The Quintessence, Volume 1: Chicago - New York - Los Angeles 1936-1944

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Sometimes I’m Happy
  3:09
• 2
  Oh! Lady Be Good
  3:06
• 3
  Exercise in Swing
  2:59
• 4
  Beautiful Eyes
  3:03
• 5
  Dickie’s Dream
  3:08
• 6
  Taxi War Dance
  5:09
• 7
  Ad Lib Blues
  3:38
• 8
  I Got Rhythm
  4:09
• 9
  Pagin’ the Devil (studio version)
  2:52
• 10
  Pagin’ the Devil (live version)
  3:56
• 11
  Afternoon of a Basie-ite
  3:11
• 12
  I Can’t Get Started
  4:54
• 13
  When You’re Smiling
  2:51
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Salute to Fats
  2:57
• 15
  After Theater Jump
  5:07
• 16
  Upright Organ
  2:59
• 17
  Ghost of a Chance
  3:21
• 18
  Honeysuckle Rose
  14:01
• CD 2
• 1
  Blue Lester
  3:24
• 2
  Lester Leaps In
  3:17
• 3
  Lester Leaps in Again
  4:49
• 4
  Lester’s Dream
  3:19
• 5
  Jump, Lester, Jump
  3:18
• 6
  Dark Rapture
  2:37
• 7
  Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
  2:56
• 8
  Three Little Words
  2:55
• 9
  On the Sunny Side of the Street
  2:56
• 10
  Just You, Just Me
  3:11
• 11
  Countless Blues
  2:59
• 12
  Tickle Toe
  6:19
• 13
  You Can Depend on Me
  3:10
• 14
  These Foolish Things
  2:57
• 15
  Linger Awhile
  3:06
• 16
  Blitzkrieg Baby
  3:21
• 17
  Good Morning Blues
  3:51
• 18
  Oh! Lady Be Good
  9:39

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Release credits

• Al Hall
  double bass [8]
• Benny Goodman
  clarinet [4]
• Bill Coleman
  trumpet [8]
• Billie Holiday
  vocal [13]
• Billy Butterfield
  trumpet [3]
• Billy Taylor Sr.
  double bass [3]
• Buck Clayton
  solo [18], trumpet [4, 7]
• Carl Smith
  trumpet [2]
• Charlie Christian
  electric guitar [4]
• Clyde Hart
  piano [4]
• Count Basie
  piano [1.2, 2.4], solo [18]
• Cozy Cole
  drums (drum set) [3]
• Dexter Hall
  guitar [3]
• Dicky Wells
  trombone [8]
• Eddie Durham
  electric guitar [7], trombone [7]
• Ellis Larkins
  piano [8]
• Freddie Green
  guitar [1.8, 2.7], solo [18]
• Hank D'Amico
  clarinet [3]
• Harry Carney
  solo [18]
• Jo Jones
  drums (drum set) [1.2, 1.8, 2.4, 2.7]
• John Collins
  guitar [4]
• John Hammond
  producer [2]
• Johnny Guarnieri
  piano [1, 3]
• Johnny Hodges
  solo [18]
• Lester Young
  clarinet [7], solo [18], tenor saxophone [2.4, 2.7, 1.1-4, 1.8]
• Milt Gabler
  producer [7]
• Nick Fenton
  double bass [4]
• Shad Collins
  trumpet [4]
• Sid Catlett
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Slam Stewart
  double bass [1]
• Una Mae Carlisle
  vocal [4]
• Walter Page
  double bass [1.2, 2.4, 2.7], solo [18]
• ‘Doc’ West
  drums (drum set) [4]
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Issues

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  The Quintessence, Volume 1: Chicago - New York - Los Angeles 1936-1944

  2x CD
  1995