Playlist Date & Time: 4/28/2006 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Program: Archived Playlist for The Minister of Swing
The first weekend of Jazzfest. Celebrating Duke Ellington's birthday April 29 and Ella Fitzgerald's April 25.
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Joe Jackson
Rhythm Delivery
Tucker Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
A&M
1988
Opening theme.
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Count Basie and his Orchestra
Blues in the Dark
1938-1939
Classics
1990
January 3, 1938. Jimmy Rushing vocal.
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Tommy Dorsey and his Clambake Seven
After You
1937 vol. 3
Classics
1998
July 20, 1937.
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Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'
The Private Collection vol. 9
Kaz
1996
Ray Nance vocal and trumpet.
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Henry Allen and his Orchestra
Jack the Bellboy
1937-1941
Classics
1992
July 22, 1941. Rejected by Okeh.
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Earl Hines and his Orchestra
Grand Terrace Shuffle
1937-1939
Classics
1990
July 12, 1939.
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Artie Shaw and his Orchestra
Don't Fall Asleep
1939-1940
Classics
1999
March 3, 1940.
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Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra
Big Chief De Sota
1934-1937
Classics
1990
March 27, 1936.
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Harry James and his Orchestra
Fanny-May
1939
Classics
1997
May 24, 1939.
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Mound City Blue Blowers
You've Been Taking Lessons
1935-1936
Classics
1996
May 9, 1935. Red McKenzie vocal and comb. Bunny Berigan trumpet.
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Billie Holiday and her Orchestra
Me, Myself and I
1933-1937
Classics
1991
June 15, 1937. Members of the Basie Orchestra playing: Buck Clayton, trumpet, Lester Young, tenor sax, Walter Page, string bass.
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Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra
Dinah's in a Jam
1938 vol. 2
Classics
1993
April 11, 1938.
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Cab Calloway and his Orchestra
Peck-A-Doodle-Doo
1938-1939
Classics
1991
March 23, 1938.
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Ella Fitzgerald and her Famous Orchestra
Gulf Coast Blues
The Early Years Pt. 2
GRP
1993
May 9, 1940.
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Jelly Roll Morton
King Porter Stomp
1939-1940
Classics
1992
December 14, 1939. Piano solo.
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Stella Brooks
Jazz Me Blues
Bechet 1945-1946
Classics
1997
May 7, 1946. Brooks vocal with notables Sidney Bechet on soprano sax and George Brunies trombone.
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Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra
Sluuming on Park Avenue
1935-1937
Classics
1990
January 26, 1937.
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Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra
Beulah's Boogie
Lionel Hampton Story
Proper
2000
May 21, 1945.
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Glenn Miller and his Orchestra
I Just Got A Letter
The Complete Glenn Miller
BMG
1991
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Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
Cocanut Grove
1939-1940
Classics
1999
April 10, 1940.
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Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
Mood Indigo
The Private Collection vol. 10
Kaz
1996
Live recording from 1958.
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Woody Herman and his Orchestra
Blue Flame
Woody Herman Story
Proper
2000
February 13, 1941.
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Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters
Shuffle Rhythm
Swing Time!
Columbia
1993
March 15, 1937.
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Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra
Wrappin' It Up
1932-1934
Classics
1990
September 12, 1934.
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Fats Waller and his Rhythm
Lulu's Back In Town
1935
Classics
1994
May 8, 1935.
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Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club Orchestra
Long About Midnight
1932-1934
Classics
1990
January 22, 1934.
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Casa Loma Orchestra
Jungle Jitters
Maniac's Ball
Hep
1996
June 10, 1936.
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Tommy Dorsey and his Clambake Seven
Don't Ever Change
1937 vol. 2
Classics
1998
June 12, 1937.
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Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra
Song of the Volga Boatmen
Stop, Look and Listen
Jasmine
2002
April 29, 1938.
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Raymond Scott Quintette
Celebration on the Planet Mars
Microphone Music
Basta
January 1938.
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Lester Young Band
Tickle-Toe
Lester Young vol. 2
Media
1993
February 15, 1941. Live recording.
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Ovie Alston and his Orchestra
Home Cookin' Momma
Claude Hopkins 19371940
Classics
1993
October 21, 1938. Hopkins on piano.
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Mills Blue Rhythm Band
Everything is Still Okay
1934-1936
Classics
1993
May 20, 1936. Red Allen trumpet.
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Mills Blue Rhythm Band
Red Rhythm
1934-1936
Classics
1993
May 20, 1936.
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Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra
Harmony in Harlem
1937 vol. 2
Classics
1993
September 20, 1937.
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Chick Webb and his Orchestra
I Want to be Happy
Ella The Early Years Pt. 1
GRP
1992
December 17, 1937. Ella Fitgerald vocal.
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Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans
Second Balcony Jump
1938-1941
Classics
1993
February 28, 1941.
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Don Redman and his Orchestra
We Don't Know from Nothin'
1936-1939
Classics
1991
September 30, 1936. Redman vocal.
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Quintette of the Hot Club de France with Django Reinhardt
My Meloncholy Baby
Django 1938-1939
Classics
1994
March 22, 1939.
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Benny Carter and his Swing Quartet
Tiger Rag
1936
Classics
1990
June 20, 1936.
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Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five
Early in the Morning
Jivin' with Jordan
Proper
2002
April 23, 1947.
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Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra
Brazil
Cuban Mambo
Saar
1992
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Perez Prado and his Orchestra
Adios Mi Chaparrita
Mambo Jambo
Saar
1992
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Artie Shaw and his Orchestra
The Calypso
1940-1941
Classics
2001
December 17, 1940.
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Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
Blue Skies
Birth of Swing
BMG
1991
June 25, 1935.
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Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra
Pompton Turnpike
Nipper's Greatest Hits of the 1940s
BMG
1989
July 19, 1940.
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Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra
Blue Goose
1940
Classics
1995
May 28, 1940.
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Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra
Shanty Boat on the Mississippi
1939-1940
Classics
1991
June 15, 1939.
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Floyd Ray and his Orchestra
3:00 in the Morning
Tea Pad Songs
Stash
1976
February 1939. Closing theme.
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