The Encyclopedia of Jazz Swing Time The Heyday Of Jazz Vol 38 - 50(jazz)(mp3@320)[rogercc][ ]

The Encyclopedia of Jazz: Swing Time - The Heyday Of Jazz


Discs 38 -50 of 100


Released : December 9, 2008


Label: Membran


Quality: Mp3@ 320



Disc 38 John Kirby Vol.1 1938-39

John Kirby (December 31, 1908 – June 14, 1952), was a jazz double-bassist who also played trombone and tuba.


Kirby's early life is largely unknown; he may have been born in Winchester, Virginia, although other sources state he was born in Baltimore, Maryland, orphaned, and adopted. He began working in New York at 17, initially playing trombone until it was stolen, when he switched to tuba. Some sources link him to Baltimore in 1926, but he seems to have been based in New York until moving to California shortly before his death.


Kirby joined Fletcher Henderson's orchestra as a tuba player in 1929. In the early 1930s, he performed some complicated tuba work on a number of Henderson's recordings, but switched to double-bass when tuba fell out of favor as jazz bands' primary bass instrument. About 1933 Kirby left Henderson to play with Chick Webb (twice), before returning to Henderson, and thence joining Lucky Millinder; he briefly led a quartet in 1935, but was usually employed as bassist in others' groups.


Securing a gig at the Onyx Club on 52nd Street in 1937 confirmed Kirby's status as a bandleader, although in the first Onyx Club lineup, it was singer-drummer Leo Watson who got featured billing. Kirby's sextet was soon known as the Onyx Club Boys, and took the shape it would basically hold until World War II,



01. Rehearsin' For A Nervous Breakdown [02:39]


02. From A Flat To C [02:36]


03. Pastel Blue (Blue Dilemma) [03:11]


04. Undecided [03:01]


05. By The Waters Of The Minnetonka [03:09]


06. It Feels Good [02:45]


07. Effervescent Blues [02:49]


08. The Turf [02:53]


09. Dawn On The Desert [02:55]


10. Anitra's Dance [02:47]


11. Sweet Georgia Brown [02:51]


12. Drink To Me With Thine Eyes [03:00]


13. Minute Waltz [02:33]


14. Front And Center [02:56]


15. Royal Garden Blues [02:32]


16. Opus 5 [02:49]


17. Impromptu [02:39]


18. Blues Skies [02:40]


19. Rose Room [02:37]


20. I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful) [03:02]


21. Little Brown Jug [02:45]


22. Nocturne [02:46]


23. One Alone [02:49]


24. Humoresque [02:17]


25. Serenade [02:34]

John Kirby and His Onyx Club Boys (Tracks 1-5)


John Kirby and His Orchestra (Tracks 6-25)

Disc 39 John Kirby Vol.2 1940-41



01. Jumpin' in The Pump Room [02:50]


02. Milumbu [02:43]


03. Go Your Way [03:16]


04. 20th Century Closet [02:51]


05. Temptation [03:09]


06. Blues Petite [03:11]


07. On A Little Street In Singapore [02:54]


08. Chloe [02:48]


09. Andiology [02:47]


10. Can't We Be Friends [02:38]


11. Then I'll Be Happy [02:52]


12. I Love You Truly [02:59]


13. Frasquita Serenade [02:41]


14. Sextet From 'Lucia' [02:33]


15. Coquette [02:57]


16. Zooming At the Zombie [02:40]


17. Bounce Of The Sugar Plum Fairy [02:23]


18. Beethoven Riffs On [02:52]


19. Double Talk [02:32]


20. Cuttin' The Campus [02:57]

John Kirby and His Orchestra

Disc 40 John Kirby Vol.3 (1941-43)



01. Coquette [03:02]


02. Royal Garden Blues [01:46]


03. Close Shave [02:30]


04. Bugler's Dilemma [02:33]


05. It's Only A Paper Moon [03:09]


06. Fifi's Rhapsody [02:58]


07. Night Whispers [03:00]


08. Tweed Me [02:48]


09. Move Over [02:47]


10. Wondering Where [02:43]


11. Schubert's Serenade [02:31]


12. Toselli's Serenade [01:47]


13. Keep Smilin' [03:08]


14. Comin' Back [02:41]


15. No Blues At All [02:02]


16. St. Louis Blues [02:46]


17. Do You Savvy [03:09]


18. Tunisian Trail [03:32]


19. 9-20 Special [02:48]


20. Crossroads [02:18]


21. Can't We Be Friends [02:41]

John Kirby and His Orchestra

Disc 41 Metronome, Esquire All-Stars (1939-46)

The Metronome All-Stars were a collection of jazz musicians assembled for studio recordings by Metronome Magazine, based on its readers' polls. The studio sessions were held in the years 1939-42, 1946-53, and 1956, and typically consisted of two tracks which allowed each participant a chance to solo for one chorus. Earlier recordings feature more swing style, while the later sessions tend more toward bebop.



01. Blue Lou [03:22]


02. The Blues [03:21]


03. King Porter Stomp [03:25]


04. All Star Strut [03:08]


05. Bugle Call Rag [03:12]


06. One O'Clock Jump [03:26]


07. Royal Flush (1) [03:28]


08. Royal Flush (2) [03:30]


09. Dear Old Southland [03:20]


10. I Got Rhythm (1) [03:24]


11. I Got Rhythm (2) [03:23]


12. Long Long Journey [04:33]


13. Snafu [04:15]


14. The One That Got Away [04:27]


15. Gone With The Wind [04:39]


16. Look Out [04:37]


17. Metronome All Out [04:16]


18. Indiana Winter [02:29]


19. Indian Summer [03:13]


20. Blow Me Down [02:55]


21. Buckin' The Blues [02:59]

All - Star Band (Tracks 1-2)


Metronome All Star Band (Tracks 3,5-9,16-17)


Metronome All Star Nine (Tracks 4)


Metronome All Star - Star Leaders (Tracks 10-11)


Esquire All - American Award Winners Tracks(12-15,18-21)

Disc 42 Milton 'Mezz' Mezzrow 1936-38



Milton Mesirow, better known as Mezz Mezzrow (November 9, 1899 – August 5, 1972) was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist from Chicago, Illinois. Mezzrow is well known for organizing and financing historic recording sessions with Tommy Ladnier and Sidney Bechet. Mezzrow also recorded a number of times with Bechet and briefly acted as manager for Louis Armstrong. He is equally well remembered, however, for being a colorful character, as clearly portrayed in his autobiography Really The Blues, as for his music. The book, which takes its title from a Bechet musical piece, was co-written by Bernard Wolfe and first published in 1946.


Mezzrow organized and took part in recording sessions involving black musicians in the 1930s and 1940s including Benny Carter, Teddy Wilson, Frankie Newton, Tommy Ladnier and Sidney Bechet. Mezzrow's 1938 sessions for the French jazz critic Hugues Panassie involved Bechet and Ladnier and helped spark the 'New Orleans revival'.


In the mid-1940s Mezzrow started his own record label, King Jazz Records, featuring himself in groups that usually included Sidney Bechet and, often, trumpeter Oran 'Hot Lips' Page. Mezzrow also can be found and heard playing on six recordings by Fats Waller. He appeared at the 1948 Nice Jazz Festival.Following that, he made his home in France and organized many bands that included French musicians like Claude Luter, as well as visiting Americans such as Buck Clayton, Peanuts Holland, Jimmy Archey, Kansas Fields and Lionel Hampton. In 1953, in Paris with ex-Basie trumpeter Buck Clayton, he made a recording of the Louis Armstrong's "West End Blues."


Mezzrow became better-known for his drug-dealing than his music. In his time, he was so well known in the jazz community for selling marijuana that "Mezz" became slang for marijuana, a reference used in the Stuff Smith song, "If You're a Viper". He was also known as the "Muggles King," the word "muggles" being slang for marijuana at that time; the title of the 1928 Louis Armstrong recording "Muggles" refers to this.


Mezzrow married a black woman, Mae (also known as Johnnie Mae), moved to Harlem, New York, and declared himself a "voluntary Negro." In 1940 he was caught by the police to be in possession of sixty joints trying to enter a jazz club at the 1939 New York World's Fair, with intent to distribute. When he was sent to jail, he insisted to the guards that he was black and was transferred to the segregated prison's black section

01. Free Love [02:52]


02. Dissonance [02:53]


03. Swinging With Mezz [03:04]


04. Love, You're Not The One For Me [03:10]


05. Old Fashioned Love [03:06]


06. Apologies [03:20]


07. Sendin' The Vipers [02:57]


08. 35th & Calumet [02:50]


09. A Melody From The Sky [03:02]


10. Lost [02:29]


11. Mutiny In The Parlor [03:04]


12. The Panic Is On [02:41]


13. I'se A Muggin' Pt. 1 [02:44]


14. I'se A Muggin' Pt. 2 [02:46]


15. Blues In Disguise [03:17]


16. That's How I Feel Today [02:35]


17. Hot Club Stomp [02:38]


18. The Swing Session's Called To Order [02:22]


19. Revolutionary Blues [02:47]


20. Comin' On With The Come On + Part 1 [03:29]


21. Comin' On With The Come On + Part 2 [03:03]


22. Swingin' For Mezz (Careless Love) [03:09]




Mezz Mezzrow and His Orchestra (Tracks 1-8,15-22)


Mezz Mezzrow and Swing Gang (Tracks 9-14)

Disc 43 Frankie Newton 1937-39



Frankie Newton (William Frank Newton, January 4, 1906 – March 11, 1954) was a jazz trumpeter from Emory, Virginia. He played in several New York bands in the 1920s and 1930s, including those led by Sam Wooding, Chick Webb, Charlie Barnet, Andy Kirk and Charlie "Fess" Johnson. In the 1940s he played with bands led by Lucky Millinder and Pete Brown. He played in clubs in New York and Boston, with musicians such as pianist Art Tatum, pianist James P. Johnson, drummer Sid Catlett and clarinetist Edmond Hall.


He accompanied Bessie Smith on her final recordings (November 24, 1933), Maxine Sullivan on 'Loch Lomond', and Billie Holiday on her original 'Strange Fruit' session in 1939.


Between March 1937 and August 1939, eight recording sessions issued under Newton's name were produced. Three sessions in 1937 were made for Irving Mills's Variety label. In 1939, Newton recorded a six-song session with Victor, a four-song session for Vocalion, two individual one-song sessions for Blue Note, and finally one two-song session for Vocalion—14 records in all.

01. You Showed Me the Way [02:46]


02. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone [02:36]


03. Who's Sorry Now? [02:47]


04. I've Found a New Baby [02:39]


05. The Brittwood Stomp [02:44]


06. There's No Two Ways About It [02:55]


07. 'Cause My baby Says It's So [02:42]


08. Easy Living [02:49]


09. The Onyx Hop [02:46]


10. Where or When [02:34]


11. Rosetta [03:03]


12. Minor Jive [03:08]


13. The World is Waiting for the Sunrise [03:13]


14. Who? [03:12]


15. The Blues My Baby Gave to Me [03:14]


16. Rompin' (Romping at the Victor) [02:37]


17. Tab's Blues [02:56]


18. Jitters [03:02]


19. Frankie's Jump [02:48]


20. Jam Fever [03:09]


21. Vamp [02:53]


22. Parallel Fifths [03:17]

Frankie Newton and His Uptown Serenaders (Tracks 1-7)


Frankie Newton and His Orchestra (Tracks 8-16)


Frankie Newton and His Cafe Society Orchestra(Tracks 17-22)

Disc 44 Oscar Peterson Vol.1 1945-47

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won eight Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career. He is considered to have been one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, having played thousands of live concerts to audiences worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years.



01. I Got Rythm [03:01]


02. Louise [02:56]


03. My Blue Heaven [03:00]


04. The Sheik of Araby [03:02]


05. Flying Home [03:10]


06. The C Jam Blues [02:39]


07. If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight [03:08]


08. Humoresque [02:49]


09. Blue Moon [02:51]


10. In a Little Spanish Town [03:12]


11. Time on My Hands [02:56]


12. China Boy [02:50]


13. Runnin' Wild [02:46]


14. Sweet Lorraine [03:08]


15. Honeydripper [03:12]


16. East of the Sund (West of the Moon) [03:36]


17. Back Home Again in Indiana [03:12]


18. Margie [02:42]


19. I Surrender Dear [03:22]


20. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You [03:00]

Oscar Peterson Trio

Disc 45 Oscar Peterson Vol.2 1947-50



01. Oscar's Boogie [02:43]


02. Smiles [02:32]


03. Stairway To The Stars [03:04]


04. Poor Butterfly [02:48]


05. Oop Bop Sh'Bam [02:55]


06. Sweet Georgia Brown [03:03]


07. Sleepy Time Gal [03:00]


08. Rockin' In Rhythm [03:08]


09. Fine And Dandy [02:41]


10. My Heart Stood Still [03:26]


11. Somebody Loves Me [02:39]


12. At Sundown [03:09]


13. Jumpin' With Symphony Sid [03:00]


14. Robbins Nest [03:15]


15. Tico Tico [03:01]


16. Get Happy [02:31]


17. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes [03:07]


18. Exactly Like You [02:27]


19. Deep Purple [03:12]


20. I'll Remember April [03:34]


21. Easy To Love [03:18]


22. Taking A Chance On Love [03:05]


23. Squatty Roo [03:25]


24. After All [03:37]

Oscar Peterson Trio (Tracks 1-4,9-12)


Oscar Peterson Quartet (Tracks 5-8 )


Oscar Peterson (Tracks 13-24)

Disc 46 Django Reinhardt Vol.1 1936-1940

Jean "Django" Reinhardt ; 23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) was a Belgian guitarist and composer.

Reinhardt is often regarded as one of the greatest guitar players of all time and is the first important European jazz musician who made major contributions to the development of the idiom. Using only the index and middle fingers of his left hand on his solos (his third and fourth fingers were paralysed after an injury in a fire), Reinhardt invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique (sometimes called 'hot' jazz guitar) that has since become a living musical tradition within French Gypsy culture. With violinist Stéphane Grappelli, he co-founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France, described by critic Thom Jurek as "one of the most original bands in the history of recorded jazz." Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become jazz standards, including "Minor Swing", "Daphne", "Belleville", "Djangology", "Swing '42", and "Nuages".

01. I'se A-Muggin' [03:06]


02. I Can't Give You Anything But Love Baby [03:22]


03. Oriental Shuffle [02:39]


04. After You've Gone [03:06]


05. Are You In The Mood [02:49]


06. Limehouse Blues [02:46]


07. Nagasaki [02:49]


08. Swing Guitars [02:25]


09. Georgia On My Mind [03:14]


10. Shine (Foxtrot) [02:56]


11. In The Still Of The Night [03:04]


12. Sweet Chorus [02:44]


13. Exactly Like You [02:30]


14. Charleston [02:52]


15. You're Driving Me Crazy [02:54]


16. Tears [02:37]


17. Solitude [03:09]


18. Hot Lips [03:04]


19. Ain't Misbehavin' [02:54]


20. Rose Room [02:44]


21. Body & Soul [03:25]


22. When Day Is Done [03:10]

Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France

Disc 47 Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli Vol.2 1937

Stéphane Grappelli ; 26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997) was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands. He has been called "the grandfather of jazz violinists" and continued playing concerts around the world well into his 80s.


For the first three decades of his career, he was billed using a gallicised spelling of his last name, Grappelly, reverting to "Grappelli" in 1969. The latter, Ital