The Classic Sessions: 1928 to 1949

Original Release Date:  June 12, 2001

Track Listing

• 1. Sugar
• 2. China Boy
• 3. Nobody's Sweetheart
• 4. Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)
• 5. Friars Point Shuffle
• 6. The Darktown Strutters' Ball
• 7. There'll Be Some Changes Made
• 8. I Found a New Baby
• 9. Jazz Me Blues
• 10. Oh! Baby
• 11. (Back Home Again In) Indiana
• 12. Makin' Friends
• 13. I'm Gonna Stomp Mr. Henry Lee
• 14. That's a Serious Thing
• 15. Minor Drag
• 16. (Back Home Again In) Indiana
• 17. Tailspin Blues
• 18. I Need Someone Like You
• 19. Hello Lola
• 20. One Hour
• 21. Girls Like You Were Meant for Boys Like Me
• 22. Georgia
• 23. I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
• 24. The Darktown Strutters' Ball
• 25. You Rascal, You
• 26. Bugle Call Rag
• 27. Oh Peter! (You're So Nice)
• 28. Yes, Suh!
• 29. Who Stole the Lock
• 30. A Shine on Your Shoes
• 31. Somebody Stole Gabriel's Horn
• 32. The Eel
• 33. Tennessee Twilight
• 34. Madame Dynamite
• 35. Home Cooking
• 36. The Eel
• 37. Home Cooking
• 38. Murder in the Moonlight
• 39. Let's Swing It
• 40. Double Trouble
• 41. That's What You Think
• 42. Every Now and Then
• 43. What Is There to Say?
• 44. Keep Smiling at Trouble
• 45. I Can't Get Started
• 46. Sweet Thing
• 47. Easy to Love
• 48. Old Fashioned Swing
• 49. Wolverine Blues
• 50. Jazz Me Blues
• 51. Embraceable You
• 52. Tappin' the Commodore Till
• 53. 'Life' Spears a Jitterbug
• 54. What's the Use?
• 55. I Found a New Baby
• 56. Easy to Get
• 57. China Boy
• 58. As Long as I Live
• 59. The Sail Fish
• 60. Sunday
• 61. Satanic Blues
• 62. Oh! Baby
• 63. I Need Some Pettin'
• 64. Susie
• 65. Big Boy
• 66. Let There Be Love
• 67. Sensation
• 68. Fidgety Feet
• 69. Tijuana
• 70. Copenhagen
• 71. Prince of Wails
• 72. A Good Man Is Hard to Find
• 73. Don't Leave Me Daddy
• 74. Georgia Cake Walk
• 75. Liberty Inn Drag
• 76. (Back Home Again In) Indiana
• 77. Get Happy
• 78. Oh Katherina
• 79. Uncle Sam Blues
• 80. How Come You Do Me?
• 81. Clarinet Marmalade
• 82. Joes' Blues
• 83. Village Blues
• 84. Tiger Rag
• 85. Peg O' My Heart
• 86. Cherry
• 87. Ballin' the Jack
• 88. Ja-Da
• 89. When Your Lover Has Gone
• 90. Wherever There's Love (There's You and Me)
• 91. Improvisation for the March of Time
• 92. Just You, Just Me
• 93. Atlanta Blues
• 94. Keeps on A-Rainin'
• 95. We Called It Music

Credits

• George Gershwin: Composer
• Eddie Condon: Banjo, Guitar, Composer
• Sidney DeParis: Trumpet
• Bud Freeman: Sax (Tenor)
• Bobby Hackett: Cornet
• Al Jolson: Composer
• Max Kaminsky: Trumpet
• Gene Krupa: Drums
• Jelly Roll Morton: Composer
• Albert Nicholas: Sax (Alto)
• Pee Wee Russell: Clarinet
• Muggsy Spanier: Cornet
• Jack Teagarden: Trombone, Composer, Vocals
• Claude Thornhill: Piano
• Fats Waller: Piano
• Danny Alvin: Drums
• Billy Butterfield: Trumpet
• Cozy Cole: Drums
• Eddie Edwards: Composer
• Bob Haggart: Bass
• Clancy Hayes: Composer
• Horace Henderson: Piano
• Nick LaRocca: Composer
• Joe Marsala: Clarinet
• Jimmy McPartland: Cornet
• Irving Mills: Composer
• Miff Mole: Trombone
• Benny Morton: Trombone
• Tony Parenti: Clarinet
• Zutty Singleton: Drums
• Joe Sullivan: Piano, Composer
• Frank Teschemacher: Clarinet
• George Wettling: Drums
• Frank Froeba: Piano
• Jimmy McHugh: Composer
• Vernon Duke: Composer
• Ned Miller: Composer
• Wild Bill Davison: Cornet
• Andy Razaf: Composer
• Red McKenzie: Composer
• Jack Pettis: Composer
• Milton Ager: Composer
• Louis Armstrong: Trumpet
• Larry Binyon: Sax (Tenor)
• Jack Bland: Guitar
• Dave Bowman: Piano
• Shelton Brooks: Composer
• George Brunies: Trombone
• Ernie Caceres: Sax (Baritone)
• Happy Caldwell: Sax (Tenor)
• Bob Casey: Bass
• Big Sid Catlett: Drums
• Larry Conley: Composer
• Buddy DeSylva: Composer
• Howard Dietz: Composer
• Tommy Dorsey: Clarinet
• Pops Foster: Bass
• Milt Gabler: Composer
• Ira Gershwin: Composer
• Jesse Greer: Composer
• E.Y. "Yip" Harburg: Composer
• Arville Harris: Clarinet, Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor)
• Clyde Hart: Piano
• Charlie Irvis: Trombone
• Gus Kahn: Composer
• Raymond Klages: Composer
• Benny Krueger: Composer
• Jack Lesberg: Bass
• Gordon Means: Composer
• Wilson Myers: Bass
• Mezz Mezzrow: Clarinet, Composer, Sax (Soprano)
• Al Morgan: Bass
• Clyde Newcombe: Drums
• Floyd O'Brien: Trombone
• Fred Ohms: Trombone
• Hot Lips Page: Trumpet, Composer, Vocals
• Cole Porter: Composer
• Henry W. Ragas: Composer
• Tony Sbarbaro: Composer
• Elmer Schoebel: Composer
• Gene Schroeder: Piano
• Arthur Schwartz: Composer
• Larry Shields: Composer
• Jess Stacy: Piano
• Jule Styne: Composer
• Dave Tough: Drums
• Ned Washington: Composer
• Hank Wayland: Bass
• Jack Yellen: Composer
• Sterling Bose: Trumpet
• Jack King: Composer
• Billy Meyers: Composer
• Adele Girard: Harp
• Joe Buskin: Piano
• Marty Marsala: Trumpet
• Art Miller: Bass
• Grachan Moncur II: Bass
• Eddie Farley: Trumpet
• Gene Rodemich: Composer
• Ted Fio Rito: Composer
• George York: Bass
• Ray Gilbert: Composer
• Bob Carlton: Composer
• John DeVries: Composer
• Otto Hardwick: Sax (Alto)
• Josh Billings: Drums
• Frank Orchard: Trombone
• Sally-Ann Worsfold: Liner Notes
• Bruce Yantis: Violin
• Doris Rhodes: Vocals
• Charlie Gaines: Trumpet
• Alex Hill: Piano, Arranger
• Maceo Pinkard: Composer
• Fred Fisher: Composer
• Clarence Gaskill: Composer
• Sidney Mitchell: Composer
• Benjamin Franklin Spikes: Composer
• James LaRocca: Composer
• George Rubens: Composer
• John Spikes: Composer
• Jesse Stafford: Composer
• Edna Alexander: Composer
• Alfred Bryan: Composer
• James Henry Burris: Composer
• Chester Conn: Composer
• Harry Da Costa: Composer
• Edgar Dowell: Composer
• Lewis Gensler: Composer
• Joe Verges: Composer
• Conrad Lanoue: Piano
• Arthur Berstein: Bass
• Herb Wiedoeft: Composer
• Diane Porter: Piano, Vocals
• Chris Smith: Composer
• W. Benton Overstreet: Composer
• Four Wanderers: Vocals
• James P. Johnson & his Orchestra: Piano
• Billy Rose: Composer
• Billy Higgins: Composer
• Joe Dixon: Clarinet