A Life in Jazz

Tracklist

• 1
  Oh, Lonesome Me
  2:10
• 2
  Chattanooga Choo‐Choo
  3:05
• 3
  It Had to Be You
  2:42
• 4
  Georgia on My Mind
  3:37
• 5
  You Are My Sunshine
  2:58
• 6
  Come Back Baby
  3:07
• 7
  Am I Blue
  3:36
• 8
  My Melancholy Baby
  4:25
• 9
  Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’
  3:44
• 10
  I Want a Little Girl
  2:55
• 11
  Two Years of Torture
  3:24
• 12
  Let the Good Times Roll
  2:51
• 13
  Doodlin’
  5:58
• 14
  Early in the Mornin’
  2:47
• 15
  Drown in My Own Tears
  3:21
  4.0 ★
• 16
  I Got a Woman
  2:54
  4.6 ★
• 17
  Someday (1)
  3:10
• 18
  Funny but I Still Love You
  3:15
• 19
  Ruby
  3:57
• 20
  The Right Time
  3:25
  5.0 ★
• 21
  Alexander’s Ragtime Band
  2:51
• 22
  Feelin’ Sad
  2:51
• 23
  When Your Lover Has Gone
  2:49
• 24
  The Midnight Hour
  3:01
  4.0 ★
• 25
  I Surrender Dear
  5:11
• 26
  A Fool for You
  3:03
• 27
  Undecided
  3:40
• 28
  I Had a Dream
  2:54
• 29
  Black Jack
  2:20
• 30
  Deed I Do
  2:25
• 31
  Someday (2)
  2:40
• 32
  Don’t Tell Me Your Troubles
  2:07
• 33
  No Letter Today
  3:01
• 34
  Bye Bye Love
  2:11
• 35
  Hey, Good Lookin’
  2:12
• 36
  It Makes No Difference Now
  3:35
• 37
  Midnight
  3:17
• 38
  Half as Much
  3:25
• 39
  Come Rain or Come Shine
  3:39
• 40
  Just a Little Lovin’
  3:29

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Release credits

• Ahmet Ertegun
  producer [12, 14-16, 20, 22, 24, 26]
• Bennie Crawford
  baritone saxophone [14]
• Billy Mitchell
  tenor saxophone [11]
• Cecil Payne
  baritone saxophone [15]
• Charles "Clanky" Whitley
  trumpet [16, 29]
• Clark Terry
  trumpet [11-12]
• Connie Kay
  drums (drum set) [24]
• Dave McRae
  alto saxophone [24], baritone saxophone [24]
• David “Fathead” Newman
  alto saxophone [13, 20, 25-26], baritone saxophone [16, 26, 29], solo [20], tenor saxophone [11-14, 25]
• Don Wilkerson
  solo [16], tenor saxophone [15-16, 26, 29]
• Earle Brown
  recording [13, 25]
• Edgar Willis
  bass [14, 20]
• Emmott Dennis
  baritone saxophone [13, 25]
• Ernie Royal
  trumpet [11-12]
• Frank Mitchell
  trumpet [22]
• Frank Wess
  flute [11-12], saxophone [11-12]
• Glenn Brooks
  drums (drum set) [16, 29]
• Hank Crawford
  baritone saxophone [20]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer [11-16, 20, 22, 24-26]
• Jesse Drakes
  trumpet [24]
• Jesse Stone
  arranger [24]
• Jimmy Bell
  bass [16, 29]
• Joe Bridgewater
  trumpet [13, 15-16, 25-26, 29]
• Joe Newman
  trumpet [11-12]
• Joe Tillman
  tenor saxophone [22]
• John Hunt
  trumpet [13-14, 25]
• Joshua Willis
  trumpet [15]
• Leiber & Stoller
  producer [20]
• Lloyd Lambert
  bass [22]
• Lloyd Trotman
  double bass [24]
• Marcus Belgrave
  trumpet [11-12, 14, 20]
• Margie Hendrix
  vocal [20]
• Marshall Royal
  alto saxophone [11-12]
• Melba Liston
  trombone [11-12]
• Mickey Baker
  guitar [24]
• Milt Turner
  drums (drum set) [20]
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  producer [11-13, 25]
• O'Neil Gerald
  alto saxophone [22]
• Oscar Moore
  drums (drum set) [22]
• Panama Francis
  drums (drum set) [15]
• Paul Gonsalves
  tenor saxophone [11-12]
• Paul West
  double bass [15]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [11-12]
• Quincy Jones
  arranger [11-13]
• Ray Charles
  arranger [15-16, 20, 26], celesta [25], electric piano [20], organ [14], piano [11-16, 22, 24-26, 29], vocal [11-12, 14-16, 20, 22, 24, 26, 29]
• Ricky Harper
  trumpet [20]
• Riley Webb
  trumpet [26]
• Roosevelt Sheffield
  bass [26], double bass [13, 25]
• Sam “The Man” Taylor
  tenor saxophone [24]
• Snookie Young
  trumpet [11-12]
• Teagle Fleming
  drums (drum set) [14]
• The Raelettes
  background vocals [20]
• Tom Dowd
  recording [13, 25]
• Wallace Davenport
  trumpet [22]
• Warren Bell
  baritone saxophone [22]
• Wesley Jackson
  guitar [16, 29]
• William Peeples
  drums (drum set) [13, 25-26]
• Zoot Sims
  tenor saxophone [12]
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  A Life in Jazz

  Digital Media
  20 November 2012