Description
Release Date: 2013
Label: Acrobat Music
Track List
Disc 1
1 She’s A Great Great Girl Roger Wolfe Khan & His Orch
2 Makin’ Friends Eddie Condon & His Footwarmers
3 I’m Gonna Stomp Mr Henry Lee Eddie’s Hot Shots
4 Knockin’ A Jug Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
5 My Kinda Love Ben Pollack & His Park Central Orchestra
6 Dinah Red Nichols & his Five Pennies
7 Never Had A Reason To Believe In You Mound City Blue Blowers
8 Ridin’ But Walkin’ Fats Waller & His Buddies
9 Beale Street Blues Benny Goodman & The Charleston Chasers
10 You Rascal You Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
11 After You’ve Gone Joe Venuti/Eddie Lang And Their All Star Orchestra
12 Two Tickets To Georgia Ben Pollack & His Orchestra
13 Somebody Stole Gabriel’s Horn Jack Teagarden & His Chicagoans
14 Plantation Moods Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
15 Shake Your Hips Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
16 I Got A Right To Sing The Blues Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
17 Texas Tea Party Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
18 A Hundred Years From Today Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
19 Fare Thee Well To Harlem Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
20 Junk Man Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
21 Riverboat Shuffle Adrian Rollini & His Orchestra
22 Serenade To A Shylock Eddie Condon & His Windy City Seven
23 Tiger Rag Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
24 I Swung The Election Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
Disc 2
1 Wolverine Blues Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
2 Swingin’ On The Teagarden Gate Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
3 Jack Hits The Road Bud Freeman & His Famous Chicagoans
4 The Big Eight Blues Jack Teagarden’s Big Eight
5 Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
6 Casanova’s Lament The Capitol Jazzmen
7 The Blues Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
8 Aunt Hagar’s Blues Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
9 Basin Street Blues Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
10 Shine Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
11 Chinatown My Chinatown Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
12 Royal Garden Blues Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
13 East Of The Sun Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
14 China Boy Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
15 If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight The V-Disc All Stars
16 Big T Blues Jack Teagarden & His Swingin’ Gates
17 Somebody Loves Me George Wettling & His New Yorkers
18 King Porter Stomp Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
19 Hindustan Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
20 The Blues Jack Teagarden, Woody Herman & The All Stars
21 St Louis Blues Jack Teagarden’s Big Eight
22 St James Infirmary Louis Armstrong & His All Stars
23 Lover Charles La Vere & His Chicago Loopers
24 Mighty Lak’ A Rose Jack Teagarden & Ben Pollack’s Californians
Notes
Jack Teagarden was one of the great names of jazz. In a career which spanned five decades, he established a reputation as one of the pre-eminent trombonists of his generation as well as a distinctive blues-influenced vocalist, who was equally at home as a bandleader or a sideman under another leadership. He recorded prolifically throughout his career so any collection of fifty or so tracks will only be able to take a selectively representative sample of his work through that period, which is what this set is designed to do. It comprises recordings both with bands that he led and where he was a member of another leader’s ensemble, plus some co-operative ventures. Most are studio recordings, but there are one or two ‘live’ tracks as well. The anthology does not try to tread any new ground or bring any new creative angle to the appreciation of his work, merely to offer a thoroughly enjoyable overview of the quarter century that comprised the most important part of his career from his early small group recordings in the late ‘20s through the big band era to the heyday of the ‘50s Dixieland revival. It is a celebration of a fine and versatile musician working alongside his peers in a medium of which he had complete command.
