The Earl Bostic Story

Tracklist

• CD 1: The Major and the Minor
• 1
  The Man I Love
  3:17
• 2
  Hurricane Blues
  3:11
• 3
  The Major and the Minor
  2:55
• 4
  All On
  3:14
• 5
  Liza
  3:07
• 6
  That's the Groovy Thing - Part A
  3:09
• 7
  Tippin' In
  2:32
• 8
  Baby, You Don't Know It All
  2:48
• 9
  Jumpin' Jack
  2:47
• 10
  That's the Groovy Thing - Part B
  3:01
• 11
  The Barefoot Boy
  2:53
• 12
  That's the Heat You Gotta Beat
  2:48
• 13
  Let's Ball Tonight, Part 1
  2:58
• 14
  Let's Ball Tonight, Part 2
  2:41
• 15
  Away
  2:57
• 16
  Where or When
  2:44
• 17
  Cuttin' Out
  3:06
• 18
  My Special Dream
  2:48
• 19
  I'm the Guy Who Loves You
  3:07
• 20
  Here Goes
  3:02
• 21
  Bostic's Jump
  2:39
• 22
  Earl's Rumboogie
  2:40
• 23
  Hot Sauce Boss
  2:33
• 24
  845 Stomp
  2:35
• 25
  Disc Jockey's Nightmare
  2:31
• 26
  Slightly Groovy
  2:53
• 27
  Bar Fly Baby
  2:45
• CD 2: Earl Blows a Fuse
• 1
  Artistry by Bostic
  3:06
• 2
  Scotch Jam
  2:36
• 3
  Apollo Theatre Jump
  2:34
• 4
  Serenade to Beauty
  2:38
• 5
  Tiger Rag
  2:42
• 6
  The Man I Love
  2:39
• 7
  Temptation
  2:39
• 8
  Bostic's Boogie Blues
  2:30
• 9
  Joy Dust
  2:50
• 10
  Wild Man
  2:35
• 11
  Watch Where You Walk Boy
  3:12
• 12
  Blib Boogie
  2:57
• 13
  From Midnight Till Dawn
  2:55
• 14
  Swing Low Sweet Boogie
  2:48
• 15
  Earl's Imagination
  2:56
• 16
  Earl Blows a Fuse
  2:47
• 17
  Nay Nay Go Away
  2:35
• 18
  Who Snuck the Wine in the Gravy
  2:51
• 19
  Earl's Blues
  2:35
• 20
  Sugar Hill Blues
  2:45
• 21
  Choppin' It Down
  2:44
• 22
  Filibuster
  2:42
• 23
  No Name Blues
  2:42
• 24
  Serenade
  3:01
• 25
  Seven Steps
  2:39
• 26
  Portrait of a Faded Love
  2:42
• 27
  Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
  2:44
• CD 3: Flamingo
• 1
  Way Down
  2:38
• 2
  Don't You Do It
  3:00
• 3
  Merry Widow Waltz
  2:37
• 4
  Wrap It Up
  2:55
• 5
  Rockin' and Reelin'
  2:44
• 6
  September Song
  3:04
• 7
  I Can't Give You Anything but Love
  2:52
• 8
  Flamingo
  2:43
• 9
  Sleep
  3:11
• 10
  How Could It Have Been You and I
  3:30
• 11
  Always
  3:00
• 12
  I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
  2:55
• 13
  The Moon Is Low
  2:51
• 14
  Lover Come Back to Me
  2:27
• 15
  Chains of Love
  3:18
• 16
  I Got Loaded
  2:33
• 17
  Velvet Sunset
  2:55
• 18
  Moonglow
  2:41
• 19
  Linger Awhile
  3:08
• 20
  Ain't Misbehaving
  2:27
• 21
  You Go to My Head
  3:14
• 22
  The Hour of Parting
  2:27
• 23
  Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
  2:30
• 24
  For You
  2:19
• 25
  Sheik of Araby
  2:48
• 26
  Cherokee
  3:02
• 27
  Steamwhistle Jump
  3:01
• CD 4: Cracked Ice
• 1
  The Song Is Ended
  3:01
• 2
  Melancholy Serenade
  2:32
• 3
  The Very Thought of You
  2:40
• 4
  Memories
  3:01
• 5
  What, No Pearls?
  2:48
• 6
  Smoke Rings
  2:58
• 7
  Deep Purple
  2:28
• 8
  Jungle Dreams
  2:50
• 9
  Cracked Ice
  2:40
• 10
  Danube Waves
  2:33
• 11
  Poeme
  2:49
• 12
  My Heart at the Sweet Voice
  2:42
• 13
  O Sole Mio
  2:28
• 14
  Off Shore
  2:53
• 15
  Blue Skies
  2:50
• 16
  Mambostic
  2:33
• 17
  Time on My Hands
  2:36
• 18
  Mambolino
  2:37
• 19
  These Foolish Things
  2:39
• 20
  Song of the Island
  2:46
• 21
  Liebestraum
  2:57
• 22
  Night and Day
  3:38
• 23
  Sweet Lorraine
  2:46
• 24
  Beyond the Blue Horizon
  2:30
• 25
  East of the Sun
  2:40

More by Earl Bostic

Complete Quintet Recordings

Complete Quintet Recordings 2015

14 Greatest Hits

14 Greatest Hits 2009

Blues & Rhythm Series: The Chronological Earl Bostic 1954-1955

Blues & Rhythm Series: The Chronological Earl Bostic 1954-1955 2007

Blues & Rhythm Series: The Chronological Earl Bostic 1952-1953

Blues & Rhythm Series: The Chronological Earl Bostic 1952-1953 2004

Flamingo

Flamingo 2003

Blues & Rhythm Series: The Chronological Earl Bostic 1949-1951

Blues & Rhythm Series: The Chronological Earl Bostic 1949-1951 2002

Release credits

• Al Hall
  double bass [1-4]
• Benny Harris
  trumpet [1-4]
• Benny Morton
  trombone [1-4]
• Charles “Specs” Wright
  drums (drum set) [18-20, 22-24]
• Claude Jones
  trombone [1-4]
• Cozy Cole
  drums (drum set) [1-4]
• Dick Vance
  trumpet [1-4]
• Don Byas
  tenor saxophone [1-4]
• Earl Bostic
  alto saxophone [3.18-20, 3.22-24, 1.1-5], arranger [1-4], clarinet [18-20, 22-24], guitar [18-20, 22-24], trumpet [18-20, 22-24], vocal [2]
• Ed Nicholson
  drums (drum set) [5]
• Eddie Barefield
  clarinet [1-4]
• Edwin Finckel
  piano [1-4]
• Gene Redd
  trumpet [18-20, 22-24], vibraphone [18-20, 22-24]
• George Parker
  piano [5]
• Harold Grant
  guitar [22-24]
• Ike Isaacs
  double bass [18-20, 22-24]
• Jimmy Jones
  bass [5]
• Jimmy Shirley
  guitar [3.18-20, 1.5]
• Joe Knight
  piano [18-20, 22-24]
• Joe Mitchell
  trumpet [18-20, 22-24]
• John Coltrane
  tenor saxophone [18-20, 22-24]
• John Hardee
  tenor saxophone [5]
• Leamon Boler
  trumpet [5]
• Pinky Williams
  alto saxophone [18-20, 22-24], baritone saxophone [18-20, 22-24]
• Roger Jones
  trumpet [1-4]
• The Three B's
  vocal [18-20, 22-24]
• Tiny Grimes
  electric guitar [1-4]
• Tony Scott
  clarinet [5]
• Walter "Foots" Thomas
  tenor saxophone [1-4]
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Issues

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  The Earl Bostic Story

  4x CD
  13 November 2006