al Sears
  tenor saxophone [3.1-22, 2.1, 2.5-7, 2.10-13, 2.15-22, 1.1-22]
• Babe Fresk
  tenor saxophone [4]
• Billy Strayhorn
  piano [23-24]
• Bob Bain
  guitar [4]
• Bob Haggart
  double bass [2.1-5, 2.7, 1.22]
• Bruce Branson
  alto saxophone [4], baritone saxophone [4]
• Buddy Rich
  drums (drum set) [4]
• Charlie Shavers
  trumpet [4]
• Claude Jones
  trombone [2.1-3, 2.5-7, 2.10-13, 2.15-22, 3.1-22, 1.1-22], valve trombone [8]
• Dick Noel
  trombone [4]
• Duke Ellington
  piano
• Francis Williams
  trumpet [1-22]
• Fred Guy
  guitar [3.1-22, 2.1-3, 2.5-7, 2.10-13, 2.15-22, 1.1-15, 1.18-22]
• George Seaberg
  trumpet [4]
• Gerald Goff
  trumpet [4]
• Gus Bivona
  alto saxophone [4], clarinet [4], reeds [4]
• Harold “Shorty” Baker
  trumpet [1-22]
• Harry Carney
  baritone saxophone [1.7-10, 3.4, 3.8, 2.10-13, 2.16], clarinet [1.7-10, 3.4, 3.8], reeds [2.1-3, 2.5-7, 2.10-13, 2.15, 2.17-22, 3.1-3, 3.5-22, 1.1-9, 1.11-22]
• Hillard Brown
  drums (drum set) [1, 3, 5-14]
• Jimmy Hamilton
  clarinet [2.10-11, 3.4, 3.8, 1.7-10], reeds [1.1-9, 1.11-22, 3.1-3, 3.5-22, 2.1-3, 2.5-7, 2.10-13, 2.15-17, 2.20-22], tenor saxophone [1.7-10, 2.10-11, 3.4, 3.8]
• Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton
  trombone [3.1-8, 1.1-22, 2.1-3, 2.5-7, 2.10-13, 2.15-19]
• Johnny Hodges
  alto saxophone [1.1-22, 2.1-3, 2.5-7, 2.10-13, 2.15-22, 3.1-22]
• Joseph Park
  tuba [4]
• Joya Sherrill
  vocal [2.1, 2.5-7, 2.21-22, 1.2-3, 1.6, 1.9, 1.14-16]
• Junior Raglin
  double bass [1.1-7, 1.7-8, 1.8-9, 1.9-21, 2.8-19]
• Karl DeKarske
  trombone [4]
• Kay Davis
  vocal [2.1, 2.7, 3.3, 1.1, 1.21]
• Lawrence Brown
  trombone [1.1-13, 1.13-22, 3.1-22, 2.1-3, 2.5-7, 2.10-13, 2.15-22]
• Marian Cox
  vocal [11-12, 16, 18]
• Marie Ellington
  vocal [1, 7]
• Mary Lou Williams
  arranger [17]
• Oscar Pettiford
  double bass [3.1-22, 2.20-22]
• Otto Hardwick
  alto saxophone [1.1, 1.3, 1.5-22, 2.1-3, 2.5-7, 2.10-13, 2.16], reeds [1.1-6, 1.11-14, 2.15, 2.17-19]
• Ray Nance
  cornet [3], lead vocals [8], trumpet [3.1-4, 3.8-22, 1.1-13, 1.15-22, 2.1-3, 2.5-7, 2.10-13, 2.15-19], violin [2.10-13, 3.4, 1.7-8, 1.14], vocal [1.17, 3.4, 3.8, 3.17]
• Rex Stewart
  cornet [1.11-14, 2.10-13, 2.16], trumpet [2.1-3, 2.5-7, 2.10-13, 2.15, 2.17-22, 1.11-22]
• Russell Procope
  alto saxophone [3.1-4, 3.8-22, 2.20-22], reeds [3, 5-8]
• Sandy Block
  double bass [4]
• Shelton "Scad" Hemphill
  trumpet [2.1-3, 2.5-7, 2.10-13, 2.15-22, 3.1-22, 1.1-22]
• Sid Catlett
  drums (drum set) [18-19]
• Sid Cooper
  alto saxophone [4]
• Sid Weiss
  double bass [5-7]
• Sonny Greer
  drums (drum set) [3.1-22, 1.1-22, 2.1-3, 2.5-13, 2.15-17, 2.20-22]
• Sy Oliver
  arranger [4]
• Taft Jordan
  trumpet [1.1-22, 3.1-22, 2.1-3, 2.5-7, 2.10-13, 2.15-22]
• Tex Satterwhite
  trombone [4]
• Tommy Dorsey
  trombone [3-4]
• Vido Musso
  tenor saxophone [4]
• Vito N. Mangano
  trumpet [4]
• Wilbur de Paris
  trombone [2.20-22, 3.1-22]
• William “Cat” Anderson
  trumpet [3.1-22, 1.1-22, 2.1-3, 2.5-7, 2.10-13, 2.15-22]
• [unknown]
  cello [4], harp [4], viola [4], violin [4]
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Issues

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  The Complete RCA Victor Mid-Forties Recordings

  3x CD
  4 April 2000