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The jazz singers
Title
The jazz singers [sound recording].
Published
Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Collection of Recordings, p1998.
Physical Description
5 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Local Notes
Program booklet shelved separately.
Notes
Accompanied by program notes by Robert G. O'Meally, with discographical details.
Format
Audio
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
System details note
Compact discs.
Contents
[cd. 1] West End blues (Eva Taylor)
In the house blues (Bessie Smith)
2:19 blues (Louis Armstrong)
I left my baby (Jimmy Rushing)
'Tain't nobody's business if I do (Billie Holiday)
Blues with Helen (Helen Humes)
I won't be here long (Hot Lips Page)
Jelly, Jelly (Billy Eckstine)
Lotus blossom (Julia Lee)
Goin' to Kansas City (Jimmy Witherspoon)
Goin' to Chicago (Joe Williams with Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
She's got to go (Ernie Andrews)
Never make your move too soon (Ernestine Anderson)
D.B. blues (Lorez Alexandria)
Come on in my kitchen (Cassandra Wilson)
Nobody's fault but mine (Blind Willie Johnson)
One day (Angelic Gospel Singers ; Dixie Hummingbirds)
I'm going to live the life I sing about in my song (Mahalia Jackson)
Gimme a pigfoot (Bessie Smith)
Doctor jazz (Jelly Roll Morton)
Shakin' the African (Don Redman)
It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) (Ivie Anderson).
[cd. 2] Man from Harlem (Cab Calloway)
Let me off uptown (Anita O'Day)
Saturday night fish fry (Pearl Bailey & Moms Mabley)
Hogwash (Louis Jordan)
Good rockin' tonight (Wynonie Harris)
All of me (Louis Armstrong)
Top hat, white tie and tails (Louis Armstrong)
I can't give you anything but love (Ethel Waters)
I can't give you anything but love (Billie Holiday)
These foolish things (Billie Holiday)
Me, myself and I (Billie Holiday)
Lover, come back to me (Mildred Bailey)
Don't get around much anymore (Al Hibbler)
You're driving me crazy (Joe Turner)
Don't be that way (Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong)
Night and day (Frank Sinatra)
Some of these days (Jimmy Rushing)
Wrap your troubles in dreams (Sarah Vaughan)
I get a kick out of you (Dinah Washington)
There's a small hotel (Joe Williams)
Just you, just me (Nat King Cole).
[cd. 3] Give me the simple life (Dakota Station)
Love me or leave me (Nina Simone)
You are my sunshine (Aretha Franklin)
What's going on (Marvin Gaye)
I'm gonna lock my heart (Etta Jones)
Yesterdays (Billie Holiday)
Strange fruit (Billie Holiday)
You've changed (Billie Holiday)
Someone to watch over me (Ella Fitzgerald)
Until the real thing comes along (Ella Fitzgerald)
Until the real thing comes along (Fats Waller)
You don't know what love is (Dinah Washington)
For all we know (June Christy)
Angel eyes (Chris Connor)
In the still of the night (Billy Eckstine)
Save your love for me (Nancy Wilson)
Travelin' light (Shirley Horn)
Prelude to a kiss (Sarah Vaughan)
My little brown book (Gloria Lynne)
Lush life (Johnny Hartmann)
I got it bad (and that ain't good) (Carmen McRae).
[cd. 4] This is always (Betty Carter)
All of me (Little Jimmy Scott)
What are you doing the rest of your life? (Earl Coleman)
You're my thrill (Helen Merrill)
Could I be the one? (Al Green)
Jazz me blues (Lucille Hegamin)
The mooche (Baby Cox)
Parker's mood (King Pleasure)
Lullaby of Birdland (Sarah Vaughan)
Down for double (Mel Torm'e)
Jumpin' at the woodside (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
Left alone (Abbey Lincoln)
Stolen moments (Mark Murphy)
Worry now later (Jeanne Lee)
Get it straight (Carmen McRae)
'Round midnight (Bobby McFerrin)
Doodlin' (Dee Dee Bridgewater)
Improvised scat song (Jelly Roll Morton)
Hotter than that (Louis Armstrong).
[cd.5] Sweet Sue (Just you) (Louis Armstrong)
My honey's lovin' arms (Bing Crosby & The Mills Brothers)
Ool ya koo (Dizzy Gillespie)
Disappointed (Eddie Jefferson)
Them there eyes (Ella Fitzgerald)
The way you look tonight (Anita O'Day)
This masquerade (excerpt) (George Benson)
Frenesi (Betty Carter)
Jazzola (Noble Sissle)
Hobo, you can't ride this train (Louis Armstrong)
Rockin' chair (Louis Armstrong)
'Tain't what you do (Trummy Young)
Vol vist du gaily star (Bon Bon) [George Tunnell]
We've got the blues (Leo Watson)
Cow cow boogie (Ella Fitzgerald)
Babalu (Orooney) (Slim Gaillard)
Chi-Chi-Chi-Chicago (Nellie Lutcher)
Did you call her today (excerpt) (Ben Webster)
Takes two to tango (Lester Young)
Mumbles (Clark Terry)
Close your eyes (shut yo' mouth) (Slam Stewart & Major Holley).
Issue number
RD 113 Smithsonian Collection of Recordings
RJ 0040 Smithsonian Collection of Recordings
RD 113-1--RD 113-5 Smithsonian Collection of Recordings
Subjects
Also listed under
Angelic Gospel Singers.
Dixie Hummingbirds.
Red Hot Peppers (Musical group)
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross (Musical group)
Mills Brothers.
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