tracks

Swing Session
Medley: Solitude/In A Sentimental Mood
Harmony In Harlem
If You Were In My Place
Mood Indigo
Theme: East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
Theme: East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
Oh Babe, Maybe Someday
Dinah's In A Jam
If Dreams Come True
Scrontch
You Went To My Head
Three Blind Mice
Solitude
Downtown Uproar
Dinah's In A Jam
On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Ev'ry Day
Azure
Carnival In Caroline
Harmony In Harlem
At Your Beck And Call
Solitude
The Gal From Joe's
Riding On A Blue Note
If Dreams Come True
Oh Babe. Maybe Someday
I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
Brimingham Breakdown
Rose Room
If Dreams Come True
It's The Dreamer In Me
Lost In Meditation
Ev'ry Day
Echoes Of Harlem
Theme: East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
Jig Walk
In A Sentimental Mood
I'm Slapping 7th. Avenue
Lost In Meditation
Albamy Home
If You Were In My Place
Prelude In C Sharp Minor
Rockin' In Rhythm
Serenade To Sweden
Rockin' In Rhythm
In A Red Little Cottage
Clip From The Cotton Club

notes

Tracks 1-1 & 2: "Saturday Night Swing Club" broadcast, May 8, 1937
Tracks 1-3 to 11: Broadcast from the Cotton Club, March 24, 1938
Tracks 1-12 to 20: Broadcast from the Cotton Club, April 18, 1938
Tracks 1-21 to 26: Broadcast from the Cotton Club, May 1, 1938
Tracks 2-1 & 2: Broadcast from the Cotton Club, May 8, 1938
Tracks 2-3 to 9: Broadcast from the Cotton Club, May 15, 1938
Tracks 2-10 to 16: Broadcast from the Cotton Club, May 22, 1938
Tracks 2-17 & 18: Broadcast from the Cotton Club, May 29, 1938
Tracks 2-19 to 21: Broadcast from the Konserthuset, Stockholm, April 29, 1939
Track 2-22 is a mpeg1 video clip showing "the activity on Lenox Avenue in Harlem and a look inside the Cotton Club" c. spring 1933

credits

Cornet – Rex Stewart
Double Bass [String Bass] – Billy Taylor,
Drums – Sonny Greer
Guitar – Fred Guy
Liner Notes – Andrew Homzy
Piano – Duke Ellington
Presenter – Paul Douglas (3)
Reeds – Barney Bigard, Harry Carney, Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwick
Reissue Producer – Carl A. Hällström
Remastered By – Björn Almstedt
Trombone – Joseph Nanton, Juan Tizol, Lawrence Brown
Trumpet – Cootie Williams, Wallace Jones
Vocals – Ivie Anderson

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Storyville Records
Copyright (c) – Storyville Records

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