Kansas City Swing [Import]

1. Way Down Yonder In New Orleans

2. Countless Blues

3. Them There Eyes

4. I Want A Little Girl

5. Pagin' The Devil

6. I Got Rhythm

7. I'm Fer It Too

8. Hello Babe

9. Linger Awhile

10. Just You Just Me

11. I Never Knew

12. Afternoon Of A Basie-Ite

13. Sometimes I'm Happy

14. After Theatre Jump

15. Six Cats And A Prince

16. Lester Leaps Again

17. Destination K.C.

18. Three Little Words

19. Jo - Jo

20. Four O'clock Drag

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Kansas City Swing,Lester Young,Definitive Classics,Jazz,Mainstream Jazz,Pop,Swing

Average customer rating: not Prez's best History on CD, fun, joy what music is for Now and Then OK - now I've heard the extra material- what a difference I'm fascinated with these 5-star ratings here Quickly proves that L.Y. was one of the Greats...

The Kansas City Sessions Lester Young Manufacturer: Verve ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Verve | Verve Music Group | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: The Complete Aladdin Recordings Complete Savoy Recordings Pres and Teddy Lester Young with Oscar Peterson Trio The Complete Decca Recordings ASIN: B0000001NN Release Date: 1997-01-28

Tracks:

1. Way Down Yonder In New Orleans #2
2. Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
3. Countless Blues
4. Countless Blues #2
5. Them There Eyes #2
6. Them There Eyes
7. I Want A Little Girl
8. I Want A Little Girl #2
9. Pagin' The Devil
10. Pagin' The Devil #2
11. Three Little Words #2
12. Three Little Words
13. Jo Jo
14. I Got Rhythm #3
15. I Got Rhythm #2
16. I Got Rhythm
17. Four O'Clock Drag
18. Four O'Clock Drag #3
19. Laughing At Life
20. Good Mornin' Blues
21. I Know That You Know
22. Love Me Or Leave Me

Amazon.com

Though known as the "Kansas City sessions," Milt Gabler taped these proceedings in New York City for his Commodore label. The musicians, however, represented the soul of the Kansas City influx. The first 10 tracks--five tunes with one alternate each--come from September 1938 and feature a group drawn from the Count Basie Orchestra's ranks. It's the great Basie rhythm section of bassist Walter Page, drummer Jo Jones, and rhythm guitarist Freddie Green (who also sings on "Them There Eyes"), with a frontline of Lester Young, trumpeter Buck Clayton, and Eddie Durham, who's heard far more prominently on electric guitar than trombone. A master of half-valve smears, Clayton sounds superb, whether elegantly muted or expressively open, but it's Young who will rivet a listener's attention, both on tenor sax or playing clarinet with a strikingly original sound and conception.

Young's clarinet virtually defines the sonority of later "cool" alto saxophonists like Lee Konitz and Paul Desmond, and the blend with the transparent textures of the two guitars is particularly advanced. The second session is by a very different Kansas City Six from 1944, with Young and Jones the only returning members. It's a far more conventional setting, with trumpeter Bill Coleman and trombonist Dicky Wells competing in brashness and pianist Joe Bushkin in place of the guitars. The sometimes aggressive cast to the band only highlights Young's superbly relaxed phrasing. His opening solos on the three takes of "I Got Rhythm" are textbook example of relaxed swing, and their inspiration to Wells is apparent in his solos that follow. The CD concludes with four tracks by the Kansas City Five from March 1938, the earliest session here. It's the first Kansas City Six without Young present, still well worth hearing for the superb play of Clayton, Durham, and the rhythm section. --Stuart Broomer

Customer Reviews:

not Prez's best.......2006-02-25

historically important, but not necessarily my favorite; Lester Young recorded much greater music, both with Basie and on his own, later..Buck Clayton is in good form; Jo Jones sounds great, it's good to be reminded how great Walter Page could be; the two takes of
"Pagin' the Devil" are extraordinary. And Freddie Green, of all people, sings, and very nicely. but Eddie Durham's trombone playing is annoying, frankly; though, again, it's extraordinary to hear Durham's electric guitar work, before Charlie Christian got rolling.

History on CD, fun, joy what music is for Now and Then.......2004-02-13

This is a historic session, I am talking about the 1938 set. One thing here is that this about the first, if not the first Jazz recording, and among the first ever recordings to feature an electric 6 string standard guitar, or an electric guitar as we say in English (all that other stuff is just for certain record keepers i dialog with who claim wanna county amplified Hawaiian guitars). This is loose and mellow, a jam session of the finest kind, made for a record shop label that back in that day was only going to be discovered by the hippest of the hip, musicians and their true lovers.

Lester is superb and more understated and relaxed than on Basie tracks from the same period. The clarinet playing is a gem. Lester complained that Basie tried to minimize clarinet playing by himself and Herschel Evans, the band's soloists on the sax, although they trade clarinet solos on some of the Decca Sides, Jumpin' at the Woodside and Texas Shuffle, I think.
Lester played clarinet wonderfully all the way to his clarinet blues on his last Verve session when he was too weak to lift the tenor.

Getting back to this CD, what is also outstanding here is the rhythm. We have the Basie's All-American rhythm session without Basie for contractual reasons--Freddie Green, Joe Jones, and the great Walter Page. They are augmented here and there by Eddie Durham's electric guitar that comes back into rhythm mode when he is not soloing. (Eddie had been playing solos on a National steel guitar in the Moten, Lunceford, and Basie bands until he went electric. He passed the idea of playing electric lead guitar on to a young former drummer he had known in Oklahoma and convinced to switch to guitar. The man's name was Charlie Christian!)

Everything is the quintessence of swing, where how the band rides the rhythm and dances with it and the rhythm dances back with them is more important than the excellent solos and the not bad mellow singing Mr. Clayton contributes.

The 1944 sides are part of the great work that Lester recorded in small group settings in the mid 1940s including some with Basie sitting in on piano that are attributed and a few where it is obvious Basie is playing piano even if the liner notes claim otherwise. They swing and jumb and move, but there is nothing else that really relates them to these sessions other than Lester and the name.

If you like this music, check out the newest multi CD version of the Spirtuals to Swing Concerts. It seems that a number of the cuts that John Hammond put on the original LP and Tape releases of the "concerts" were really from similar small group sessions of Basieites he recorded in 1938 and faked onto the concert records together with introductions by Hammond with Hammond's voice sped up to sound higher and younger. The new edition removes them from the concerts, but includes the whole batch, about 6 or 7 songs, as a separate heading that swings just like these sides.

Thank goodness for the record shop owner who wanted to put these sides out.

OK - now I've heard the extra material- what a difference.......2003-09-03

In my last review on this LP (not CD), I mentioned that there were extra tracks on the CD that Commodore left out of the LP. What a crime. All of them are minus Eddie Durham and with the Kansas City Six - 8 more tracks in all, and all top shelf. I still don't go for the Eddie Durham stuff, as good as the surrounding band is, but these 8 tracks could comprise a CD all on their own. I got hoodwinked by Commodore in 1979 with the LP. Shame on them! How dare they leave out the best stuff. The LP, by the way, was called "Lester Young". An extra star for the CD.

I'm fascinated with these 5-star ratings here.......2003-08-30

Hey - there are great moments here - such as Lester playing clarinet, and playing the hell out of it: BUT BUYER BEWARE...the Kansas City Five sessions Do NOT even have Prez on them! That's right. Commodore Records released this as an LP in 1979, and while many tracks are in fact really well recorded, and Buck and Lester, and Freddie play great, many of the tunes are marred by Eddie Durham's totally out-of-place electric guitar "work". That's why there are so many alternate takes - and he never does get them right. How frustrating! "Good Mornin' Blues", "Laughing at Life", "I Know That You Know", and "Love Me or leave Me" are all minus Lester - now that is simply unacceptable when the CD is titled Lester Young. They do include some other tracks not on the original LP...they better, to make up for the lack of Prez on the others. There are some great moments here, but you really need to preview them. Maybe you'll like Eddie durham's quirky playing, but it ruins an otherwise wonderful line-up for me.

Quickly proves that L.Y. was one of the Greats..........2003-06-30

A friend sent this to me as a gift recently. I own a lot of jazz, but no Lester Young CD's until this one. My gosh, this is fun, and the sound quality is surprisingly good for 1938 and '44 sessions. Lester uses the clarinet in about half the tunes, and the sax in the rest, and he is foot-tappin' fascinatin' on either instrument. The other players are also excellent. Read the eight reviews which came before mine to learn more, then buy this if you are a fan of the jazz of that era. Of the dozen or so jazz albums I have owned or heard from that same time frame, this one just might be the most satisfying. That's quite a compliment since the competition in my collection includes Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa and Duke Ellington.

Average customer rating: Hang Out at the Hey Hey Club MUSIC FOR THE MUSIC LOVERS I love this type of jazz, full of soul and blues... I ALMOST FELL DOWN Amazing! Amazing! Amazing!

Kansas City: A Robert Altman Film - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Hal Wilner , Kevin Mahogany , and Olu Dara Manufacturer: Verve ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music 1990s | By Decade | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Verve | Verve Music Group | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: KC After Dark: More Music From Robert Altman's Kansas City Kansas City The Real Kansas City Weird Nightmare - Meditations on Mingus Standard Time, Vol. 6: Mr. Jelly Lord ASIN: B00000470T Release Date: 1996-05-07

Tracks:

1. Blues In The Dark - James Carter/Joshua Redman
2. Moten Swing - Jesse Davis/James Carter
3. I Surrender Dear - James Carter/Nicholas Payton/Cyrus Chestnut
4. Queer Notions - David Murray/Russell Malone/Cyrus Chestnut
5. Lullaby Of The Leaves - Jesse Davis/Clark Gayton/Geri Allen
6. I Left My Baby - Mark Whitfield/David 'Fathead' Newman/Craig Handy/Curtis Fowlkes
7. Yeah, Man - Craig Handy/Joshua Redman
8. Froggy Bottom - Geri Allen/David 'Fathead' Newman/Mark Whitfield
9. Solitude - Joshua Redman
10. Pagin' The Devil - Don Byron/Olu Dara/Clark Gayton
11. Lafayette - Nicholas Payton/James Zollar/Olu Dara
12. Solitude (Reprise) - Don Byron/Christian McBride/Ron Carter

Amazon.com

Robert Altman's Kansas City is basically a 1930s gangster film, but much of the action takes place in the Hey Hey Club, a black-owned nightclub and gambling den where an all-day, all-night jam session is in progress, featuring such figures as Lester Young (played by Joshua Redman), Hawkins (Craig Handy), Ben Webster (James Carter), Basie (Cyrus Chestnut), Mary Lou Williams (Geri Allen), Hershel Evans (David Murray), Freddie Green (Mark Whitfield), Walter Page (Ron Carter), and Jimmy Rushing (Kevin Mahogany). Kansas City in the mid-1930s was a thriving jazz center and home to legendary bands led by Basie, Bennie Moten, Andy Kirk, and Jay McShann. The music here comes from that period and is done in that style. Producer Hal Willner and music director Butch Morris encouraged a loose atmosphere, with lots of give and take, even shouts of approval, and the musicians respond by playing for the immediate moment, rather than for some dimly imagined history. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

Hang Out at the Hey Hey Club .......2006-02-08

I didn't like Altman's movie at all. But my God, this soundtrack is amazing. Between the swing and bebop eras of jazz was Kansas City -- and you can hear strains of both genres in this album. The music can be loud, racuous -- and a hell of a lot of fun. It also can be soulful and sweet.

This is what jazz is all about. And, like other reviewers, I've put this on at parties and people have also asked me what this was. It stands out that much musically and it's worth every penny.

MUSIC FOR THE MUSIC LOVERS.......2005-09-26

NOTHING SUPER SPECIAL TO SAY EXCEPT THAT ONCE VIEWING THE MOVIE AND LISTENING TO THE SOUND TRACK, I HAD TO FIND OUT IF IT WAS AVAILABLE ON CD'S. IT WAS, I BOUGHT, I LOVED IT! ENOUGH SAID !

I love this type of jazz, full of soul and blues..........2004-10-17

Current musicians like Joshua Redman, James Carter and Mark Whitfield do a wonderful recreation of the music of Lester Young, Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing, Coleman Hawkins, etc. It all takes place in a bar in K.C. and the audience enhances its authenticity. I love this type of jazz, full of soul and blues.

I ALMOST FELL DOWN.......2004-04-16

While channel surfing one day I saw the documentary about this music and nearly fell on the floor. A mixture of eager young jazz musicians (Redman, Mahogany, Dare etc) teamed with seasoned ones like David Newman making music of an earlier generation. The background "noise" takes a good 3 or 4 seconds to get used to, then you realize it's all part of the free flowing atmosphere that makes this such a brilliant recording.

The recording is a great collaboration and shows just how great jazz can really be. The musicianship, the spirit, the.. oh hell.. everything is top notch.

I've put this on during parties and people stop and go "what's that?"

Mahogany's vocals and individual solos on "I left my baby"and the dueling saxes on "Yeah, Man" are just incredible.

Just buy it, you'll be so glad you did.

Amazing! Amazing! Amazing!.......2004-03-10

The playing on this album is virtuosic, and powerful, and moving, and just wonderful. This is one of the rare jazz recordings in which you can really hear how much fun the musicians are having. These guys are monsters, Craig Handy, Josh Redman, James Carter, Don Byron, Olu Dara, Nicholas Payton, Dave Newman, David Murray, Curtis Fowlkes; just killer, in your face playing from master musicians. And Kevin Mahogany, on 'I Left My Baby', is fantastic; and the 'bone solo, and the sax cadenza at the end - WOW. In my opinion, if you only own 2 jazz recordings, make it Kind Of Blue, and this one. This is the kind of expression jazz is all about. Dig it.

Average customer rating: Basie's swing and blues Glorious!

Kansas City 6 Count Basie Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Kansas City 5 For the Second Time For the First Time Mostly Blues...and Some Others Get Together ASIN: B000000YP0 Release Date: 1991-07-01

Tracks:

1. Opus Six
2. Vegas Drag
3. Scooter
4. Wee Baby
5. N.H.O.P.
6. Blues For Little Jazz
7. St. Louis Blue
8. Walking The Blues

Customer Reviews:

Basie's swing and blues.......2006-07-06

Good music, no doubt about it, but it just doesn't swing as hard as one might expect from a band led by Basie, with Eddie "Cleanhead" Wilson on sax and vocals and Louis Bellson on drums.
Everyone is doing fine (Willie Cook's trumpet, Joe Pass' guitar, Niels H-O Pedersen's bass), but it seems to me that the chemistry was not 100 % right on that particular session.

Glorious!.......2001-03-18

These small sessions reveal a very different side to Basie's swing. Before stumbling across this disk, I had only heard his big band recordings, which of course are amazing. This is a little different. It still swings, but it is more intimate. Chamber music, if you will, rather than the full orchestra. The smaller setting allows the soloists (not the least of which is Basie himself) to shine a little bit more. If you are not familiar with his big band legacy, this of course isn't the place to start. There are many great overviews of that body of work. But if you are already a convert, you may enjoy this wonderful little disk.

Average customer rating:

Kansas City Star Julia Lee Manufacturer: Bear Family ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music Jump Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Blues | Box Sets | Stores | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000001B29 Release Date: 1995-05-02

Tracks:

1. Down Home Syncopated Blues 000000
2. Meritt Stomp
3. If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
4. Paseo Street
5. Ruff Scufflin'
6. St. James Infirmary
7. He's Tall, Dark And Handsome
8. Won't You Come Over To My House?
9. Come On Over To My House
10. Trouble In Mind
11. If It's Good
12. Show Me Missouri Blues
13. Lotus Blossom
14. Dream Lucky Blues
15. Wee Baby Blues
16. If It's Good
17. I've Got A Crush On The Fuller Brush Man
18. Two Loves Have I
19. Some Of These Days
20. St. Louis Blues
21. Shake That Thing
22. Shake It And Break It

Tracks:

1. Julia's Blues
2. Lies
3. Gotta Gimme Whatcha' Got
4. When A Woman Loves A Man
5. Oh Marie
6. I'll Get Along Somehow
7. A Porter's Love Song To A Chambermaid
8. Have You Ever Been Lonely?
9. Since I've Been With You
10. Out In The Cold Again
11. Young Girl's Blues
12. On My Way Out
13. There Goes My Heart
14. Snatch And Grab It
15. If You Hadn't Gone Away
16. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
17. The Curse Of An Aching Heart
18. Bleeding Hearted Blues
19. Living Backstreet For You
20. Wise Guys (You're A Wise Guy)

Tracks:

1. Mama Don't Allow It
2. Doubtful Blues
3. Ain't It A Crime
4. Knock Me A Kiss (& Joe Alexander)
5. Cold-Hearted Daddy
6. My Sin (Take 1)
7. My Sin (Take 2)
8. My Sin (Take 3)
9. My Sin (Take 4)
10. When You're Smiling
11. I Was Wrong
12. Pagan Love Song
13. All I Ever Do Is Worry
14. Take It Or Leave It
15. That's What I Like
16. King Size Papa
17. Blues For Someone P
18. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
19. Breeze (Blowing My Baby Back To me)
20. The Spinach Song (I Didn't Like It The First Time)
21. Crazy World
22. Tell Me, Daddy
23. Christmas Spirits
24. Until The Real Thing Comes Along

Tracks:

1. Charmaine
2. Lotus Blossom
3. Marijuana
4. Sit Down And Drink It Over
5. Away From You
6. The Glory Of Love
7. Tonight's The Night
8. My Man Stands Out
9. Do You Want It?
10. It Comes In Like A Lion
11. Don't Come Too Soon
12. Ugly Papa
13. Don't Save It Too Long (The Money Song)
14. After Hours Waltz
15. You Ain't Got It No More
16. When Your Lover Has Gone
17. Oh Chuck It (In A Bucket)
18. Decent Woman Blues
19. Dragging My Heart Around

Tracks:

1. It Won't Be Long
2. You're Gonna Miss It
3. Can't Get Enough Of That Stuff
4. When A Man Has Two Women
5. Scream In The Night
6. I Know It's Wrong (The Diet Song)
7. Music, Maestro Please
8. Pipe Dreams
9. When Jennie Does That Lowdown Dance
10. If I Didn't Care
11. Lazy River
12. All This Beef And Big Ripe Tomatoes
13. Can't Get It Off My Mind
14. I Got News For You
15. Goin' To Chicago Blues
16. Last Call For Alcohol
17. Kansas City Boogie
18. Love In Bloom
19. Keep 'Em Barefoot And Busy
20. Baby I'm Through
21. Scat You Cats
22. I Can't See How
23. King Size Papa
24. Bop And Rock Lullaby

Average customer rating:

Get Together Count Basie and the Kansas City 8 Manufacturer: Pablo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Mostly Blues...and Some Others Kansas City 6 For the Second Time For the First Time Basie Jam ASIN: B000000XKA Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Ode To Pres
2. Basie's Bag
3. Swinging On The Cusp
4. Like It Used To Be
5. My Main Men
6. Pretty Time: I Can't Get Started/What Will I Tell My Heart/Talk Of TheTown/I Can't Give You Anything But Love/I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)

Average customer rating: It doesn't get any better than this!

Kansas City 5 Count Basie Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Kansas City 6 For the Second Time Mostly Blues...and Some Others Satch and Josh.....Again For the First Time ASIN: B000000Z29 Release Date: 1996-03-19

Tracks:

1. Jive At Five
2. One O' Clock Jump
3. (We Ain't Got) No Special Thing
4. Memories Of You
5. Frog's Blues
6. Rabbit
7. Perdido
8. Timekeeper
9. Mean To Me
10. Blues For Joe Turner

Customer Reviews:

It doesn't get any better than this!.......2000-09-08

The brilliance of Milt Jackson and Joe Pass are givens -- the surprise is the Basie-led rhythm section (the most laid back in all of jazz) which proves to be the perfect foil for the technical wizardry of the aforementioned Jackson and Pass. The sound created in this album is uniquely wonderful, or wonderfully unique if you like, and the next time anyone asks you why you love jazz, play this album; if they still don't "get it" then write them off as hopeless.

Average customer rating:

Mostly Blues...and Some Others Count Basie w , and Kansas City Septet Manufacturer: Pablo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Kansas City 5 Kansas City 6 Get Together For the Second Time For the First Time ASIN: B000000XK4 Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. I'll Always Be In Love With You
2. Snooky
3. Blues For Charlie Christian
4. Jaws
5. I'm Confessin' That I Love You
6. I Want A Little Girl
7. Blues In 'C'
8. Brio

Average customer rating: There's nothing like the real thing Fabulous overview of 1930's territory music scene Excellent cross-section of KC 20s-30s Jazz

The Real Kansas City Various Artists Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Traditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Jump Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Piano | Blues | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music New Orleans Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing Jazz & Big Band | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic R&B | R&B | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music 1920-1929 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music 1930-1939 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Kansas City: A Robert Altman Film - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Kansas City Jazz - 30s and 40s KC After Dark: More Music From Robert Altman's Kansas City Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop--A History The Best of Jay "Hootie" McShann: Confessin' the Blues ASIN: B000002ACU Release Date: 1996-05-28

Tracks:

1. Kater Street Rag - Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
2. Boot To Boot - Jessie Stone & His Orchestra
3. Won't You Come Over To My House - Julia Lee/George E. Lee's Novelty Swinging Orchestra
4. Paseo Street (Strut) - George E. Lee's Novelty Swinging Orchestra
5. Blue Devil Blues - Walter Page's Blue Devils
6. Prince Of Wails - Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
7. Queer Notions - Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra
8. Lotta Sax Appeal - Andy Kirk & His 12 Clouds Of Joy
9. Lady Be Good - Jones-Smith, Inc.
10. Rockin' And Swingin' - Don Albert & His Orchestra
11. Western (Moten) Swing (a.k.a. 'Moten Swing') - Carolina Cotton Pickers
12. Swinging At The Chat And Chew - Original Yellow Jackets
13. Life Goes To A Party - Harry James & His Orchestra
14. Cherry Red - Pete Johnson & His Boogie Woogie Boys
15. Lester Leaps In - Count Basie's Kansas City Seven
16. T-Town Blues - Ernie Fields & His Orchestra
17. Tickle Toe - Count Basie & His Orchestra
18. Baby, Look At You - Pete Johnson & His Boogie Woogie Boys
19. Little Joe From Chicago - Mary Lou Williams
20. I Left My Baby - Count Basie & His Orchestra
21. My Gal Sal - Harlan Leonard & His Rockets
22. Swingmatism - Jay McShann & His Orchestra
23. Harvard Blues - Count Basie & His Orchestra
24. Smooth Sailing - Horace Henderson & His Orchestra
25. Long Gone Blues - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra

Customer Reviews:

There's nothing like the real thing.......2006-05-27

Before you listen to the fake re-creations, listen to this CD. This is the true big band sound, before it was watered-down and commercialized by the Dorseys and Glenn Millers. I'm giving it five stars, even though many of the tracks aren't Kansas City style at all(Fletcher Henderson and the Carolina Cotton Pickers are Harlem and Arkansas respectively), and of course, I can't explain why Harry James is in here, but he ain't all that bad. Anyhow, just listen. This is the music that defined an era.

Fabulous overview of 1930's territory music scene.......2001-11-14

This CD is by far the best compilation of music from the black territory bands of the southwestern United States during the Depression years.

These bands toured on the back roads of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Arkansas and played mostly one-night stops at local taverns and dance halls in colored neighborhoods during the 1930's and early 1940's.

Many of Kansas City's bands went on to fame and fortune, and Count Basie was probably the most famous of these. Other bandleaders like Ernie Fields found local fame on the Kansas City - Oklahoma City - Dallas circuit, but never made it big nationally.

While this CD was conceived by CBS/Sony Entertainment as a companion to Robert Altman's movie "Kansas City", it can be thoroughly enjoyed by anyone who is looking for a good collection of swing tunes, or who wants to know more about the roots of the Swing Era in the southwestern United States.

Excellent cross-section of KC 20s-30s Jazz.......2000-02-27

Combining cuts from all the key KC players and many obscure groups, this CD is an excellent intro to the KC 20s-30s sound, and the sound quality is great. This is the original music that is celebrated by the awesome soundtrack to Robert Altman's film, "Kansas City" -- however, this disc stomps and swings more consistently from song-to-song than the soundtrack. Count Basie tears up the piano on a track or two from the mid-30's.

Average customer rating: An amazing sound

For the Second Time Count Basie and the Kansas City 3 Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: For the First Time Kansas City 5 Kansas City 6 Basie Jam 2 Basie Jam #3 ASIN: B000000YRZ Release Date: 1991-07-01

Tracks:

1. Sandman
2. If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
3. Draw
4. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
5. The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else
6. Blues For Eric
7. I Surrender, Dear
8. Racehorse

Customer Reviews:

An amazing sound.......2002-12-29

This is the second time that Count Basie meets Ray Brown and Louis Bellson to record a disc that is realy a gem.
The sound is cristal clear, the three musicians are at their best and the compositions are always played at the best tempo, giving a sound and an atmosphere that capture you from the beginning to the last note.
Ray Brown here surpasses all the records he had done before: he alternates with lavish bass lines and incredible solos...
Louis Bellson's brush work is very subtle.
And Count Basie shows here that he is not only a conductor of genius but also, and above all, a pianist of genius.

Music is a dream that can become reality if you get this disc.

Average customer rating:

Crazy Rhythm Jonathan Stout & His Campus Five , and Hilary Alexander Manufacturer: WON ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Jammin the Blues The Swing Session Insect Ball Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop Everybody's Talkin' 'Bout Miss Thing ASIN: B0006A4KNM Release Date: 2004-02-14

Tracks:

1. Boff Boff(Mop Mop)
2. Jacquet in the Box
3. Honeysuckle Rose
4. Somebody Loves Me
5. Drum Boogie
6. Hop, Skip and Jump
7. Comes Love
8. Boog-It
9. Dark Eyes
10. Goody Goody
11. Gotta Do Some War Work
12. Why Don't You Do Right
13. Savoy Blip
14. Doin' at the Doing
15. Massachusetts
16. Six Appeal
17. Bloodhound
18. There'll Be Some Changes Made
19. You Talk a Little Trash
20. Sir Charles Boogie
21. Crazy Rhythm

Album Description

Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five, featuring Hilary Alexander is back with a second album of rare, unique, but still always danceable, small-group swing. Drawing from the classic small-group sounds of the Benny Goodman Sextet, Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five, and Count Basie's Kansas City 6 and 7, the Campus Five has sought out rare tunes from the Cootie Williams Sextet, Hot Lips Page, Sir Charles Thompson, Illinois Jacquet and the 1944 Esquire All-Star Band. Complementing these hot platters are the smooth vocals of Hilary Alexander, with influences such as Ella Mae Morse, the early Anita O'Day and Peggy Lee.

Pop Music:

1. Kickin' It Up
2. Land of the Sun
3. Listen Here!
4. Live at the Five Spot [Live]
5. Live at Yoshi's, Vol. 2 [Live]
6. Lost Treasures
7. M.F. Horn
8. Maiden Voyage [Original recording remastered]
9. Make Do With What You Got
10. Masterpieces: 1926-1949 [Box set]

Pop Music