Pre-War Classic Sides

Compilation by Sidney Bechet

Released 2007

Tracklist

  • CD 1: Classic Sides 1931-1937
  • 1
    Got the Bench, Got the Park
    Noble Sissle and His Orchestra
    3:15
  • 2
    In a Café on the Road to Calais
    Noble Sissle and His Orchestra
    2:51
  • 3
    Loveless Love
    Noble Sissle and His Orchestra
    3:20
  • 4
    Basement Blues
    Noble Sissle and His Orchestra
    3:20
  • 5
    Wha'd Ya Do to Me?
    Noble Sissle and His Orchestra
    3:04
  • 6
    Roll on, Mississippi, Roll On
    Noble Sissle & His International Orchestra
    3:06
  • 7
    Sweetie Dear
    New Orleans Feetwarmers
    2:53
  • 8
    I Want You Tonight
    New Orleans Feetwarmers
    3:09
  • 9
    I've Found a New Baby
    New Orleans Feetwarmers
    3:13
  • 10
    Lay Your Racket
    New Orleans Feetwarmers
    3:17
  • 11
    Maple Leaf Rag
    New Orleans Feetwarmers
    2:58
  • 12
    Shag
    New Orleans Feetwarmers
    3:08
  • 13
    Under the Creole Moon
    Noble Sissle & His International Orchestra
    3:22
  • 14
    The Old Ark Is Moverin'
    Noble Sissle & His International Orchestra
    3:05
  • 15
    Loveless Love
    Noble Sissle & His International Orchestra
    3:00
  • 16
    Polka Dot Rag
    Noble Sissle & His International Orchestra
    2:54
  • 17
    That's What Love Did to Me
    Noble Sissle and His Orchestra
    3:07
  • 18
    You Can't Live in Harlem
    Noble Sissle and His Orchestra
    2:26
  • 19
    I Wonder Who Made Rhythm
    Noble Sissle and His Orchestra
    3:14
  • 20
    'Tain't a Fit Night Out for Man or Beast
    Noble Sissle and His Orchestra
    2:35
  • 21
    I Take to You
    Noble Sissle and His Orchestra
    2:46
  • 22
    Rhythm of the Broadway Moon
    Noble Sissle and His Orchestra
    2:54
  • 23
    Bandanna Days
    Noble Sissle and His Orchestra
    2:55
  • 24
    I'm Just Wild About Harry
    Noble Sissle and His Orchestra
    2:53
  • 25
    Dear Old Southland
    Noble Sissle and His Orchestra
    3:03
  • 26
    Okey-Doke
    Noble Sissle’s Swingsters
    2:55
  • CD 2: Classic Sides 1937-1939
  • 1
    Characteristic Blues
    Noble Sissle’s Swingsters
    3:03
  • 2
    Viper Mad
    Noble Sissle’s Swingsters
    3:07
  • 3
    Blackstick
    Noble Sissle’s Swingsters
    2:50
  • 4
    When the Sun Sets Down South
    Noble Sissle’s Swingsters
    3:13
  • 5
    Sweet Patootie
    Noble Sissle’s Swingsters
    3:21
  • 6
    Freight Train Blues
    3:24
  • 7
    Trixie Blues
    3:18
  • 8
    My Daddy Rocks Me, Part 1
    3:00
  • 9
    My Daddy Rocks Me, Part 2
    2:59
  • 10
    He May Be Your Man but He Comes to Me Sometimes
    2:50
  • 11
    Jack, I'm Mellow
    2:49
  • 12
    Uncle Joe
    2:40
  • 13
    I Am a Woman
    2:51
  • 14
    Toot It, Brother Armstrong
    3:19
  • 15
    Blue Monday on Sugar Hill
    2:19
  • 16
    My Unusual Man
    2:50
  • 17
    What a Dream
    Sidney Bechet and His Orchestra
    2:56
  • 18
    Hold Tight
    Sidney Bechet and His Orchestra
    2:40
  • 19
    Jungle Drums
    Sidney Bechet and His Orchestra
    2:31
  • 20
    Chant in the Night
    Sidney Bechet and His Orchestra
    2:27
  • 21
    Ja Da
    Tommy Ladnier and His Orchestra
    2:57
  • 22
    Really the Blues
    Tommy Ladnier and His Orchestra
    3:40
  • 23
    When You and I Were Young, Maggie
    Tommy Ladnier and His Orchestra
    2:46
  • 24
    Weary Blues
    Tommy Ladnier and His Orchestra
    3:02
  • 25
    Summertime
    Sidney Bechet Quintet
    4:13
  • CD 3: Classic Sides 1939-1940
  • 1
    Blues for Tommy
    Port of Harlem Seven
    4:28
  • 2
    Pounding Heart Blues
    Port of Harlem Seven
    4:03
  • 3
    Magic Islands
    Haitian Orchestra
    2:42
  • 4
    Mayotte
    Haitian Orchestra
    2:42
  • 5
    Rosa Rhumba
    Haitian Orchestra
    2:32
  • 6
    Sous Les Palmiers
    Haitian Orchestra
    2:40
  • 7
    Coloney Bogey
    Haitian Orchestra
    2:40
  • 8
    Diane
    Haitian Orchestra
    3:05
  • 9
    Nana
    Haitian Orchestra
    2:40
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  • 10
    De Nous Meme
    Haitian Orchestra
    2:32
  • 11
    Titte Chatte
    Haitian Orchestra
    2:28
  • 12
    La Belle Germaine
    Haitian Orchestra
    2:50
  • 13
    Ti Ralph
    Haitian Orchestra
    2:20
  • 14
    Meringue D'Amour
    Haitian Orchestra
    2:57
  • 15
    Danses De Chez Nous
    Haitian Orchestra
    2:49
  • 16
    Oh, Didn't He Ramble?
    Jelly Roll Morton’s New Orleans Jazzmen
    3:14
  • 17
    High Society
    Jelly Roll Morton’s New Orleans Jazzmen
    2:50
  • 18
    I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say
    Jelly Roll Morton’s New Orleans Jazzmen
    3:15
  • 19
    Winin' Boy Blues
    Jelly Roll Morton’s New Orleans Jazzmen
    3:11
  • 20
    Indian Summer
    Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers
    3:08
  • 21
    One O'Clock Jump
    Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers
    2:30
  • 22
    Preachin' Blues
    Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers
    3:08
  • 23
    Sidney's Blues
    Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers
    2:55
  • 24
    Careless Love
    Josh White Trio
    3:46
  • 25
    Milk Cow Blues
    Josh White Trio
    4:06
  • CD 4: Classic Sides 1940
  • 1
    Lonesome Blues
    Sidney Bechet’s Blue Note Quartet
    4:10
  • 2
    Dear Old Southland
    Sidney Bechet’s Blue Note Quartet
    4:06
  • 3
    Bechet's Steady Rider
    Sidney Bechet’s Blue Note Quartet
    2:58
  • 4
    Saturday Night Blues
    Sidney Bechet’s Blue Note Quartet
    3:02
  • 5
    Four or Five Times
    Bechet-Spanier Big Four
    4:06
  • 6
    Sweet Lorraine
    Bechet-Spanier Big Four
    4:25
  • 7
    Lazy River
    Bechet-Spanier Big Four
    4:16
  • 8
    China Boy
    Bechet-Spanier Big Four
    3:55
  • 9
    If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
    Bechet-Spanier Big Four
    4:06
  • 10
    That's a Plenty
    Bechet-Spanier Big Four
    4:13
  • 11
    Squeeze Me
    Bechet-Spanier Big Four
    3:56
  • 12
    Sweet Sue
    Bechet-Spanier Big Four
    4:09
  • 13
    Perdido Street Blues
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:06
  • 14
    2.19 Blues
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    2:53
  • 15
    Down in Honky Tonk Town
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:06
  • 16
    Coal Cart Blues
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    2:58
  • 17
    Shake It and Break It
    Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers
    2:56
  • 18
    Old Man Blues
    Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers
    2:50
  • 19
    Wild Man Blues
    Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers
    3:21
  • 20
    Nobody Knows the Way I Feel 'Dis Mornin'
    Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers
    3:30
  • 21
    Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
    Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers
    3:16

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