Original Historic Recordings

Original Release Date:  February 22, 1996

Track Listing

• 1. Maple Leaf Rag
• 2. Sweetie Dear
• 3. Okey-Doke
• 4. When the Sun Sets Down South (Southern Sunset)
• 5. Blackstick
• 6. Weary Blues
• 7. Really the Blues
• 8. Summertime
• 9. Indian Summer
• 10. Blues in Thirds
• 11. Dear Old Southland
• 12. That's A-Plenty
• 13. Sweet Sue, Just You
• 14. Wild Man Blues
• 15. Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning
• 16. Stompy Jones
• 17. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
• 18. Swing Parade
• 19. Blues of Bechet
• 20. Blues in the Air
• 21. The Mooche
• 22. Bugle Call Rag/Ole Miss Rag

Credits

• Victor Herbert: Composer
• Sidney DeParis: Trumpet
• Earl Hines: Piano, Composer
• Scott Joplin: Composer
• Jelly Roll Morton: Composer
• Muggsy Spanier: Cornet
• Rex Stewart: Cornet
• Noble Sissle: Composer
• Teddy Bunn: Guitar
• Wellman Braud: Bass
• Tommy Ladnier: Trumpet
• Jimmy Miller: Guitar
• Jack Pettis: Composer
• Bernard Addison: Guitar
• Gus Aiken: Trumpet
• Louis Armstrong: Composer
• Baby Dodds: Drums
• Sidney Bechet: Bass, Clarinet, Piano, Composer, Drums, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Overdubs
• Big Sid Catlett: Drums
• Kenny Clarke: Drums
• Tom Delaney: Composer
• Vic Dickenson: Trombone
• Al Dubin: Composer
• Hank Duncan: Piano
• Pops Foster: Bass
• Arthur Herbert: Drums
• Manzie Johnson: Drums
• Wilbert Kirk: Drums
• Meade "Lux" Lewis: Piano
• John Lindsay: Bass
• Carmen Mastren: Guitar
• Wilson Myers: Bass
• Mezz Mezzrow: Clarinet, Composer, Sax (Tenor)
• Teddy Nixon: Trombone
• Elmer Schoebel: Composer
• Lem Johnson: Sax (Tenor)
• Billy Meyers: Composer
• Don Waterhouse: Translation
• Elmer James: Bass
• Charlie Howard: Guitar (Electric)
• Sandy Williams: Trombone
• Ray Gilbert: Composer
• Henry Goodwin: Trumpet
• Clarence Brereton: Trumpet
• Harry Brooks: Piano
• Gil White: Sax (Tenor)
• Francois Billard: Liner Notes
• Don Donaldson: Piano
• Artie Matthews: Composer
• Lew Pollack: Composer
• Pearl Delaney: Composer