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The Smithsonian collection of classic jazz.
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- Creator
- selected and annotated by Martin Williams ; prepared in cooperation with Columbia Special Products
- Included Title
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- Frankie and Johnny
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Washington : Division of Performing Arts, Smithsonian Institution; educational distribution by W. W. Norton & Co., [1973]
- Physical Details
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- 6 audio discs : 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in
- OCLC
- ocm01157302
- In part stereophonic.
- Program notes by the compiler (46 p. illus.) laid in container.
- Jazz ensembles, piano music, and blues, performed by various artists.
- Recorded 1916-1966.
- disc 1. Maple leaf rag / Scott Joplin (Scott Joplin) -- Scott Joplin (Jelly Roll Morton) -- Hellhound on my trail / Robert Johnson (Robert Johnson) -- St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy (Bessie Smith) -- Lost your head blues / Bessie Smith (Bessie Smith) -- Dippermouth blues / Joe Oliver (King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band) -- Grandpa's spells ; Dead man blues ; Black bottom stomp / F.J. Morton (Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers) -- Cake walking babies / C. Williams ; B. Smith ; A. Troy (Red Onion Jazz Babies) -- Blue horizon / Sidney Bechet (Sidney Bechet and his Blue Note Jazzmen) -- Carolina shout / J.P. Johnson (James P. Johnson) -- Struttin' with some barbeque / Lillian Hardin Armstrong (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five) -- Potato head blues ; S.O.L. blues / Louis Armstrong (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven) -- Hotter than that / West End blues / Joe Oliver ; Clarence Williams (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five) --
- disc 2. Weather bird / Louis Armstrong (Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines) -- Sweethearts on parade / C. Lombardo ; C. Newman (Louis Armstron and his Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra) -- I gotta right to sing the blues / Harold Arlen ; Ted Koehler (Louis Armstrong and his orchestra) -- Singin' the blues / Dorothy Fields ; Jimmy McHugh (Frankie Trumbauer and his orchestra) -- Riverboat shuffle / Hoagy Carmichael ; Irving Mills ; Mitchell Parish (Frankie Trumbauer and his orchestra) -- The stampede ; Wrappin' it up / Fletcher Henderson (Fletcher Henderson and his orchestra) -- Moten swing / Buster and Benny Moten (Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra) -- I ain't got nobody / S. Williams ; R. Graham (Fats Waller) -- Honky tonk train / Meade Lewis (Meade "Lux" Lewis) -- Body and soul / R. Sour ; J. Green ; E. Heyman (Benny Goodman Trio) -- Body and soul (Coleman Hawkins and his orchestra) -- The man I love / Gershwin (Coleman Hawkins Quartet) -- He's funny that way / R. Whiting ; N. Moret (Billie Holiday and her orchestra) -- All of me / S. Simons ; G. Marks (Billie Holiday ; Eddie Heywood and his orchestra) -- You'd be so nice to come home to / Cole Porter (Ella Fitzgerald --
- disc 3. Willow weep for me / Ann Ronell (Art Tatum) -- Too marvelous for words / Richard Whiting ; Johnny Mercer (Art Tatum) -- Lunceford Special / Eddie Durham (Jimmy Lunceford and his orchestra) -- Rockin' chair / H. Carmichael (Gene Krupa and his orchestra) -- I can't believe that you're in love with me / J. McHugh ; C. Gaskill (Roy Eldridge and Benny Carter) -- When the lights are low / Benny Carter (Lionel Hampton) -- Doggin' around / H. Evans ; W. Battle (Count Basie and his orchestra) -- Taxi war dance / Lester Young ; Count Basie (Count Basie) -- Lester leaps in / Lester Young (Count Basie's Kansas City Seven) -- I found a new baby / Jack Palmer ; Spencer Williams (Benny Goodman Sextet) -- Breakfast feud : blues sequence / Benny Goodman (Charlie Christian with the Benny Goodman Sextet) -- East St. Louis toodle-oo ; New East St. Louis toodle-oo / Bubber Miley ; Duke Ellington (Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra) -- Creole rhapsody ; Harlem air shaft ; Concerto for Cootie / Duke Ellington (Duke Ellington and his orchestra) --
- disc 4. In a mellotone ; Ko-ko / Duke Ellington (Duke Ellington and his orchestra) -- Blue serge / Mercer Ellington (Duke Ellington and his orchestra) -- I got rhythm / Gershwin (Don Byas) -- I can't get started / V. Duke ; I. Gershwin (Dizzy Gillespie Sextet) -- Shaw 'nuff / D. Gillespie ; C. Parker (Dizzy Gillespie's All Star Quintet) -- Charlie Parker (Charlie Parker's Re-Bobbers) -- Embraceable you / Gershwin (Charlie Parker) -- Klacktoveedsedsteen / Charlie Parker (Charlie Parker) -- Little Benny / Benny Harris (Charlie Parker Sextet) -- Parker's mood / Charlie Parker (Charlie Parker's All Stars) -- Fantasy on "Frankie and Johnny" / Erroll Garner (Erroll Garner Trio) -- Somebody loves me / Macdonald ; Gershwin ; De Sylva (Bud Powell Trio) -- Dancing in the dark / A. Schwartz ; H. Dietz (Sarah Vaughan) -- Ain't no use / L. Kirkland ; S. Wyche (Sarah Vaughan) -- Crosscurrent / Lennie Tristano (Lennie Tristano) --
- disc 5. Boplicity / Cleo Henry (Miles Davis and his orchestra) -- Lady Bird / Tadd Dameron (Tadd Dameron's Sextet) -- Bikini / Dexter Gordon (Dexter Gordon Quartet) -- Misterioso / Thelonious Monk (Thelonious Monk Quartet) -- Criss-cross / Thelonious Monk (Thelonious Monk Quintet) -- Evidence / Thelonious Monk (Thelonious Monk) -- Smoke gets in your eyes / I should care / P. Weston ; A. Stardahl ; S. Cohn (Thelonious Monk) -- Bag's groove : blues improvisation / Milt Jackson (Thelonious Monk) -- Summertime / Gershwin (Miles Davis with Gil Evans' Orchestra) -- Blue 7 / Sonny Rollins (Sonny Rollins Quartet) -- Django / John Lewis (Modern Jazz Quartet) -- Hora decubitus / Charles Mingus (Charles Mingus and his orchestra) --
- disc 6. Pent-up house / Sonny Rollins (Sonny Rollins Plus Four) -- Enter evening / Cecil Taylor (Cecil Taylor) -- So what / Miles Davis (Miles Davis Sextet) -- Lonely woman ; Congeniality ; Free jazz / Ornette Coleman (Ornette Coleman) -- Alabama / John Coltrane (John Coltrane)