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BENNIE MOTEN / COUNT BASIE – BASIE BEGINNINGS 1929-1932
- Chicago, October 23, 1929
The Jones law blues, Small black, Everyday blues [Yo yo blues]
Ed Lewis, Booker Washington (cnt) Thamon Hayes (tb) Eddie Durham (v-tb,g,arr) Harlan Leonard (cl,sop,as) Jack Washington (cl,as,bar) Woody Walder (cl,ts) Count Basie (p,vcl) Ira “Buster” Moten (p,accor) Leroy “Buster” Berry (bj) Vernon Page (tu) Willie McWashington (d) Bennie Moten (dir) - Chicago, October 24, 1929
New Vine Street blues Agregado: Willie McWashington (d,vcl)
ELLA FITZGERALD / CHICK WEBB ORCH – ELLA FITZGERALD 1939
- New York, February 17, 1939
Tain’t what you do, One side of me (ef vcl), My heart belongs to daddy (ef vcl,wc arr)
Dick Vance, Bobby Stark, Taft Jordan (tp) Sandy Williams, Nat Story, George Matthews (tb) Garvin Bushell (cl,as) Hilton Jefferson (as) Teddy McRae (ts) Wayman Carver (ts,arr) Tommy Fulford (p) Bobby Johnson (g) Beverly Peer (b) Chick Webb (d) Ella Fitzgerald (vcl) - New York, March 2, 1939
Sugar pie (ef vcl), I’m up a tree (ef vcl)
John Trueheart (g) replaces Bobby Johnson, Ted McRae (ts,bar)
ARTIE SHAW AND HIS ORCHESTRA – THE INDISPENSABLE ARTIE SHAW, VOL. 5 [1944-1945]
- Hollywood, CA, November 23 & 24, 1944
Lady Day, Jumpin’ on the merry-go-round
Roy Eldridge, Ray Linn, Jimmy Pupa, George Schwartz (tp) Ray Conniff (tb,arr) Harry Rogers, Pat McNaughton, Skip Morr (tb) [ Skip Morr (tb) ] Artie Shaw (cl,arr) Les Clarke (as) [ Les Goldberg (as) ] Tom Mace (as) Jon Walton, Herbie Steward (ts) Chuck Gentry (bar) Dodo Marmarosa (p) Barney Kessel (g) Morris Rayman (b) Lou Fromm (d) Imogene Lynn (vcl) Jimmy Mundy, Buster Harding, Eddie Sauter, George Siravo, Bobby Sherwood (arr) - New York, January 9, 1945
S wonderful, Bedford Drive
Cambios: Paul Cohen, Tony Faso (tp) replaces Ray Linn, Jimmy Pupa
DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA – BRAGGIN’ IN BRASS – THE IMMORTAL 1938 YEAR
- New York, January 13, February 2, 1938
Pyramid, Steppin’ into swing society, Lost in meditation, The gal from Joe’s
Rex Stewart (cnt) Cootie Williams, Arthur Whetsel (tp) Joe Nanton, Lawrence Brown (tb) Barney Bigard (cl,ts) Johnny Hodges (as,sop) Otto Hardwick (as,cl) Harry Carney (bar,cl,b-cl) Duke Ellington (p) Fred Guy (g) Billy Taylor, Sr., Hayes Alvis (b) Sonny Greer (d,chimes) Ivie Anderson (vcl) - New York, March 3, 1938
I let a song go out of my heart
Cambios: Wallace Jones (tp) replaces Arthur Whetsel, Cootie Williams (tp-1) Herb Flemming (tb) replaces Juan Tizol
