The Centennial Anthology

Original Release Date:  September 13, 2005

Track Listing

• 1. Fiesta in Blue
• 2. Platterbrains
• 3. One O'Clock Jump
• 4. I Struck a Match in the Dark
• 5. Every Tub
• 6. Rock-A-Bye Basie
• 7. Feather Merchant
• 8. Something New
• 9. John's Idea
• 10. Lester Leaps In
• 11. My Old Flame
• 12. Tom Thumb
• 13. Flat Foot Floogie
• 14. I'll Always Be in Love with You
• 15. Goin' to Chicago
• 16. Dance of the Gremlins
• 17. I Want a Little Girl
• 18. Every Day I Have the Blues
• 19. Stormy Monday Blues
• 20. Ain't Misbehavin'
• 21. Goin' to Chicago Blues

Credits

• Memphis Slim: Composer
• Count Basie: Organ, Piano, Composer, Soloist
• Buck Clayton: Trumpet, Soloist
• Billy Eckstine: Composer, Vocals
• Harry "Sweets" Edison: Trumpet, Soloist
• Freddie Green: Guitar
• Al Grey: Trombone
• Earl Hines: Composer
• Jo Jones: Drums
• Thad Jones: Trumpet
• Annie Ross: Vocals
• Marshall Royal: Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
• Jimmy Rushing: Vocals
• Tab Smith: Arranger, Sax (Alto)
• Buddy Tate: Sax (Tenor), Soloist
• Joe Williams: Vocals
• Lester Young: Composer, Saxophone, Sax (Tenor), Soloist
• Jimmy Mundy: Arranger
• Buster Smith: Arranger
• Walter Page: Bass, Bass (Electric)
• George Duvivier: Bass
• Don Byas: Sax (Tenor)
• Henry Coker: Trombone
• Jimmy Crawford: Drums
• Bob Crowder: Composer
• Ed Cuffee: Trombone
• Wendell Culley: Trumpet
• Vic Dickenson: Trombone
• Eddie Durham: Trombone, Arranger, Composer
• Herschel Evans: Saxophone, Sax (Tenor), Soloist
• Frank Foster: Sax (Tenor)
• Charlie Fowlkes: Sax (Baritone)
• Jewell L. Grant: Sax (Alto)
• Jon Hendricks: Vocals
• Joe Keyes: Trumpet
• Al Killian: Trumpet
• B.B. King: Vocals
• Dan Minor: Trombone
• Billy Moll: Composer
• Dick Nash: Trombone
• Sonny Payne: Drums
• Benny Powell: Trombone
• Milt Raskin: Piano
• Caughey Roberts: Saxophone, Sax (Alto)
• Eli Robinson: Trombone
• Earle Warren: Saxophone, Sax (Alto), Vocals, Soloist
• Jack Washington: Saxophone, Sax (Alto), Sax (Baritone)
• Frank Wess: Flute, Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor)
• Dicky Wells: Trombone
• Claude "Fiddler" Williams: Guitar
• Snooky Young: Trumpet
• Lynne Sherman: Vocals
• Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis: Conductor
• Athan Maroulis: Liner Notes, Compilation, Art Direction, Annotation
• Eddie Jones: Bass
• E. Jones: Bass
• Joe Newman Quartet: Trumpet
• Ed Lewis: Trumpet
• Arthur Johnston: Composer
• B.T. Green: Composer
• Sam Coslow: Composer
• Murray Mencher: Composer
• Herman Mitchell: Guitar
• Benny Morton's All Stars: Trombone
• Bobby Moore: Trumpet
• John Anderson: Trumpet
• Ken Tighe: Copy Editing
• Carl "The Truth" Smith: Trumpet
• Earl Warren: Sax (Alto)