This Is So Nice, It Must Be Illegal

Tracklist

• CD 1: Stomp
• 1
  Muscle Shoals Blues
  3:17
• 2
  Birmingham Blues
  2:59
• 3
  St. Louis Blues
  2:52
• 4
  Blue Black Bottom
  2:53
• 5
  Sugar (instrumental)
  3:01
• 6
  Fats Waller Stomp
  3:21
• 7
  Thou Swell
  3:02
• 8
  Handful of Keys
  2:46
• 9
  The Minor Drag
  2:39
• 10
  Harlem Fuss
  3:19
• 11
  Ain't Misbehavin'
  3:02
• 12
  Gladyse
  2:37
• 13
  I Need Someone Like You
  3:29
• 14
  Turn on the Heat
  2:25
• 15
  Ridin' but Walkin'
  2:28
• 16
  After You've Gone
  3:23
• 17
  I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby (and My Baby's Crazy 'Bout Me)
  3:04
• 18
  Royal Garden Blues
  3:01
• 19
  Draggin' My Heart Around
  3:19
• 20
  Do Me a Favour
  3:10
• 21
  Georgia May
  2:33
• 22
  Sweetie Pie
  3:05
• 23
  You're Not the Only Oyster in the Stew
  3:12
• 24
  Alligator Crawl
  2:39
• CD 2: Fractious Fingering
• 1
  Viper's Drag
  2:58
• 2
  You Fit Into the Picture
  2:27
• 3
  I Ain't Got Nobody (and Nobody Cares for Me) (vocal)
  3:01
• 4
  Rosetta (vocal)
  3:05
• 5
  Lulu's Back in Town
  2:37
• 6
  I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
  3:30
• 7
  Dinah
  3:05
• 8
  12th Street Rag
  2:49
• 9
  Sweet Sue, Just You
  2:54
• 10
  Sugar Blues
  2:50
• 11
  Rhythm and Romance
  3:15
• 12
  I've Got My Fingers Crossed
  2:39
• 13
  Sugar Rose
  3:10
• 14
  It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
  2:55
• 15
  You're Not the Kind
  3:08
• 16
  Fractious Fingering
  2:41
• 17
  Honeysuckle Rose
  3:07
• 18
  Blues
  2:59
• 19
  Blue, Turning Grey Over You
  4:26
• 20
  Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
  3:11
• 21
  Stardust
  3:14
• 22
  Basin Street Blues
  2:32
• 23
  Tea for Two
  3:22
• 24
  I Ain't Got Nobody
  3:07

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Release credits

• Al Casey
  guitar [2.2-6, 2.14-16, 2.19, 1.20-23]
• Albert Nicholas
  alto saxophone [13], reeds [15]
• Arnold Boling
  drums (drum set) [7-11, 14-15]
• Arville Harris
  alto saxophone [9], clarinet [9], reeds [10]
• Ben Whitted
  clarinet [20]
• Benny Goodman
  clarinet [17-18]
• Benny Payne
  piano [16]
• Bill Coleman
  trumpet [2]
• Billy Taylor Sr.
  double bass [20-23]
• Bunny Berigan
  trumpet [17-18]
• Charles Turner
  double bass [2-16, 19]
• Charlie Gaines
  trumpet [9-10]
• Charlie Holmes
  reeds [15]
• Charlie Irvis
  trombone [6, 9-10]
• Dave Klein
  trumpet [17-18]
• Dick McDonough
  guitar [17-18]
• Eddie Condon
  banjo [9-10, 13]
• Fats Waller
  celesta [4, 11, 13, 15], organ [7], piano [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.8-11, 1.13-24, 2.1-24], pipe organ [3, 5-7], solo [1.8, 2.1, 2.20, 2.24], vocal [2.2-15, 1.17-23]
• Fats Waller and His Buddies
  performer [10]
• Fats Waller and His Rhythm
  performer [6, 8, 12]
• Floyd O'Brien
  trombone [22-23]
• Four Wanderers
  choir vocals [13]
• Garvin Bushell
  reeds [7]
• Gene Krupa
  drums (drum set) [13]
• Gene Sedric
  clarinet [2, 12-13], reeds [12-16, 19], tenor saxophone [1.21, 2.12-13]
• George "Pops" Foster
  double bass [13, 15]
• George Brunies
  trombone [17-18]
• George Wettling
  drums (drum set) [17-18]
• Harry Barth
  double bass [17-18], tuba [17-18]
• Harry Dial
  drums (drum set) [1.20-23, 2.2-6]
• Henry “Red” Allen
  trumpet [13, 15]
• Herman Autrey
  trumpet [2.3-16, 2.19, 1.20-23]
• Hymie Wolfson
  tenor saxophone [17-18]
• J.C. Higginbotham
  trombone [15]
• Jabbo Smith
  cornet [7]
• Jack Teagarden
  trombone [13, 15], vibraphone [13, 15]
• James P. Johnson
  piano [7]
• James Smith
  guitar [7-13]
• John Lucas
  drums (drum set) [17-18]
• Kaiser Marshall
  drums (drum set) [15]
• Larry Binyon
  tenor saxophone [13, 15]
• Louis Martin
  alto saxophone [17-18], baritone saxophone [17-18]
• Mezz Mezzrow
  alto saxophone [22-23], clarinet [22-23]
• Muggsy Spanier
  cornet [17], trumpet [17-18]
• Otto Hardwick
  alto saxophone [13]
• Rudy Powell
  alto saxophone [3-11], clarinet [3-11], reeds [3, 6]
• Sam Blank
  trombone [17-18]
• Slick Jones
  drums (drum set) [19]
• Ted Lewis
  clarinet [17]
• Thomas Morris
  cornet [6]
• Tommy Dorsey
  trombone [17-18]
• Tony Girardi
  guitar [17-18]
• Will Johnson
  banjo [15]
• Yank Porter
  drums (drum set) [12-13, 16]
• Show all credits (54)

Issues

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  This Is So Nice, It Must Be Illegal

  2x CD
  20 April 2004