The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters

Original Release Date:  November 10, 2009

Track Listing

• 1. Strange Fruit
• 2. Yesterdays
• 3. Fine and Mellow
• 4. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
• 5. How Am I to Know
• 6. My Old Flame
• 7. I'll Get By
• 8. I Cover the Waterfront
• 9. I'll Be Seeing You
• 10. I'm Yours
• 11. Embraceable You
• 12. As Time Goes By
• 13. He's Funny That Way
• 14. Lover Come Back to Me
• 15. Billie's Blues
• 16. On the Sunny Side of the Street
• 17. Lover Man
• 18. No More
• 19. That Ole Devil Called Love
• 20. Don't Explain
• 21. You Better Go Now
• 22. What Is This Thing Called Love
• 23. Good Morning Heartache
• 24. No Good Man
• 25. Big Stuff
• 26. Baby, I Don't Cry Over You
• 27. I'll Look Around
• 28. The Blues Are Brewin'
• 29. Guilty
• 30. Deep Song
• 31. There Is No Greater Love
• 32. Easy Living
• 33. Solitude
• 34. Weep No More
• 35. Girls Were Made to Take Care of Boys
• 36. I Loves You Porgy
• 37. My Man [Mon Homme]
• 38. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do
• 39. Baby Get Lost
• 40. Keeps on A-Rainin'
• 41. Them There Eyes
• 42. Do Your Duty
• 43. Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)
• 44. You Can't Lose a Broken Heart
• 45. My Sweet Hunk O' Trash
• 46. Now or Never
• 47. You're My Thrill
• 48. Crazy He Calls Me
• 49. Please Tell Me Now
• 50. Somebody's on My Mind
• 51. God Bless the Child
• 52. This Is Heaven to Me

Credits

• George Gershwin: Composer
• Sigmund Romberg: Composer
• Buck Clayton: Trumpet
• Leonard Feather: Composer
• Tiny Grimes: Guitar
• Bobby Hackett: Trumpet
• Eddie Heywood: Piano, Arranger
• Budd Johnson: Sax (Tenor)
• Mundell Lowe: Guitar
• Specs Powell: Drums
• Tab Smith: Sax (Alto)
• Lester Young: Sax (Tenor)
• Eddie Barefield: Clarinet, Sax (Baritone)
• Billy Butterfield: Trumpet
• Cozy Cole: Drums
• Bob Haggart: Bass, Arranger, Director
• Horace Henderson: Piano
• Al Klink: Sax (Alto)
• Carl Kress: Guitar
• Bernie Leighton: Piano
• Irving Mills: Composer
• Johnny Mince: Sax (Alto)
• Sy Oliver: Arranger, Director
• Frankie Newton: Trumpet
• George Wettling: Drums
• Jimmy McHugh: Composer
• Harold Arlen: Composer
• Bob Bain: Guitar
• Dorothy Parker: Composer
• Stan Webb: Sax (Baritone)
• George Duvivier: Bass
• Jerome Kern: Composer
• Fred E. Ahlert: Composer
• Louis Armstrong: Vocals, Duet
• Everett Barksdale: Guitar
• Tom Barney: Bass
• Joe Benjamin: Bass
• Emmett Berry: Trumpet
• Denzil Best: Drums
• Billie Holiday: Composer, Vocals
• Larry Binyon: Sax (Tenor)
• Wallace Bishop: Drums
• Johnny Blowers: Guitar, Drums
• Sonny Burke: Producer
• Toots Camarata: Guitar, Arranger, Director
• Russ Case: Trumpet
• Big Sid Catlett: Drums
• Henderson Chambers: Trombone
• Doc Cheatham: Trumpet
• Kenny Clarke: Drums
• Shad Collins: Trumpet
• Sid Cooper: Sax (Alto)
• Jimmy Crawford: Drums
• Lem Davis: Sax (Alto)
• Eddie DeLange: Composer
• Vic Dickenson: Trombone
• Bob Dorsey: Sax (Tenor)
• George Dorsey: Sax (Alto)
• Eddie Dougherty: Drums
• Ervin Drake: Composer
• Duke Ellington: Composer
• Sammy Fain: Composer
• Nick Fatool: Drums
• Dorothy Fields: Composer
• Milt Gabler: Producer
• Ira Gershwin: Composer
• Porter Grainger: Composer
• Joe Guy: Trumpet
• Oscar Hammerstein II: Composer
• Barry Hansen: Sleeve Art
• E.Y. "Yip" Harburg: Composer
• Edward Heyman: Composer
• Isham Jones: Composer
• Irving Kahal: Composer
• Gus Kahn: Composer
• Leo Kruczek: Violin
• Billy Kyle: Piano
• Jack Lesberg: Bass
• Kelly Martin: Drums
• George Matthews: Trombone
• Andy McKaie: Compilation Producer
• Toots Mondello: Sax (Alto)
• Sol Moore: Sax (Baritone)
• Tony Mottola: Guitar
• Jimmy Nottingham: Trumpet
• Charles Peterson: Photography
• Cole Porter: Composer
• Rudy Powell: Sax (Alto)
• Bernie Privin: Trumpet
• Roger "Ram" Ramirez: Composer
• Alan Roberts: Composer
• Leo Robin: Composer
• Bob Russell: Composer
• Hymie Schertzer: Sax (Alto)
• Doug Schwartz: Mastering, Digital Assembly
• Jimmy Shirley: Guitar
• Carl Sigman: Composer
• John Simmons: Bass, Director
• Bill Stegmeyer: Clarinet, Strings, Director, Sax (Alto)
• Marty Symes: Composer
• Bobby Tucker: Piano
• Roy Turk: Composer
• Dick Vance: Trumpet
• Teddy Walters: Guitar
• Dicky Wells: Trombone
• Sonny White: Piano
• John Williams: Bass
• Spencer Williams: Composer
• Shadow Wilson: Drums
• Milt Yaner: Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
• Paul Ricci: Sax (Tenor)
• Kenneth Hollon: Sax (Tenor)
• Jack King: Composer
• Kurt Reher: Cello
• Sammy Benskin: Piano
• Tony Faso: Trumpet
• John Fulton: Clarinet, Flute, Sax (Tenor)
• Bernard Kaufman: Sax (Tenor)
• Charlie LaVere: Piano
• Maurice Perlmutter: Viola
• Jimmy Sherman: Composer
• Joe Springer: Piano
• George Stevenson: Trombone
• Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra: Strings, Arranger, Conductor, Director
• Andy Engel: Design
• Billy Taylor, Jr.: Bass
• Daniel Perry: Guitar
• Rostelle Reese: Trumpet
• Armand Camgros: Sax (Tenor)
• Jimmy McLin: Guitar
• Donna Ranieri: Photo Research
• Haig Stephens: Bass
• Stanley Payne: Sax (Tenor)
• Buster Harding: Director
• Ralph Blane: Composer
• Arthur Johnston: Composer
• Jack Cressey: Sax (Alto)
• Dick "Dent" Eckles: Flute, Sax (Tenor)
• Max Kortlander: Composer
• Pat Nizza: Sax (Tenor)
• George Serloff: Violin
• Don Peterson: Photo Courtesy
• Art Drellinger: Sax (Tenor)
• Sam Coslow: Composer
• Ted Koehler: Composer
• Tom Adair: Composer
• Richard A. Whiting: Composer
• Harry Akst: Composer
• Sidney Clare: Composer
• Neil Moret (Chas. N. Daniels): Composer
• Louis Alter: Composer
• Jacques Charles: Composer
• Dan Fisher: Composer
• Sammy Gallop: Composer
• Jay Gorney: Composer
• Irene Higginbotham: Composer
• Everett Robbins: Composer
• Doris Tauber: Composer
• William Tracey: Composer
• Maurice Yvain: Composer
• Frank Reardon: Composer
• Ernest Schweikert: Composer
• Arnold Clawson: Composer
• George Cory: Composer
• Douglass Cross: Composer
• Albert Williametz: Composer
• Ashley Kahn: Liner Notes
• Robert Graham: Composer
• Freddie Williams: Sax (Tenor)
• Ryan Null: Photo Coordination
• Michele Horie: Production Coordination, Art Direction
• David Friscina: Violin
• Morton Krouse: Composer
• Charles Jaffe: Violin
• Toussaint Pope: Composer
• Gordon Griffith: Trumpet
• Frank Siefiels: Violin
• Louis Butterman: Bass
• Armand Kaproff: Viola
• Gordon Jenkins Singers: Vocals (Background)