The Beginning Years

Original Release Date:  1991

Track Listing

• 1. Vout Rhythm
• 2. Stormy Mood
• 3. Baggin' the Boogie
• 4. Bee Boogie Boo
• 5. Irresistible You
• 6. Phace
• 7. Don't Drive This Jive Away
• 8. The Hour of Parting
• 9. Abernathy's Boogie
• 10. Cherokee
• 11. Slowin' Down the Blues
• 12. I'm Gonna See My Baby
• 13. Frantic Blues
• 14. Snowbound
• 15. Flight of the Vout Bug
• 16. It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream
• 17. For You
• 18. Things Ain't What They Used to Be
• 19. Jeep's Blues
• 20. Day Dream
• 21. Take the "A" Train
• 22. Hickory Dickory Dock
• 23. Blue Rhythm Be-Bop

Credits

• Bill Doggett: Piano
• Mercer Ellington: Composer
• Freddie Green: Guitar, Composer
• Johnny Hodges: Composer
• Barney Kessel: Guitar
• Charles Mingus: Bass
• Oscar Pettiford: Bass, Composer, Performer
• Jimmy Rowles: Piano
• Marshall Royal: Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
• Lucky Thompson: Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor)
• Gerald Wilson: Trumpet
• Charlie Shavers: Trumpet
• David Allyn: Vocals, Performer
• Irving Ashby: Guitar
• Harry Babasin: Bass
• Ike Carpenter: Piano
• Stan Levey: Drums
• Hal McKusick: Sax (Alto)
• Irving Mills: Composer
• Ernie Andrews: Vocals, Performer
• Bob Graf: Source Material
• Don Lamond: Drums
• Tony Rizzi: Guitar
• Van Alexander: Arranger, Composer, Conductor
• Bob Stone: Bass
• Gene Phillips: Guitar
• Si Zentner: Trombone
• Shorty Rogers: Trumpet
• Mills Blue Rhythm Band: Performer
• Wilbert Barranco: Piano
• Frank Beach: Trumpet
• Eddie Beal: Piano
• John Best: Trumpet
• Red Callender: Bass
• Conrad Gozzo: Trumpet
• Gene DePaul: Composer
• Duke Ellington: Composer
• Karl George: Trumpet
• Jewell L. Grant: Sax (Alto)
• Al Hendrickson: Guitar
• J. Johnson: Trombone
• Al Killian: Trumpet
• John Kitzmiller: Bass
• John Latouche: Composer
• Ralph Lee: Sax (Tenor)
• Bob Mosley: Piano, Composer
• Al Norris: Guitar
• Charlie Eldridge "Chuck" Norris: Guitar
• Richard Norris: Sax (Alto)
• Bob Porter: Source Material
• Roy Porter: Drums
• Don Raye: Composer
• Rudy Rutherford: Clarinet
• Alvin Stoller: Drums
• Butch Stone: Sax (Baritone)
• Billy Strayhorn: Composer
• Jack Towers: ?, Transfers, Restoration
• Dave Wells: Trombone
• Shadow Wilson: Drums
• Charlie Drayton: Bass
• Eric Bogart: Artwork, Design, Photography, Cover Design, Source Material, Cover Art
• George Weidler: Sax (Alto)
• Lee Young: Drums
• Corky Corcoran: Sax (Tenor)
• Chuck Peterson: Trumpet
• Little Joe Cook: Sax (Baritone)
• Basin Street Boys: Performer
• Arnold Fishkind: Bass
• Tommy Pederson: Trombone
• Eddie Rosa: Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
• Rodney Richardson: Bass
• Frank Davenport: Celeste
• Charles Drayton: Bass
• Tony Getz: Guitar
• Charles Maxon: Trombone
• Clint Meagley: Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
• Morton Savada: Source Material
• G. Styles: Piano
• Ted Persons: Composer
• Marion Abernathy: Piano, Composer, Vocals
• Art Zimmerman: Source Material
• Rueben Sanders: Vocals
• Artie Waters: Vocals
• Ormand Wilson: Vocals
• Rod Baum: Source Material
• Rob Bauer: Executive Producer
• Doug Norwood: Producer, Liner Notes, Source Material
• Lyle Griffin And His Orchestra : Trombone, Performer
• Léon Beck: Sax (Baritone)
• John McClanian Best Jr.: Trumpet
• Estelle Edson: Composer, Vocals
• Gordon Reeder: Sax (Baritone), Sax (Tenor)
• Sidney Harris: Trombone
• Lyle Griffin: Trombone
• Edward Hall: Drums
• Gene Price: Vocals