Description
On the principle that whatever was good enough for Duke Ellington must be worth your closest attention, we have assembled a series of ‘perfect’ blues performances which encompass the traditionalism of a songster like Huddie Ledbetter (who called himself Leadbelly) and the sophistication of bebop songstress Sarah Vaughan plus plenty in between.
Track List:
Count Basie / Jimmy Rushing: Good Morning Blues
Billie Holiday: Fine And Mellow
Jelly Roll Morton: Original Jelly Roll Blues
Joe Venuti / Eddie Lang: Beale Street Blues
Bessie Smith: Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out
Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven: Potato Head Blues
Leadbelly: Backwater Blues
Kay Starr: Stormy Weather
Fats Waller: Fats Waller’s Original E-Flat Blues
Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra: Blues In The Night
Maxine Sullivan: St. Louis Blues
Benny Carter & His Orchestra: Swingin’ The Blues
Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra: (What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue?
Bessie Smith: I’m Down In The Dumps
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four: To To Blues
Nat Gonella & His Georgians: Hesitation Blues
Johnny Dodds & His Orchestra: Red Onion Blues
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five: Early In The Morning
Billie Holiday: I Love My Man (Billie’s Blues)
Woody Herman & His Orchestra: Blues On Parade
Sarah Vaughan: Lover Man
Count Basie / Jimmy Rushing: Harvard Blues
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