Teagarden,Jack Jack Teagarden Collection 1928-52 CD

Jack Teagarden was one of the great names of jazz. In a career which spanned five decades, he established a reputation as one of the pre-eminent trombonists of his generation as well as a distinctive blues-influenced vocalist, who was equally at home as a bandleader or a sideman under another leadership. He recorded prolifically throughout his career so any collection of fifty or so tracks will only be able to take a selectively representative sample of his work through that period, which is what this set is designed to do. It comprises recordings both with bands that he led and where he was a member of another leader's ensemble, plus some co-operative ventures. Most are studio recordings, but there are one or two 'live' tracks as well. The anthology does not try to tread any new ground or bring any new creative angle to the appreciation of his work, merely to offer a thoroughly enjoyable overview of the quarter century that comprised the most important part of his career from his early small group recordings in the late '20s through the big band era to the heyday of the '50s Dixieland revival. It is a celebration of a fine and versatile musician working alongside his peers in a medium of which he had complete command.

1. She's a Great Great Girl 2. Makin' Friends 3. I'm Gonna Stomp Mr Henry Lee 4. Knockin' a Jug 5. My Kinda Love 6. Dinah 7. Never Had a Reason to Believe in You 8. Ridin' But Walkin' 9. Beale Street Blues 10. You Rascal You 11. After You've Gone 12. Two Tickets to Georgia 13. Somebody Stole Gabriel's Horn 14. Plantation Moods 15. Shake Your Hips 16. I Got a Right to Sing the Blues 17. Texas Tea Party 18. A Hundred Years from Today 19. Fare Thee Well to Harlem 20. Junk Man 21. Riverboat Shuffle 22. Serenade to a Shylock 23. Tiger Rag 24. I Swung the Election 25. Wolverine Blues 26. Swingin' on the Teagarden Gate 27. Jack Hits the Road 28. The Big Eight Blues 29. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen 30. Casanova's Lament 31. The Blues 32. Aunt Hagar's Blues 33. Basin Street Blues 34. Shine 35. Chinatown My Chinatown 36. Royal Garden Blues 37. East of the Sun 38. China Boy 39. If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight 40. Big T Blues 41. Somebody Loves Me 42. King Porter Stomp 43. Hindustan 44. St Louis Blues 45. St James Infirmary 46. Lover 47. Mighty Lak' a Rose