Label: Decca Records.
Release Date: 1950.
Recording Date: 1935 - 1939.
This 10" LP has eight swing era recordings by five different small groups. Singer Mildred Bailey and a quartet (trumpeter Bunny Berigan, altoist Johnny Hodges, pianist Teddy Wilson, and bassist Grachan Moncur) perform "Squeeze Me" and "Downhearted Blues"; Jess Stacy's trio in 1935 uplifts "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise"; pianist Meade Lux Lewis is heard on a remake of "Honky Tonk Train Blues"; and there are two songs apiece from a Bud Freeman group with Bunny Berigan and clarientist Joe Marsala's Delta Six (with Benny Carter, Pete Brown, and Bobby Hackett). All of the music has since been reissued in more complete form, but this 10" has more than its share of exciting highpoints. - Review by Scott Yanow
Release Date: 1950.
Recording Date: 1935 - 1939.
This 10" LP has eight swing era recordings by five different small groups. Singer Mildred Bailey and a quartet (trumpeter Bunny Berigan, altoist Johnny Hodges, pianist Teddy Wilson, and bassist Grachan Moncur) perform "Squeeze Me" and "Downhearted Blues"; Jess Stacy's trio in 1935 uplifts "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise"; pianist Meade Lux Lewis is heard on a remake of "Honky Tonk Train Blues"; and there are two songs apiece from a Bud Freeman group with Bunny Berigan and clarientist Joe Marsala's Delta Six (with Benny Carter, Pete Brown, and Bobby Hackett). All of the music has since been reissued in more complete form, but this 10" has more than its share of exciting highpoints. - Review by Scott Yanow
Credits: Hayes Alvis - bass; Lovie Austin - composer; Mildred Bailey - primary artist, vocals; Bunny Berigan - trumpet; Benny Carter - sax (alto), trumpet; Cozy Cole - drums; Eddie Condon - guitar; Israel Crosby - bass; Leonard Feather - composer; Bud Freeman - clarinet, composer, primary artist, sax (tenor); Bobby Hackett - guitar; Johnny Hodges - sax (alto); Alberta Hunter - composer; Gene Krupa - drums; Billy Kyle - piano; Meade "Lux" Lewis - composer, piano, primary artist; Eugene Lockhart - composer; Joe Marsala - clarinet, primary artist; Grachan Moncur III - bass; Jess Stacy - piano, primary artist; Claude Thornhill - piano; Fats Waller - composer; Clarence Williams - composer; Teddy Wilson - piano.
Tracks: 1) Squeeze Me - Mildred Bailey and Her Alley Cats; 2) Downhearted Blues - Mildred Bailey and Her Alley Cats; 3) The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise - Jess Stacy, Gene Krupa and Israel Crosby; 4) Honky Tonk Train Blues - Meade "Lux" Lewis; 5) Twelve Bar Stampede - Joe Marsala and His Delta Six; 6) Feather Bed Lament - Joe Marsala and His Delta Six; 7) Tillie's Downtown Now - Bud Freeman and His Windy City Five; 8) The Buzzard - Bud Freeman and His Windy City Five.