Genius + Soul = Jazz : Complete 1956 -1960 Sessions

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  From the Heart
  3:36
• 2
  I’ve Got News for You
  4:33
  1.0 ★
• 3
  Moanin’
  3:19
• 4
  Let’s Go
  2:43
• 5
  One Mint Julep
  3:06
• 6
  I’m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
  3:43
  2.0 ★
• 7
  Stompin’ Room Only
  3:47
• 8
  Mister C
  4:32
• 9
  Strike Up the Band
  2:37
• 10
  Birth of the Blues
  5:10
• 11
  Let the Good Times Roll
  2:51
• 12
  It Had to Be You
  2:42
• 13
  Alexander’s Ragtime Band
  2:51
• 14
  Two Years of Torture
  3:23
  1.0 ★
• 15
  When Your Lover Has Gone
  2:49
• 16
  Deed I Do
  2:25
• 17
  Just for a Thrill
  3:24
• 18
  You Won’t Let Me Go
  3:19
  1.0 ★
• 19
  Tell Me You’ll Wait for Me
  3:23
• 20
  Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’
  3:44
• 21
  Am I Blue
  3:36
• 22
  Come Rain or Come Shine
  3:39
• CD 2
• 1
  Alabamy Bound
  1:54
• 2
  Georgia on My Mind
  3:35
• 3
  Basin Street Blues
  2:46
• 4
  Mississippi Mud
  3:24
• 5
  Moonlight in Vermont
  3:02
  3.0 ★
• 6
  New York’s My Home
  3:05
• 7
  California, Here I Come
  2:10
• 8
  Moon Over Miami
  3:20
• 9
  Deep in the Heart of Texas
  2:28
• 10
  Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
  2:02
• 11
  Blue Hawaii
  2:58
• 12
  Chattanooga Choo‐Choo
  3:06
• 13
  The Ray
  3:59
• 14
  I Surrender Dear
  5:06
• 15
  Hornful Soul
  5:30
• 16
  Ain’t Misbehavin’
  5:41
• 17
  Joy Ride
  4:39
• 18
  Sweet Sixteen Bars
  4:08
  1.0 ★
• 19
  Doodlin’
  5:53
• 20
  There’s No You
  4:47
• 21
  Undecided
  3:39

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Release credits

• Al Grey
  trombone [2]
• Benny Powell
  trombone [2]
• Billy Mitchell
  tenor saxophone [2, 14]
• Bob Brookmeyer
  valve trombone [18]
• Budd Johnson
  tenor saxophone [6]
• Charlie Fowlkes
  baritone saxophone [2]
• Clark Terry
  trumpet [2, 14]
• Creed Taylor
  producer [2, 6]
• David “Fathead” Newman
  alto saxophone [14, 16, 19], tenor saxophone [2.14, 2.16, 2.19, 1.14]
• Earle Brown
  recording [14, 19]
• Earle Warren
  alto saxophone [6]
• Eddie Jones
  double bass [2]
• Emmott Dennis
  baritone saxophone [14, 16, 19]
• Ernie Royal
  trumpet [14]
• Frank Foster
  tenor saxophone [2]
• Frank Wess
  alto saxophone [2], flute [14], saxophone [14]
• Freddie Green
  guitar [2]
• George Dorsey
  alto saxophone [6]
• George Matthews
  trombone [6]
• Haywood Henry
  baritone saxophone [6]
• Henry Coker
  trombone [2]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer [2.14, 2.16, 2.19, 1.14, 1.18]
• Jimmy Cleveland
  trombone [6]
• Jimmy Nottingham
  trumpet [6]
• Joe Benjamin
  double bass [6]
• Joe Bridgewater
  trumpet [14, 16, 19]
• Joe Newman
  trumpet [2, 14]
• Joe Wilder
  trumpet [6]
• John Frosk
  trumpet [6]
• John Hunt
  trumpet [14, 16, 19]
• Keg Johnson
  trombone [6]
• Marcus Belgrave
  trumpet [14]
• Marshall Royal
  alto saxophone [2, 14]
• Melba Liston
  trombone [14]
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  producer [2.14, 2.16, 2.19, 1.14, 1.18]
• Paul Gonsalves
  tenor saxophone [14]
• Phillip Guilbeau
  trumpet [2]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [14]
• Quincy Jones
  arranger [1.6, 1.14, 2.19]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [2, 18]
• Ray Charles
  celesta [14], organ [2, 6], piano [2.14, 2.16, 2.19, 1.14, 1.18], vocal [2, 6, 14, 18]
• Roosevelt Sheffield
  double bass [14, 16, 19]
• Roy Haynes
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Sam Herman
  guitar [6]
• Seldon Powell
  tenor saxophone [6]
• Snookie Young
  trumpet [14]
• Snooky Young
  trumpet [2]
• Sonny Payne
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Thad Jones
  trumpet [2]
• Tom Dowd
  recording [14, 19]
• Urbie Green
  trombone [2, 6]
• Wendell Marshall
  bass [18]
• William Peeples
  drums (drum set) [14, 16, 19]
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Issues

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  Genius + Soul = Jazz : Complete 1956 -1960 Sessions

  2x CD (2 CD compilation)
  28 February 2011