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Various Artists - Release Date: 1993
- Total Time: 166:15
- Type: Collection (various artists), Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Jazz
Review
The Smithsonian's four-disc tribute to the swing/big band era, compiled by the late, great Martin Williams, offers as comprehensive a look at the genre as possible from a general perspective. Williams featured great and lightweight bands, highly popular vocalists like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, dubious ones with large followings like Bob Eberly and Doris Day and underrated ones such as Al Hibbler and Helen Humes. Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Woody Herman and Benny Goodman are well-represented, but so are Harry James, Glenn Miller and Bob Crosby. The sound quality is first-rate and the liner notes are informative, and the material is nicely divided between familiar cuts and obscure tracks. The Smithsonian's sets are sometimes attacked for emphasizing one style over another or not representing each era of a genre; that cannot be leveled at this anthology. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| After You've Gone | Turner Layton, Henry Creamer | (3:00) | |
| Black and Blue | Andy Razaf, Harry Brooks, Fats Waller | (3:07) | |
| Blue Again | Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields | (3:09) | |
| Stardust | Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish | (3:33) | |
| I've Got the World on a String | Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler | (3:11) | |
| Swing That Music | (2:50) | ||
| Struttin' With Some Barbecue | Lil Armstrong | (2:57) | |
| It's the Talk of the Town | Jerry Livingston, Al J. Neiburg, Marty Symes | Coleman Hawkins, |
(3:32) |
| Nagasaki | Mort Dixon, Harry Warren | Henry "Red" Allen, |
(3:25) |
| Zaz Zuh Zaz | Cabell "Cab" Calloway, Harry White | (3:24) | |
| My Gal | Al Bernard | (2:40) | |
| A Ghost of a Chance | Victor Young, Bing Crosby, Ned Washington | (2:55) | |
| A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid | Andy Razaf, James P. Johnson | Mildred Bailey, |
(3:12) |
| Smoke Dreams | Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown | (3:04) | |
| I Can't Get Started | Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke | (4:45) | |
| Clap Your Hands! Here Comes Charley! | Joseph Meyer | (2:32) | |
| Undecided (Lyrics) | Charlie Shavers, |
(3:13) | |
| Have Mercy | Chick Webb, Buck Ram | (3:06) | |
| At Long Last Love | Cole Porter | Bea Wain, |
(2:52) |
| I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues | Ted Koehler, Harold Arlen | (2:44) | |
| Embraceable You | George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin | Bobby Hackett | (2:56) |
| Tain't What You Do | Sy Oliver, Trummy Young | Trummy Young, |
(3:03) |
| Well, All Right, Then | Sy Oliver | (2:39) | |
| More Than You Know | Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu, Vincent Youmans | (2:52) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Stardust | Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish | Jack Jenney | (3:14) |
| Kitty on Toast | Fletcher Henderson, Horace Henderson | (2:45) | |
| Piano Man | Earl Hines | (2:34) | |
| Skylark | Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael | (3:07) | |
| Stormy Monday Blues | Earl Hines, Billy Eckstine, |
(3:05) | |
| Darn That Dream | James Van Heusen, Eddie DeLange | Mildred Bailey, |
(2:55) |
| The Man I Love | George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin | Helen Forrest, |
(3:49) |
| Solo Flight | Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian, Jimmy Mundy | (2:47) | |
| How Deep Is the Ocean? | Irving Berlin | Peggy Lee, |
(3:04) |
| Why Don't You Do Right? | Joe McCoy | Peggy Lee, |
(3:12) |
| Clarinade | Mel Powell | (2:49) | |
| Blue Skies | Irving Berlin | (3:01) | |
| All or Nothing at All | Jack Lawrence, |
Frank Sinatra, |
(2:57) |
| I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You) | Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk | (2:40) | |
| You Don't Know What Love Is | Don Raye, Gene DePaul | Dick Haymes, |
(3:14) |
| I'm Beginning to See the Light (Lyrics) | Johnny Hodges, Don George, Duke Ellington, Harry James | Kitty Kallen, |
(3:14) |
| Contrasts | Jimmy Dorsey | (2:56) | |
| Tangerine (Lyrics) | Johnny Mercer | Helen O'Connell, Bob Eberly, |
(3:09) |
| I'm Glad There Is You | Jimmy Dorsey | (2:58) | |
| Oh, Look at Me Now | Joe Bushkin, |
The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines, |
(3:14) |
| Everything Happens to Me | Tom Adair, Matt Dennis | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:11) |
| Yes, Indeed! | Sy Oliver | (3:27) | |
| Daybreak (Lyrics) | Harold Adamson, Ferde Grofé | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:10) |
CD 3
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Manhattan Serenade | Harold Adamson, |
Jo Stafford, |
(3:13) |
| Day in, Day Out | Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer | (3:34) | |
| St. James Infirmary | (6:20) | ||
| I Can't Get Started | Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin | Billie Holiday, |
(2:47) |
| Swing! Brother, Swing! (Lyrics) | Billie Holiday, |
(1:50) | |
| They Can't Take That Away from Me | Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin | (3:18) | |
| If I Could Be With You | Henry Creamer, James P. Johnson | (2:56) | |
| Nobody Knows | Lester Young, Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing | (2:46) | |
| I Want a Little Girl | Jimmy Rushing, |
(2:36) | |
| Every Day I Have the Blues (Lyrics) | Peter Chatman | Joe Williams, |
(5:26) |
| Let Me Off Uptown | Roy Eldridge, Anita O'Day, |
(3:03) | |
| After You've Gone | Henry Creamer, Turner Layton | (2:34) | |
| Rockin' Chair | Hoagy Carmichael | (2:57) | |
| That's What You Think | Anita O'Day, |
(3:12) | |
| McGhee Special | Howard McGhee | (2:47) | |
| All God's Chillun Got Rhythm | Bronislaw Kaper, Gus Kahn, Walter Jurmann | (2:29) | |
| Echoes of Harlem | Duke Ellington | Cootie Williams, |
(3:02) |
| Yearning for Love | Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish, Duke Ellington | (2:52) | |
| I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) | Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster | Ivie Anderson, |
(3:17) |
| I Don't Know What Kind of Blues I Got | Duke Ellington | Duke Ellington, Herb Jeffries | (3:12) |
| I'm Just a Lucky So-And-So | Mack David, Duke Ellington | Al Hibbler, |
(3:10) |
| Passion Flower | Billy Strayhorn | Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges | (4:27) |
| Little Rock Getaway | Joe Sullivan | Bob Crosby, Bob Zurke | (2:30) |
CD 4
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| I'm Free (What's New?) | Bob Haggart | Billy Butterfield, Bob Crosby | (2:55) |
| My Inspiration | Bob Haggart, Ray Bauduc, Nappy Lamare | Irving Fazola, Bob Crosby | (3:00) |
| Chattanooga Choo Choo (Lyrics) | Mack Gordon, Harry Warren | The Modernaires, P.J. Kelly, |
(3:24) |
| Serenade in Blue | Harry Warren, Mack Gordon | Ray Eberle, |
(3:26) |
| Sentimental Journey | Les Brown, Ben Homer, Bud Green | Doris Day, |
(3:45) |
| You're My Thrill | Lena Horne, |
(3:13) | |
| The Moose | Ralph Burns | (2:33) | |
| What a Diff'rence a Day Made | (2:59) | ||
| Tess's Torch Song [I Had a Man] | Ted Koehler, Harold Arlen | Pearl Bailey, |
(2:28) |
| Good Jelly Blues | Billy Eckstine | Billy Eckstine | (2:53) |
| I'll Wait and Pray | Sarah Vaughan, Billy Eckstine | (2:54) | |
| Lover Man | Jimmy Sherman, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Davis | Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan | (3:20) |
| Mean to Me | Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert | (2:39) | |
| In a Sentimental Mood | Irving Mills, |
Billy Eckstine | (2:33) |
| Body and Soul | Johnny Green, Frank Eyton, Edward Heyman, |
Boyd Raeburn, |
(3:12) |
| I Only Have Eyes for You | Al Dubin, Harry Warren | David Allyn, Boyd Raeburn | (3:04) |
| Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe | Harold Arlen, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg | (3:25) | |
| Everywhere | Benny Harris | Bill Harris, |
(3:06) |
| Early Autumn | Woody Herman, Ralph Burns | Stan Getz, |
(3:10) |
| A Sunday Kind of Love | (3:22) | ||
| Mingus Fingers | Charles Mingus | Charles Mingus, |
(3:05) |
| Willow Weep for Me | Ann Ronell | (3:07) | |
| All About Ronnie | (2:50) | ||
| I Can't Get Started | Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke | (2:51) |
