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Esquire Jazz All Stars - Esquire Jazz Concert - Metropolitan Opera House 18 January 1944

Esquire Jazz All Stars - Esquire Jazz Concert - Metropolitan Opera House 18 January 1944

Musician: Esquire Jazz All Stars
Album title: Esquire Jazz Concert - Metropolitan Opera House 18 January 1944
Released: 1998
Country: Czech Republic
Size MP3 version: 1246 mb
Size APE version: 1899 mb
Size WMA version: 1688 mb
Rating ✫: 4.9
Votes: 604
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Genre: Jazz

Esquire Jazz All Stars - Esquire Jazz Concert - Metropolitan Opera House 18 January 1944


Tracklist

1-1 Esquire Blues 5:06
1-2 Mop Mop 4:51
1-3 Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me 3:46
1-4 I Love My Man 4:18
1-5 I Can't Give You Anything But Love 3:41
1-6 I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues 3:52
1-7 Sweet Lorraine 3:37
1-8 I Got The Rhythm 9:08
1-9 The Blues 3:09
1-10 We All Drink "Coca Cola" 1:26
1-11 Esquire Bounce 2:00
1-12 Rockin' Chair 3:30
1-13 Basin Street Blues 4:44
1-14 I'll Get By 1:44
1-15 Tea For Two 4:19
2-1 Back O'Town Blues 3:38
2-2 Muskrat Ramble 2:45
2-3 Buck Jumpin' 3:00
2-4 Stompin At The Savoy 3:24
2-5 For Bass Faces Only 5:31
2-6 My Ideal 3:26
2-7 Rose Room 5:34
2-8 I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling 3:24
2-9 More Than You Know 3:58
2-10 Squeeze Me 2:50
2-11 Honeysuckle Rose 1:51
2-12 Flying Home 12:26
2-13 Jammin' The Vibes 4:38
2-14 Star Spangled Banner 1:42

Credits

  • Bass – Oscar Pettiford
  • Clarinet – Barney Bigard
  • Drums – Sidney Catlett
  • Guitar – Al Casey
  • Piano – Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson
  • Saxophone [Tenor] – Coleman Hawkins
  • Trumpet – Roy Eldridge
  • Vibraphone [Vibes] – Lionel Hampton
  • Vocals – Billie Holiday, Mildred Bailey
  • Vocals, Trombone – Jack Teagarden
  • Vocals, Trumpet – Louis Armstrong
  • Xylophone – Red Norvo

Notes

OSA
(P) 1998

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
ARJ/LP 15006 Various Metropolitan Opera House Jam Session (January 18, 1944) ‎(LP) Ariston ARJ/LP 15006 Italy 1971
ALBUM 269 Various The Historical Jam Session ‎(2xLP) Disques Festival ALBUM 269 France 1977
8 55 806 Various Esquire-Metropolitan Opera House Jam Session 1944 ‎(LP) AMIGA 8 55 806 German Democratic Republic (GDR) 1981
SM 3906/2 Esquire All Stars Esquire Jazz Concert - Metropolitan Opera House N.Y.C. 13 January 1944 ‎(2xLP, Gat) Joker , International Joker Production SM 3906/2 Italy 1981
CD 53035 Esquire All Stars Esquire Jazz Concert ‎(CD, Comp) Giants Of Jazz CD 53035 Italy 1990

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This historic concert, which among other things includes some of Billie's best singing, indeed constituted the high-water mark in pre-bop jazz. Unfortunately, every version issued commercially seems to butcher the order of the songs. I don't have the original program, but after careful listening it seems to me that most of the songs were on a non-broadcast program hosted by Leonard Feather, and only a few (6, including the intro mislabeled "We All Drink Coca-Cola") were included in an AFRS broadcast that immediately followed. The AFRS announcer's voice is unmistakably different from Feather's, and it's reasonable to think that the songs they broadcast to a national audience would be the less adventurous ones; they are the last 5 songs on CD 1. By carefully listening to the applause at the end of each track, I've rearranged the songs in my collection into what I think is a more accurate approximation of what was actually heard that night (including Benny Goodman's "Rachel's Dream" which apparently functioned as an intermission piece and is not included in this version). Again, I don't know for sure, but it seems to me that the national anthem would have been played at the start of the concert, not the end, and while far from the best performance in the bunch, it is tremendously entertaining to hear Louis having a go at it. I can post my track order if anyone's interested.