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The Smithsonian collection of classic jazz
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- Creator
- selected and annotated by Martin Williams ; with a biographical index by Ira Gitler
- Included Title
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- Frankie and Johnny
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Williams, Martin, 1924-1992, writer of accompanying material
- Gitler, Ira, writer of accompanying material
- Joplin, Scott, 1868-1917, instrumentalist
- Morton, Jelly Roll, 1890-1941, instrumentalist
- Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937, singer
- Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959, performer
- Johnson, James P. (James Price), 1894-1955, performer
- Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971, performer
- Hines, Earl, 1903-1983, performer
- Trumbauer, Frank, performer
- Henderson, Fletcher, 1897-1952, performer
- Nichols, Red, performer
- Waller, Fats, 1904-1943, performer
- Lewis, Meade, 1905-1964, performer
- Hawkins, Coleman, performer
- Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959, singer
- Fitzgerald, Ella, singer
- Tatum, Art, 1909-1956, instrumentalist
- Lunceford, Jimmie, performer
- Krupa, Gene, 1909-1973, instrumentalist
- Carter, Benny, performer
- Eldridge, Roy, 1911-1989, performer
- Hampton, Lionel, performer
- Basie, Count, 1904-1984, performer
- Christian, Charlie, 1916-1942, performer
- Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974, performer
- Byas, Don, performer
- Stewart, Slam, performer
- Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955, instrumentalist
- Garner, Erroll, instrumentalist
- Davis, Miles, performer
- Norvo, Red, performer
- Getz, Stan, 1927-1991, performer
- Vaughan, Sarah, 1924-1990, singer
- Monk, Thelonious, performer
- Joplin, Scott, 1868-1917. Maple leaf rag
- King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
- Red Hot Peppers (Musical group)
- Red Onion Jazz Babies
- Blue Note Jazzmen (Musical group : Art Hodes)
- Hot Five
- Hot Seven
- Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra
- Five Pennies (Musical group)
- Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
- Benny Goodman Trio
- Coleman Hawkins Quartet
- Chocolate Dandies (Benny Carter)
- Hot Club de France. Quintette
- Kansas City Seven (Count Basie)
- Benny Goodman Sextet
- Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
- Dizzy Gillespie All Star Quintet
- Charlie Parker's Reboppers
- Jazz at the Philharmonic (Musical group)
- Charlie Parker Quintet
- Charlie Parker Sextet
- Charlie Parker All Stars
- Bud Powell Trio
- Bill Evans Trio
- Dexter Gordon Quartet
- Tadd Dameron Sextet
- Lennie Tristano Quintet
- Just Jazz (Gene Norman)
- Thelonious Monk Quartet
- Thelonious Monk Quintet
- Horace Silver Quintet
- Gil Evans Orchestra
- Charles Mingus Quintet
- Modern Jazz Quartet
- Sonny Rollins + 4
- Sonny Rollins Quartet
- Wes Montgomery Quartet
- Miles Davis Sextet
- Cecil Taylor Unit
- John Coltrane Quartet
- Ornette Coleman Quartet
- Ornette Coleman Double Quartet
- World Saxophone Quartet
- Publication
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- Revised
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Collection of Recordings, [1987]
- ℗1987
- Physical Details
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- 7 audio discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereophonic, monophonic ; 12 in
- OCLC
- ocm18195666
- Credits
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- Jazz ensembles, piano music, vocals, and blues, performed by various artists
- Smithsonian Collection of Recordings: R 033 (additional number: P7-19477 ; disc nos.: P19478--P19484).
- "Produced in association with CBS Special Products."
- All songs previously released.
- Program notes by Martin Williams (120 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.) laid in container.
- Includes bibliography and discography.
- Recorded between Oct. 18, 1921 and Nov. 6, 1981.
- disc 1: Maple leaf rag / Scott Joplin (Scott Joplin) -- Scott Joplin (Jelly Roll Morton) -- St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy ; Lost your head blues / Bessie Smith (Bessie Smith) -- Dippermouth blues / Joe Oliver (King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band) -- Black bottom stomp ; Dead man blues : (dialogue deleted) ; Grandpa's spells / Jelly Roll Morton (Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers) -- King Porter stomp / Jelly Roll Morton (Jelly Roll Morton) -- Cake walking babies from home / Clarence Williams, Chris Smith, Henry Troy (Red Onion Jazz Babies) -- Blue horizon / Sidney Bechet (Sidney Bechet and his Blue Note Jazz Men) -- Carolina shout / James P. Johnson (James P. Johnson) -- Big butter and egg man from the west : (abridged) / Louis Armstrong, Percy Venable (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five) -- Potato head blues / Louis Armstrong (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven) -- Struttin' with some barbecue ; Hotter than that / Lillian Hardin Armstrong (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five) -- West End blues / Joe Oliver, Clarence Williams (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five) --
- drsc 2: Weather bird / Joe Oliver (Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines) -- Sweethearts on parade / Carmen Lombardo (music) ; Charles Newman (words) ; I gotta right to sing the blues : (dialogue deleted) / Harold Arlen (music) ; Ted Kœhler (words) (Louis Armstrong and his orchestra) -- Singin' the blues / Jimmy McHugh (music) ; Dorothy Fields (words) ; Riverboat shuffle / Hoagy Carmichael (music) ; Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish (words) (Frankie Trumbauer and his orchestra) -- Four or five times / Byron Gay (music) ; Marco H. Hellman (words) (Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra) -- The stampede ; Wrappin' it up / Fletcher Henderson (Fletcher Henderson and his orchestra) -- Dinah / Henry Akst (music) ; Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young (words) (Red Nichols and his Five Pennies) -- Moten swing / Bennie Moten ; Buster Moten (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra) -- I ain't got nobody / Spencer Williams (music) ; Roger Graham (words) (Fats Waller) -- Honky tonk train blues / Meade Lewis (Meade "Lux" Lewis) -- Body and soul / Johnny Green (music) ; Robert Sauer, Ed Heyman, Frank Eyton (words) (Benny Goodman Trio) -- Johnny Green (music) ; Robert Sauer, Ed Heyman, Frank Eyton (words) (Coleman Hawkins and his orchestra) -- The man I love / George Gershwin (music) ; Ira Gershwin (words) (Coleman Hawkins Quartet) -- He's funny that way / Robert Whiting, Neil Moret ; These foolish things / Jack Strachey, Harry Link (music) ; Holt Marvel (words) (Billie Holiday and her orchestra) --
- dirc 3: You'd be so nice to come home to / Cole Porter (Ella Fitzgerald) -- Willow weep for me / Ann Ronell ; Too marvelous for words / Richard Whiting (music) ; Johnny Mercer (words) (Art Tatum) -- Organ grinder's swing / Will Hudson (music) ; Mitchell Parish, Irving Mills (words) (Jimmie Lunceford and his orchestra) -- Rockin' chair / Hoagy Carmichael (Gene Krupa and his orchestra) -- I can't believe that you're in love with me : (excerpt) / Jimmy McHugh (music) ; Clarence Gaskill (words) (Chocolate Dandies, feat. Roy Eldridge, Benny Carter) -- When lights are low / Benny Carter (music) ; Spencer Williams (words) (Lionel Hampton and his orchestra) -- Dinah / Henry Akst (music) ; Sam. M. Lewis, Joe Young (words) (Quintette of the Hot Club of France) -- Doggin' around / Herschel Evans, Edgar W. Battle ; arr. Herschel Evans, Edgar W. Battle ; Taxi war dance / Count Basie, Lester Young ; arr. Buck Clayton (Count Basie and his orchestra) -- Lester leaps in / Lester Young (Count Basie's Kansas City Seven) -- I found a new baby / Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams ; Breakfast feud : (composite) / Benny Goodman (Benny Goodman Sextet, feat. Charlie Christian) -- East St. Louistoodle-oo / Bubber Miley, Duke Ellington ; arr. Duke Ellington (Duke Ellington and his orchestra) -- The new East St. Louis toodle-oo / Bubber Miley, Duke Ellington ; arr. Duke Ellington ; Diminuendo in blue ; Crescendo in blue ; Ko-ko / Duke Ellington ; arr. Duke Ellington (Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra) --
- disc 4: Concerto for Cootie / Duke Ellington ; arr. Duke Ellington ; Cotton tail / Duke Ellington ; In a mellotone / Blue serge / Mercer Ellington (Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra) -- I got rhythm / George Gershwin (music) ; Ira Gershwin (words) (Don Byas, Slam Slam Stewart) -- I can't get started / Vernon Duke (music) ; Ira Gershwin (words) (Dizzy Gillespie Sextet) -- Shaw 'nuf / Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker (Dizzy Gillespie All Star Quintette) -- KoKo / Charlie Parker (Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers) -- Lady be good / George Gershwin (music) ; Ira Gershwin (words) (Charlie Parker, with Jazz at the Philharmonic) -- Embraceable you : (excerpt) : [2 takes] / George Gershwin (music) ; Ira Gershwin (words) ; Klactoveedsedstene / Charlie Parker (Charlie Parker Quintet) -- Crazeology : (takes 1, 4) / Benny Harris (Charlie Parker Sextet) -- Parker's mood / Charlie Parker (Charlie Parker All Stars) -- Fantasy on Frankie and Johnny (Erroll Garner) -- Night in Tunisia / Dizzy Gillespie (Bud Powell Trio) --
- disc 5: Bikini / Dexter Gordon (Dexter Gordon Quartet) -- Lady Bird / Tadd Dameron (Tadd Dameron Sextet) -- Boplicity / Cleo Henry [i.e., Miles Davis] (Miles Davis and his orchestra) -- Subconscious Lee / Lee Konitz (Lennie Tristano Quintet) -- Body and soul : (excerpt) / Johnny Green (music) ; Robert Sauer, Ed Heyman, Frank Eyton (words) (Gene Norman's Just Jazz, feat. Red Norvo, Stan Getz) -- All alone / Irving Berlin ; arr. Thad Jones ; My funny valentine / Richard Rodgers (music) ; Lorenz Hart (words) (Sarah Vaughan) -- Misterioso ; Evidence / Thelonious Monk ; arr. Thelonious Monk (Thelonious Monk Quartet) -- Criss-cross / Thelonious Monk ; arr. Thelonious Monk (Thelonious Monk Quintet) -- Bag's groove : (solo from Miles Davis' All Stars recording) / Milt Jackson ; I should care / Paul Weston, Axel Stordahl (music) ; Sammy Cahn (words) (Thelonious Monk) -- Moon rays / Horace Silver (Horace Silver Quintet) --
- disc 6: Summertime / George Gershwin (music) ; DuBose Heywood (words) (Miles Davis, Gil Evans' Orchestra) -- Haitian fight song / Charles Mingus (Charles Mingus Quintet) -- Django / John Lewis (Modern Jazz Quartet) -- Pent-up house : (abridged) / Sonny Rollins (Sonny Rollins Plus Four) -- Blue 7 / Sonny Rollins (Sonny Rollins Quartet) -- West Coast blues : Wes Montgomery (Wes Montgomery Quartet) -- So what / Miles Davis (Miles Davis Sextet) --
- disc 7: Blue in green / Bill Evans, Miles Davis ; arr. Bill Evans (Bill Evans Trio) -- Enter evening / Cecil Taylor ; arr. Cecil Taylor (Cecil Taylor Unit) -- Alabama / John Coltrane ; arr. John Coltrane (John Coltrane Quartet) -- Lonely woman ; Congeniality / Ornette Coleman ; arr. Ornette Coleman (Ornette Coleman Quartet) -- Free jazz : (excerpt) / Ornette Coleman ; arr. Ornette Coleman (Ornette Coleman Double Quartet) -- Steppin' / Julius Hamphill (World Saxophone Quartet)